A couple of tips from an old (and I mean old) editor. I've never seen anyone in a tutorial say anything about the importance of the distance between your talent and the green screen. Although not always possible - and when it is, it requires a really large green screen - the more distance you can put between your talent and your screen, the less spill you get (like on "your" right arm - even after you adjusted your green background). The other important trick is even lighting. This is generally not going to come from cheap lights. You need banks of long lights. If your camera has a waveform monitor, point your camera at the green screen - no talent - turn on your cameras waveform and adjust your lights until you get the line representing green to be as flat and even as you can get it. This mean your green screen is lit evenly which results in better keys. If you're limited with lights, concentrate on the area around your talent. Remember you can garbage matte out any lights showing in the screen provided your talent doesn't cover it at some point during the shoot. Lastly, don't forget to color correct your footage to match the background. Part of "selling" the effect is to make the talent "look" like they belong there. If the background has shadows that go one way and the talent is lit opposite, you need a different background. Choosing the background before the shoot (not always possible) will dictate the lighting for your talent. Happy Keying!
agreed - in our studio we have Kino Flo lights illuminating the background and lite panels for the talent. Kino Flos don't travel easily but even lighting is crucial
@@relaxation-connection I LOVE KINOs! Too pricey for my current employer but we used a less expensive version that is giving us really good even lighting and we're getting pretty impressive keys. I spec'd them for two recent corporate studios I built but nothing beats Kino Flo in my experience.
TYSM, i just watched 10 different videos for greenscreen but the only usefull one was this! Tysm, you just saved a feew thousands of fotos for my stop motions!
Your step-by-step guide on fixing green screens in Premiere Pro is a lifesaver. You explained it so clearly, and your friendly demeanor made it enjoyable to watch. Now, I can confidently work on my videos without worrying about a messy green screen. Keep these helpful tutorials coming! 😊👍
I've been doing green screen projects all year and just stumbled on this... never was the best at lighting or using the ultra key, but this makes my newest clip look top notch! I've saved this to a playlist for easy reference, expect many more views from me until I memorize this formula! YOU THE MAN!!!
Hey awesome man, glad it helps! Just a little extra tip for you, if you use the exact same lighting every single time, them what you can do is once you create your color corrections, you can save it as an effect and you can just apply it to all future clips. It might require a few touch ups to make it perfect, but will be really fast and save a lot of time!
every other video I've seen about green screen removal just assume I have perfect green screen. your video is perfect for what I was looking for. thank you
I just want to say thanks for this method, I've been searching around for a way to clean up my less than ideal green screen footage and this was by far the best yet. It works way better than anything I've yet found online!
i few months ago i saw a similar tutorial, but it was really complicated, you explain the exact same but super straight forward and clear, thank you ver much
dude, you're a champ for this. First time doing green screen I positioned the lights way too close to the screen. Had a huge glare that made it look foggy. This took care of it immediately. Thank you!
i stopped using greenscreen because (1) im only using cheap lighting, and (2) keying uneven lighted greenscreen is too difficult for someone who's still trying to learn the basics. ive watched a tutorial where he also used the dropper with the minus sign, but yours (this video) is a lot easier to follow. i love it. new sub here for more premiere pro tutorials.
You're a genius, we were taught to rotoscope and use that keylight thing in after effects😭 and same for premiere the key thingy😭 this is a MUCH quicker and better way to do it , saved me HOURS and the results from this colour picking gives a much crisper edge results than all those key things!! ty!!
OMG this was such a great tutorial! It was really easy to follow and well explained. I’ve been having some issues with removing my green screen and now I’m definitely gonna try this out. Thank you so much! :)
Thank you. After keying out the green. I'm getting an abormality. When I place a photo that contains certain colors, (not green color) behind the subjects. ( Two person interview). Graining parts of the keyed out green appear on the program monitor but if I place another photo with different colors, the graininess doesn'nt show.I tried the different tools in ultra key but I'm not having any luck removing it.
Oh my god! Thank you so so much Schrogs! You have no idea how much this video has helped me :-). I never knew you could remove even such a trashy looking green screen with just a few setting tweaks (my client has such a green screen and I've been somehow managing with it till now)!!!! He's gonna be so happy! THanks love you mate❤❤
Id like to thank you for the content, I've been wondering around TH-cam to find the solution for a choppy green screen video. I'm new to editing so it was a lifesaver. Thanks again.
