 Hell yeah, what's up guys, this is Chris Pike, my friends, call me Big C. Back in action today, I'm back in HitFilm Express, and I'm continuing my series where I show you how to be the best video editor you know. And in this one, I'm going to show you how to green screen footage. And not only am I going to show you how to green screen, I'm going to show you how to green screen really difficult, badly lit footage. Footage that, you know, maybe you're just, you don't have a green screen, you use a, just a green thing in the background, a green piece of paper or something like that. And you don't have three point lighting, don't worry about it. I'm going to show you how to green screen hard footage and easy footage. What am I talking about? Well, here's, here's a green screen that I did of this lady here. This is just stock footage. On the left side, you'll see her and you'll see here at the edges that it's very poorly lit. There's creases in the green screen as you can expect. It's, it's not studio quality. No big deal. Let's get going. So I'm just going to go ahead and delete all this and let's start from scratch. But before I do that, I'm going to go to my movies here and I'm going to bring in a well lit video green screen. So in this one, I'm going to go ahead and show you how to make green screen for well lit footage. And then we'll go into the difficult stuff. So if it's well lit footage, just left click on it, drag it into the timeline just like that. Go ahead and presto. We got this lady doing whatever she's doing, making hand gestures. She's a TikToker. Who gives a darn? All right, cool. Next thing you do is you go into effects and under effects, just type in green and they've done a hell of a job. It's called green screen key. It's not an ultra key or any of those other things in other software. They named it correctly green screen key. Here we go. Chroma key, all those other things. Drag and drop it onto video track one. And that is almost it. Now, is it working? Let's take a look. I didn't have to touch any buttons. That's what's amazing about this green screen key if you have well lit footage is I'm just going to move this video to video track two like I did. And then I'm going to put this picture in behind it so we can see what it looks like. OK, there she is. And I hit that's it. There is a chance that that is all you need to know to create a good green screen. So keep that in mind. That is option one. But we're going to show you how to green screen more difficult footage while I got you here. So this footage, not so good. I'm going to drag and drop it. I'm going to drag and drop it into video track two. And I'm going to reset it. Always click yes and presto. Here we go. Now, there's an issue with it. It's not well lit, like I said, and there's going to need some work. So we're going to go into the effects. We're going to grab green screen key again, same thing. Drag and drop it on top. But this time that doesn't look too good because obviously it's not well lit. So what are we going to do? We're going to go now into the controls panel and we're going to make some changes. There's not a whole lot of stuff you can do here. But watch this, I'm going to change them in up to 0.95. And you see how it's slowly getting rid of the background. It's obviously leaving some issues here at the corners. But we're going to get to that. I'm going to keep the max at 0.95. But you will notice that if you jack it up, you can get rid of some of that background issue. So 0.95, it's up. I'm going to increase the gamma to, no, I'm going to decrease. A part of me to about 0.65. That's what I meant to say. That's the opposite of decrease, increase. And I'm going to just, yeah, OK. So point, basically, where do we get it? To 0.95, 0.95. There we go. But here, I'm going to go ahead and play it. And it looks fine. But when you really look at it, if I bring in a background image, like I did with the first one, I'm going to pull this out and extend it out. And now watch. You'll see all that sparkling on the edges. That is a big, big issue for some people. Some people don't mind it. Some people do. To get rid of that sparkle, let's go back into controls. Let's go back to video track 2, which is the one, the video track. And now watch this. Here's where it gets interesting. If we increase the choke a little bit, just to 1. But here, watch this. When we move the smooth from 3 to like, let's go to 40, something like that. Now watch. That issue has been solved. We have gotten rid of all of that sparkly stuff. And this looks like a pretty good green screen. If you hit play over here, that looks all right. Now we hit play on this here. It looks not too bad. There are some small issues. If you look at the hair, for example, the hair is not as well done as I would have liked. But this is how you do it, guys. Inside HitFilm Express for free. Thanks for watching. A ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.