As a person with limited video editing experience trying to stumble his way through Final Cut, you made this soooooo simple and I learned a ton! thank u
This video is so great! Not only you showed the Final Cut Pro tools, but also the general chroma-key techniques and the multi-cam workflow. I wish you had more advanced/workflow Final Cut Pro tutorials.
Finally have my green screen and new lighting after doing video designing with FCPro for years! Glad to find you here !! Thanks for making it easy to follow. oh and, you just encouraged me to video my talk at two angles being I do have two cameras!!
Wow, this is super comprehensive and helpful! I'm producing an entire online course with green-screen, which I've not done before, and this video is answering all my questions. None of the other videos I've watched compare. Thanks, Nicholas! Subscribed!
@@creativegreats what do you mean how, I can’t make a tutorial for you but if you’re new to video editing, basically it’s like selecting a part of the footage and with color wheels trying to change the color of that part
@@creativegreats search a tutorial on rotoscoping, every editing program should have a “lasso tool” for video, that you can use to select a part of the video and bring to a separate layer in which you can apply color correction or overlap with another video, I can’t give a step by step explanation through a youtube comment but you’ll find a lot of tutorials on the internet. Hope it was useful
Thanks for your insight nicholas. Can you share the camera and settings you're using? 8 bit? 10 bit? I'm assuming you're shooting around 5.6 f-stop? Thanks in advance!
I very recently have started shooting in 10bit on my a7iv and a7siii, but the ZV-E10 is limited to 8-bit, so if that camera is in the works it's all 8-bit. I do very little color correction anyway, I try to get it the way I want it to look in camera just to make editing easier so there's barely any benefit to shooting 10bit. And youre close! I shot the green screen portions at f4 - just because I love the look I get with HLG3 and as such I can use base ISO 100 for like ZERO noise as long as theres enough light and the smaller the aperture the higher the ISO the more noise.
@@NicholasJamesJohnson Hey Nicholas thanks for the quick response. I shoot on a Canon C 100 mark II obviously it's only 8 bit but I have the luxury of lots of light and a very tight green screen and some lens options. That said as you mentioned distance is a key and keeping spill from the subject. I can only extend my distance about 5 feet… All of that said I think with AI coming none of this may be a concern… We're so close to technological perfection this all may be mute right? Keep up the nice work and thanks again for the quick response.
@@MB-cr6xb I think youre right about AI.. I think were standing at the bottom of a very steep exponential curve thats probably going to make all of what were doing now look like developing film in a dark-room by hand!
I've used iMovie for a long time now and finally got myself Final Cut Pro and man is it handy and quite the upgrade! But I'm still getting used to the program so theres things I cant find on my own so thanks for the tip!
Thank you very much; now I’am looking at the kit in your description comment. However a question; I want to order one kit and because the size of the backdrop green and black screen are to small for my needs. Now there is a second kit that has just the green screen, but am not sure if it is exact the color green. Does it need to be the exact same color? Can FinalCutPro work with that?
@@rvamerongen the color of green is not important at all. It could be pink! When you select the green in Final Cut you’re just telling it to cut out the color you selected.
@@NicholasJamesJohnson Thank you for answering my question. However not sure if we talk about the same; its likely that I need two screens next of each other because one is to small. So there should be two sheets of green (or pink). My question is that probably due to sizing I need two green screens as one background. My question is do both green background screens have to be exactly the same green; or can there be a certain amount of deviation in the green color; and to what extent can I control that in FCP? taken to the extreme can mint glossy green and against traffic light matt dark green be used without any issues? Can I select in FCP a range of greens?
@@rvamerongen OHHHHHH I understand now. Yes, you can use two greens that don’t match. You have the option in the chroma key menus to drag a box around multiple areas in your background, telling the computer which colors to consider invisible. Yes. Your plan of two screens that don’t match perfectly will work just fine.