A couple of more tips that can help those problem keys. If you adjust your color sliders and start getting rid one green area but the color starts reversing elsewhere in another, you can add a second Lumetri color effect to fine tune those problem areas. What happens if you have a woman with really curly hair and you get the hair dialed in but when you try adjusting for the clothes, the hair gets messed up. The trick: Unlink your video from the audio track, duplicate the video layer, add ultra key to the second layer and dial in the key for the hair on one layer and the clothes on the other. Now use the crop with a fairly soft feather on both layers. Overlap the two soft crop effects so you get the best part from each layer married together. Last tip. You can use a similar trick if your talent shows up with a green tie - happens on St. Patty's day some times. Dupe the video layer as above and put a crop around the tie so you're basically adding a non keyed video layer (cropped) over the keyed layer. You'll need to play through the video and either adjust the crop or keyframe it if the talent moves outside your cropped area. Add some feather to insure the crop isn't visible and you're good to go. Be sure you do any color adjustments prior to duplicating the layer so you aren't cutting and pasting color adjustments. Remember what's important is the final product looks as professional as you can make it, how you get there isn't as important. If you knew how many hacks are done in movies and TV shows you'd laugh. Back in the days of the original StarTrek, the elevator doors were opened and closed by two guys in t-shirts kneeling just out of camera. Again, what's important is selling the effect - not how you do it. Happy keying.
Thank you so much for this. I filmed a miniature with a green screen - I used a non-green support device to give the miniature a sense of elevation. For days I've been trying to figure out how to KEY out this non-green color. Your explanation, plus a bit of tweeking with the lighting, and I was able to get a perfectly clean shape green screen for the miniature. I'll be using a green support device from now on. Again, thank you.
my video was looking weird in the edit and i got bummed out so looked to youtube for help found your video and learned what i needed to do to and then applied the settings best for my video and bro it looks great so thank you so much, i used some spill suppression as well and some matte clean up, which are all under effects control for ultra key effect, again thanks a lot
I think thats caused by the "luma" setting under the ultra key. If that doesnt remove it, just mess with all of the ultra key settings under there and see what makes it look better! Might take a bit more time but I don't have a good answer for this sadly
Your low quality green screen looks like mine on its best day - I never knew one piece of 'same colour' material can look so many shades! This video has helped me recover a couple of videos I thought I might have to re-film, so thanks for that.
Thank you so much for this solution, I was struggling with one of the footage with the same issue.I hope I could get some more exciting tuts on your channel.. Please share some hacks om color grading and audio cleaning also thanks
Thanks so much Cheese! I appreciate it man :D I'm working on series right now to teach everyone how to stream and get into youtube so this is just one part of it!
A couple of tips from an old (and I mean old) editor. I've never seen anyone in a tutorial say anything about the importance of the distance between your talent and the green screen. Although not always possible - and when it is, it requires a really large green screen - the more distance you can put between your talent and your screen, the less spill you get (like on "your" right arm - even after you adjusted your green background). The other important trick is even lighting. This is generally not going to come from cheap lights. You need banks of long lights. If your camera has a waveform monitor, point your camera at the green screen - no talent - turn on your cameras waveform and adjust your lights until you get the line representing green to be as flat and even as you can get it. This mean your green screen is lit evenly which results in better keys. If you're limited with lights, concentrate on the area around your talent. Remember you can garbage matte out any lights showing in the screen provided your talent doesn't cover it at some point during the shoot. Lastly, don't forget to color correct your footage to match the background. Part of "selling" the effect is to make the talent "look" like they belong there. If the background has shadows that go one way and the talent is lit opposite, you need a different background. Choosing the background before the shoot (not always possible) will dictate the lighting for your talent. Happy Keying!
Wow amazing information!! This would definitely take it to the next level! I'll pin for people to see
@@Schrogs TY!
agreed - in our studio we have Kino Flo lights illuminating the background and lite panels for the talent. Kino Flos don't travel easily but even lighting is crucial
@@relaxation-connection I LOVE KINOs! Too pricey for my current employer but we used a less expensive version that is giving us really good even lighting and we're getting pretty impressive keys. I spec'd them for two recent corporate studios I built but nothing beats Kino Flo in my experience.
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TYSM, i just watched 10 different videos for greenscreen but the only usefull one was this! Tysm, you just saved a feew thousands of fotos for my stop motions!
Your step-by-step guide on fixing green screens in Premiere Pro is a lifesaver. You explained it so clearly, and your friendly demeanor made it enjoyable to watch. Now, I can confidently work on my videos without worrying about a messy green screen. Keep these helpful tutorials coming! 😊👍
INSANELY useful and easy to follow tutorial, man. You're a hero to every diy poverty green screen owner lol.
I've been doing green screen projects all year and just stumbled on this... never was the best at lighting or using the ultra key, but this makes my newest clip look top notch! I've saved this to a playlist for easy reference, expect many more views from me until I memorize this formula! YOU THE MAN!!!
Hey awesome man, glad it helps! Just a little extra tip for you, if you use the exact same lighting every single time, them what you can do is once you create your color corrections, you can save it as an effect and you can just apply it to all future clips. It might require a few touch ups to make it perfect, but will be really fast and save a lot of time!
every other video I've seen about green screen removal just assume I have perfect green screen. your video is perfect for what I was looking for. thank you
Thanks mahdi :) glad it helped :)
I just want to say thanks for this method, I've been searching around for a way to clean up my less than ideal green screen footage and this was by far the best yet. It works way better than anything I've yet found online!
my brother in christ, i looked from everything to rotoscopy to ultra keying, but all i needed was this 7 minute video. many thanks
You don't know how much this helped me as a Japanese TH-camr...... THANK YOU SO MUCH!
1 more subscription from me!
The only legend didn't talk about lightning and fixed this issue splendidly. Thanks bro you are champ
i few months ago i saw a similar tutorial, but it was really complicated, you explain the exact same but super straight forward and clear, thank you ver much
dude, you're a champ for this. First time doing green screen I positioned the lights way too close to the screen. Had a huge glare that made it look foggy. This took care of it immediately. Thank you!
i stopped using greenscreen because (1) im only using cheap lighting, and (2) keying uneven lighted greenscreen is too difficult for someone who's still trying to learn the basics. ive watched a tutorial where he also used the dropper with the minus sign, but yours (this video) is a lot easier to follow. i love it. new sub here for more premiere pro tutorials.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching:)
Among all the tutorials about green screen. I think this one is the most helpful. Thanks for the help.
Really helpful for my latest music video. Thanks!
bro, I don't have any word to explain my feeling know thank you so much you 'are genius
Perfect tutorials i ever seen about greenscreen removal
Thanks John!
This is one of the most valuable tutorials I have experienced to help me with my editing. Thank you!!
You're a genius, we were taught to rotoscope and use that keylight thing in after effects😭 and same for premiere the key thingy😭 this is a MUCH quicker and better way to do it , saved me HOURS and the results from this colour picking gives a much crisper edge results than all those key things!! ty!!
OMG this was such a great tutorial! It was really easy to follow and well explained. I’ve been having some issues with removing my green screen and now I’m definitely gonna try this out. Thank you so much! :)
If you HOLD the mouse button while eye dropping you can drag and get multiple selections at once. I just installed and found that out by accident!
It was apparently an unintended feature because whenever I do it now my projects crash.....do not do!
Ah dang I was gonna say that's amazing feature! Oh well lol!!
Can't wait to try this later.. 👍🏻
Very helpful. Thanks
I had seen alot of videos about this but no one literally no one teach this technique man u rocked u really rocked🎉
Thank you for this amazing tutorial! I wouldn't have been able to salvage a part of my media practical exam without this!
I still revert back to this for reference. Thank you so much for sharing this info. You Rock!!
today i follow your instructions and finally got the result what i want. thanks a lot buddy, thank you so much..keep shining
Bro you just changed my life. I could never get my green screed to look good in premiere. This is a game changer
very informative video, thank you.
Thanks schorgs this helps a lot
Thanks MrChocolate!!!! Glad it helps man!!!