I am impressed with your content considering you may have only started a You Tube channel more recently. Great tips that I will be using!! I always wondered how they did those moving starfields on Trek review channels, now I know.
You've just earned a subscriber - excellent video! In case it helps with ideas, in addition to FCPX, I'm also interested in Motion and Pixelmator Pro tutorials and maybe others will be too!
Thank you for getting to the information and I didn’t have to watch a cringe influencer Vlog in the beginning of a tutorial video. Very informative and I liked and subscribed after you mentioned the FCPX Multicam setup. Thank you for that, love your tutorial videos!
Hello. When I want to remove the green background behind the video I shot in my studio, the Keyer plugin erases everything except me. That is, it erases other colors except green, even half of my body. Do you know why?
I need more context. Youre saying you shot in your studio WITH a green screen behind you, but final cut pro erased all colors but NOT the green colors? So you had a green wall and a cut out of you in the final shot?
These backgrounds I had made on MidJourney. Google search that, or Doll-E 2, and you'll need to prompt an AI to make the backgrounds that you'd like. It takes some trial and error.
With better planning.. Check the shot before recording and if you see an obviously green reflection off of anything - it's going to be sparkly. You can either leave it there and do a 'mask' around it in final cut pro so its not part of the green screen - or you can just turn it a bit or shove it off screen or find some way to be clever and not have a green reflection. Even something like a tiny battery powered light to put more light onto it would do.
Good note - I will try to treat it as if Im talking directly to someone, rather than just getting everything out of my head as fast as possible! Thank you!
Are you talking about my overabundance of j-cuts, where it seems like I basically never take a breath? I suppose I could probably benefit by slowing it down a bit.
I don't think I've learned as much in 10 minutes from any video I've ever watched. Now, to go back and pause every five seconds. 😄
As a person with limited video editing experience trying to stumble his way through Final Cut, you made this soooooo simple and I learned a ton! thank u
I've watched so many videos that should've been this informative and concise. You made this seem a lot less intimidating and easy! THANK YOU!
This video is so great!
Not only you showed the Final Cut Pro tools, but also the general chroma-key techniques and the multi-cam workflow.
I wish you had more advanced/workflow Final Cut Pro tutorials.
Nicholas thank you for the simple step by step..I'm going to try it today! Best, Steven
Hilariously instructive! Thank you!
Lots of immediately useful content needed for my initial green screen productions. Saved me a ton of time. Thank you.
Finally have my green screen and new lighting after doing video designing with FCPro for years! Glad to find you here !! Thanks for making it easy to follow. oh and, you just encouraged me to video my talk at two angles being I do have two cameras!!
EXCELLENT class on green screen, proper lighting and how to use it on Final Cut thank you
Wow, this is super comprehensive and helpful! I'm producing an entire online course with green-screen, which I've not done before, and this video is answering all my questions. None of the other videos I've watched compare. Thanks, Nicholas! Subscribed!
Realy impressive, that was the most inclusive green screen video on youtube. Thanks to your effort.
I really don’t think I need to watch another video. This was excellent. Thank you so much.
One of the best videos on this topic. this derives a million views
Awesome, great video, subscribed. Thank you.
I learned so much in this video. Thank you!!!
Me tooooo❤
Super helpful thanks
Huge help ! Thanks so much ! Love your authenticity & straight upness
Thank you!!! It’s so helpful
You just won a new subscriber, honestly this video is so helpful!
Dude! Amazing job.
At 2:05 when you crop the edges out in post, how would you do that on Final Cut Pro?? Thank you so much for this video!
Thank you! This is Exactly what I need to learn! Wonderful lesson :)
Absolutely fantastic video! Thanks for posting!
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Thank you for this tutorial!
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Great work !
for the laptop you could just roto it out and color correct it to make it match
How ?
@@creativegreats what do you mean how, I can’t make a tutorial for you but if you’re new to video editing, basically it’s like selecting a part of the footage and with color wheels trying to change the color of that part
@@AlexdAviator how do you select a part ? Give me an example?
@@creativegreats search a tutorial on rotoscoping, every editing program should have a “lasso tool” for video, that you can use to select a part of the video and bring to a separate layer in which you can apply color correction or overlap with another video, I can’t give a step by step explanation through a youtube comment but you’ll find a lot of tutorials on the internet. Hope it was useful
youre really good at this
ur energy man.... i am subbing:)
Thank you :-)
love this! thank you! Coming off of Adobe Premiere so this was great!
thank so much, best video about green screen.
Dang! Thanks!!!
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Yo this is awesome, thank you.
bro, that was super solid. thank you. I hope my videos are as helpful as this was. subscribed and liked! 👊 not all heroes wear capes
Nice video! Will try this out
yeah this is an excellent video, i super thank you.
Thank you - I see youre using green screenin type stuff a fair bit in your music videos!
hell yeah this video really helped me
Good stuff!
Thanks for your insight nicholas. Can you share the camera and settings you're using? 8 bit? 10 bit? I'm assuming you're shooting around 5.6 f-stop? Thanks in advance!
I very recently have started shooting in 10bit on my a7iv and a7siii, but the ZV-E10 is limited to 8-bit, so if that camera is in the works it's all 8-bit. I do very little color correction anyway, I try to get it the way I want it to look in camera just to make editing easier so there's barely any benefit to shooting 10bit. And youre close! I shot the green screen portions at f4 - just because I love the look I get with HLG3 and as such I can use base ISO 100 for like ZERO noise as long as theres enough light and the smaller the aperture the higher the ISO the more noise.
@@NicholasJamesJohnson Hey Nicholas thanks for the quick response. I shoot on a Canon C 100 mark II obviously it's only 8 bit but I have the luxury of lots of light and a very tight green screen and some lens options. That said as you mentioned distance is a key and keeping spill from the subject. I can only extend my distance about 5 feet… All of that said I think with AI coming none of this may be a concern… We're so close to technological perfection this all may be mute right? Keep up the nice work and thanks again for the quick response.
@@MB-cr6xb I think youre right about AI.. I think were standing at the bottom of a very steep exponential curve thats probably going to make all of what were doing now look like developing film in a dark-room by hand!
Great video dude
I've used iMovie for a long time now and finally got myself Final Cut Pro and man is it handy and quite the upgrade! But I'm still getting used to the program so theres things I cant find on my own so thanks for the tip!
Glad to help! Final Cut can be a little daunting at first when switching from iMovie, but MAN is it worth it!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! SUBBED 🌊
Thank you very much; now I’am looking at the kit in your description comment. However a question; I want to order one kit and because the size of the backdrop green and black screen are to small for my needs. Now there is a second kit that has just the green screen, but am not sure if it is exact the color green. Does it need to be the exact same color? Can FinalCutPro work with that?
@@rvamerongen the color of green is not important at all. It could be pink! When you select the green in Final Cut you’re just telling it to cut out the color you selected.
@@NicholasJamesJohnson Thank you for answering my question. However not sure if we talk about the same; its likely that I need two screens next of each other because one is to small. So there should be two sheets of green (or pink). My question is that probably due to sizing I need two green screens as one background. My question is do both green background screens have to be exactly the same green; or can there be a certain amount of deviation in the green color; and to what extent can I control that in FCP? taken to the extreme can mint glossy green and against traffic light matt dark green be used without any issues? Can I select in FCP a range of greens?
@@rvamerongen OHHHHHH I understand now. Yes, you can use two greens that don’t match. You have the option in the chroma key menus to drag a box around multiple areas in your background, telling the computer which colors to consider invisible. Yes. Your plan of two screens that don’t match perfectly will work just fine.
@@NicholasJamesJohnson Top and thank you.
I am impressed with your content considering you may have only started a You Tube channel more recently. Great tips that I will be using!! I always wondered how they did those moving starfields on Trek review channels, now I know.