Great video. Very clearly explained and helped me with some supplied footage where natural lighting changed several stops throughout the shoot!
Fantastic video.Really helpful.Thanks a lot bro.
yooo schrogs amazing video my man! explained very well!
Thanks Wolfiez!
You are a legend. I have been searching for this for years. Well done man!!
Thanks man glad it helped!
Thank you for this great tip on fixing the Green Screen in Premiere Pro. Was looking for a good solution. You are the Man.
Thank you. After keying out the green. I'm getting an abormality. When I place a photo that contains certain colors, (not green color) behind the subjects. ( Two person interview). Graining parts of the keyed out green appear on the program monitor but if I place another photo with different colors, the graininess doesn'nt show.I tried the different tools in ultra key but I'm not having any luck removing it.
Thanks for sharing; this is probably THE BEST video on Green Screen so far!
It's years later and this helped me out big time. Thank you.
I do not know how to thank you. You saved my life with green screen. God bless you.
Thank you so much for sharing skill!That looks promising! Will try it out🙌
Really helpful video, I come back to it every time I do greenscreen work. Thanks!
Incredible tutorial. Will level up my green screen game! Never knew Premiere Pro could do this!
Hi bro ♥ ♥
Thank you so much to share this method I was very tired to do this but after watching your video I can change my background quickly.
Really Good Sir😃😊👍👍👍
Oh my god! Thank you so so much Schrogs!
You have no idea how much this video has helped me :-).
I never knew you could remove even such a trashy looking green screen with just a few setting tweaks (my client has such a green screen and I've been somehow managing with it till now)!!!!
He's gonna be so happy!
THanks love you mate❤❤
Id like to thank you for the content, I've been wondering around TH-cam to find the solution for a choppy green screen video. I'm new to editing so it was a lifesaver. Thanks again.
I've been pulling my hair out for a week. this nailed it. thank you i just liked and subscribe!
A couple of more tips that can help those problem keys. If you adjust your color sliders and start getting rid one green area but the color starts reversing elsewhere in another, you can add a second Lumetri color effect to fine tune those problem areas. What happens if you have a woman with really curly hair and you get the hair dialed in but when you try adjusting for the clothes, the hair gets messed up. The trick: Unlink your video from the audio track, duplicate the video layer, add ultra key to the second layer and dial in the key for the hair on one layer and the clothes on the other. Now use the crop with a fairly soft feather on both layers. Overlap the two soft crop effects so you get the best part from each layer married together. Last tip. You can use a similar trick if your talent shows up with a green tie - happens on St. Patty's day some times. Dupe the video layer as above and put a crop around the tie so you're basically adding a non keyed video layer (cropped) over the keyed layer. You'll need to play through the video and either adjust the crop or keyframe it if the talent moves outside your cropped area. Add some feather to insure the crop isn't visible and you're good to go. Be sure you do any color adjustments prior to duplicating the layer so you aren't cutting and pasting color adjustments. Remember what's important is the final product looks as professional as you can make it, how you get there isn't as important. If you knew how many hacks are done in movies and TV shows you'd laugh. Back in the days of the original StarTrek, the elevator doors were opened and closed by two guys in t-shirts kneeling just out of camera. Again, what's important is selling the effect - not how you do it. Happy keying.
Thank you so much for this. I filmed a miniature with a green screen - I used a non-green support device to give the miniature a sense of elevation. For days I've been trying to figure out how to KEY out this non-green color. Your explanation, plus a bit of tweeking with the lighting, and I was able to get a perfectly clean shape green screen for the miniature. I'll be using a green support device from now on.
Again, thank you.
great video - I received some clips with an unevenly lit green screen and this allowed me to actually pull a key
found this incredibly valuable - love the breezy style you have going through this - it makes the whole process less daunting
Well that sure is nice to hear, thanks for sharing :) Glad the video was helpful!
Thanks a lot.. Very Helpful
My green screen footage came out so crisp, thank you so much for this tutorial! :D
wow this was amazing and is exactly what is needed. everyone else is doing the same low fi thing to eliminate green screens.
Not sure what that is but glad this helped
Very useful thankyou my friend
I... well... this was...
Can you tell I'm impressed by my speechlessness?
I'll just end by saying thank you. Thank you!
Game changer video for my green screening. Thanks man.
Absolutely superb video my dude! Been wanting to find this tutorial for so long now!
Thank you, I have been looking for this for two years
Perfect, thanks dude.
Thanks a lot my key went for really bad to great thanks to this tip !
Great tutorial. Well done.
This has been super helpful, thank you so much! Have subscribed.
my video was looking weird in the edit and i got bummed out so looked to youtube for help found your video and learned what i needed to do to and then applied the settings best for my video and bro it looks great so thank you so much, i used some spill suppression as well and some matte clean up, which are all under effects control for ultra key effect, again thanks a lot
I started including your technique and the results are fabulous. Thank you!
Really helpful Thank You My Brother😍
This was really helpful. I mean REALLY HELPFUL.
Thank you 🙏
What a great video. Perfect pace for me and very helpful. Thanks so much for posting.
Wow thanks for nice comment! Love to hear it!
This is the best tutorial on this topic. Great video!
Brilliant. Thank you
Thank you so much, you have just save a soul with this tutorial.. Accurate and straight to the point
helped me so much thank you!!!!!! i already thought i need to buy some of these expensive lights to get such a good result! Thanks!
Yooooooo!!!! This was so useful!!! Idk what your other videos are like but instant subscribe!!!
Excellent tip buddy. it really sorted my problems of frizzy edges. explained it very nicely and at a pace people can understand.....thanks a ton.
Glad it helped!!
Wow! Easy to follow brother! Thanks for the great tutorial. Cheers!
Wow. This was soooo helpful. Never would have figured this out. Lifesaver!
You helped me a lot! Thank you!!
Your welcome
That's was a life saver... Thank you so much... Hari Bol 🙌🏻
No problem 👍
Thanks for the info. This is really a helpful video and helped me a lot. Glad that I came across this video.
You are great and best! Thanks brother!
Thanks ragav!
you saved my 3 hour long recording, where my greenscree nwas way too dark ty so much :D
Thanks so much for this! I was having really bad trouble with shadows on my green screen and this worked like a charm
Your welcome!! Glad it helped :)
Great vid. Thanks! That outro music took me right back to playing Undertale with my daughters ❤ Instant nostalgia.
Haha that’s awesome, one of the best games ever made imo.
@@Schrogs yeah it was really great
Thanks for helping me fix a green screen glitchy look! Appreciate you!!
Glad it helped!!!
Cool.... Any idea how to remove that thin line all-around?
Thanks for the video. Love that idea more than what other people did. 👍
I think thats caused by the "luma" setting under the ultra key. If that doesnt remove it, just mess with all of the ultra key settings under there and see what makes it look better! Might take a bit more time but I don't have a good answer for this sadly
@@Schrogs this is a good answer. Thanks for your reply and very good video. Cheers 🍺
Your low quality green screen looks like mine on its best day - I never knew one piece of 'same colour' material can look so many shades! This video has helped me recover a couple of videos I thought I might have to re-film, so thanks for that.
Glad it helped :)
absolutely perfect video. to the point and clear!
bu zamana kadar gördüğüm en güzel video harikasın
Wow You are a Doctor Of Premiere Pro patients .
Thank you for this! Made my workflow much easier :)
Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
Incredibly simple and useful. Thanks!
You just saved my school project dude! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this solution, I was struggling with one of the footage with the same issue.I hope I could get some more exciting tuts on your channel.. Please share some hacks om color grading and audio cleaning also thanks
Thank you so much!
Your welcome
Dude you did amazing with this one 👏
Thanks so much Cheese! I appreciate it man :D I'm working on series right now to teach everyone how to stream and get into youtube so this is just one part of it!
@@Schrogs i can't wait to see all of it this one is great quality
@@Tragiccheese Thanks Tragic :) My goal is to no longer post low quality content! Well we will see though lol takes a lot of time!
@@Schrogs you got this i believe in you
Very helpful, Thanks bro!
Yes sir thanks!
Perfect tutorial. Concise and quick info. Thank you.
Thanks bro good work inshallah one day you will 1M subscribers keep it up👍👍👍👍👍
This is underrated!! TY!!!
Thanks I appreciate it :)
you have solved the most problematic problem. You are savior,