Wow what an incredible video Nicholas! Subbed and can't wait to see more :)
Thanks! I'm actually heading to CES Vegas next week - surely something cool will come out of that show!
great video bro
What an amazing video, respect sir 🫡 Thanks a lot ❤
Thanks man 🎉
Which button do you push?
You've just earned a subscriber - excellent video! In case it helps with ideas, in addition to FCPX, I'm also interested in Motion and Pixelmator Pro tutorials and maybe others will be too!
Excellent suggestion, I do use motion a bit, I’d be happy to share what I know!
@@NicholasJamesJohnson I shared this video out
@@NicholasJamesJohnson great you want to do a video and tag me I will share
@@NicholasJamesJohnson make that 2 .. LOL Keep producing brother this helped alot cant wait to give it a try
I have been editing like a caveman on FCP until this. thanks!
strong video, thank you, keep it going!
This was great. Now I want a green screen lol
Brilliant! Where did you get the backgrounds from in the AI program??
The AI literally creates the art! Look up 'Mid-Journey AI' or openai.com/dall-e-2/
@@NicholasJamesJohnson Amazing - I feel really old now....
@@redfacilities hahaha, yeah.. Wild future we're living in
a recommendation,add a hair light. the light would be behind you, preferably high shining down on your desk
should mention the light should have a cone or grid, high on the green screen pointing at your back
Another new sub, great content
Thank you for getting to the information and I didn’t have to watch a cringe influencer Vlog in the beginning of a tutorial video.
Very informative and I liked and subscribed after you mentioned the FCPX Multicam setup. Thank you for that, love your tutorial videos!
haha, thank you! And yep - straight to business for me.. I know none of you want to see my morning routine.
bro you deserve 10M $ Room with 10M Subscribers❤❤
Thank you so much
great video
Hello. When I want to remove the green background behind the video I shot in my studio, the Keyer plugin erases everything except me. That is, it erases other colors except green, even half of my body. Do you know why?
I need more context. Youre saying you shot in your studio WITH a green screen behind you, but final cut pro erased all colors but NOT the green colors? So you had a green wall and a cut out of you in the final shot?
Great video but that particle on the lens/sensor of your main camera man…. driving me nuts haha
Hahaha, everything got REAL dirty at Daytona.. I promise to clean all sensors before the next video:)
What computer do you use for editin?
I use a MacBook Pro M1 Max. I can’t believe this thing is two generations behind, it’s still basically perfect for editing.
useful content
video starts at 5:07. you're welcome.
I enjoyed the entire video. If you have ADHD then click his time stamp. Lots of helpful tips for beginners that will be lost but you will get to skip…
how can I download these backgrounds from deferent angles
These backgrounds I had made on MidJourney. Google search that, or Doll-E 2, and you'll need to prompt an AI to make the backgrounds that you'd like. It takes some trial and error.
How do u get rid of the sparkly laptop before going into post ?
With better planning.. Check the shot before recording and if you see an obviously green reflection off of anything - it's going to be sparkly. You can either leave it there and do a 'mask' around it in final cut pro so its not part of the green screen - or you can just turn it a bit or shove it off screen or find some way to be clever and not have a green reflection. Even something like a tiny battery powered light to put more light onto it would do.
@@NicholasJamesJohnson is lack of lighting what makes it sparkly?
new sub! thank you!
Thanks Becca! Getting in on the ground floor, haha!
TY!
Going a bit too fast in your explanations.
Good note - I will try to treat it as if Im talking directly to someone, rather than just getting everything out of my head as fast as possible! Thank you!
@@NicholasJamesJohnson thank you for your nice answer (it'll help "slow folks" like me)
Why oh why edit the audio so tightly...spoils the tutorial...sorry...!
Are you talking about my overabundance of j-cuts, where it seems like I basically never take a breath? I suppose I could probably benefit by slowing it down a bit.
great video , subscribed
thanks so much