Fix Any Green Screen with VEGAS Pro 18 (Beyond The Chroma Key)

[@marquiscandelaria8954]

this is really good, not just the content itself but also how you explain everything

[@cyb3rpunkt]

I don't seem to have all the composite options you have. I'm at doing the cut at 14:39. I'm working with Movie Studio Platinum 14.0. Is that option not available in this version?

[@topvrmoments9847]

right here with yuh man, you find a fix?

[@cyb3rpunkt]

@@topvrmoments9847 Nope. I think my version doesn't have that option.

[@topvrmoments9847]

@@cyb3rpunkt nah bro it does i found a vid i got you ---- kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep_chIedmNd6iMU

[@nickfiore754]

still coming back tp this one everytime i get a project with a not so pretty green screen plate, thank ya sir!

[@KLeeFMVs]

Excellent. I was always having issues with slight glow around the subject, and had such a hard time cleaning it up. This is by far the best idea I've seen. Thanks a lot, really appreciate it :).

[@plaidcrow]

Fantastic tutorial! Super helpful. I'm getting more into green screen editing for some of my new video projects, and I was getting a little discouraged after spending hours trying to get my green screen setup to be absolutely perfect with no wrinkles, just the right amount of lighting, reducing shadows, and so on to make the editing process smoother, but this looks like a decent solution for if the original recording isn't absolutely immaculate. I'll have to give this method a try next. Thanks!

[@jhuliacaballero6977]

omg this is next level editing and EXACTLY what I needed i'm so glad i stumble upon your vid it is really well explained you have no ideia of how much it helped me Keep up the great word :D

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Great, loved the detail. Just makes you think about taking more care to get the lighting right in the first place to save all this trouble! I can see this being handy for getting the edges spot on, thanks.

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

Yeah i saved 10 minutes in pre but lost an hour in post

[@MaiKyVN]

Thank you so much.

[@nicoleofnowhere]

Wow...this was incredibly helpful! I did my best to iron and light my green screen and I thought all was still lost. But you have solved my problems! Thank you so much. :)

[@ashutoshpathak8134]

Very Helpful! Thanks a ton man!

[@bretthealy9011]

Absolutely awesome tutorial thankyou

[@ElricX]

This is excellent! and exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[@valrie9593]

Great tutorial, been using it all the time lately! Also completely unrelated but you sound sooooo similar to the streamer/youtuber DumbDog it's crazy 😂

[@VestigialVoice]

Here goes Mr. Adam again, divulging Vegas' secrets. :) Thank you for putting together this video for us!

[@lindopapuh5094]

Sir, hope your life gets blessed, cause you diserve it.

[@HappyBeardGames]

Thank you for this video, really helped me a lot!

[@TheMoistMan64]

This is very reminiscent of how people used to key things out in vhs tapes in the 90’s

[@BrianSmithCanman]

Really enjoyed this. I used this for a green screen I did for a client. The Ignite plug in is very good BTW. It is built into Vegas Effects. It just didn't make a perfect edge. I used this and you saved the day. Thanks

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

That's awesome! So glad to hear it!

[@BrianSmithCanman]

@@TechDiveAVCLUB I've been using Vegas Pro for Years. Tried getting into PP but I can do everything I need faster in Vegas. Do you have any videos showing how to use some of the other video plug ins that come with vegas work by themselves, why and how they can be combined with other plugins?

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

@@BrianSmithCanman So, right now I'm staying away from plug ins just to keep with what everyone has installed. I've got a playlist called fancy edits that you may like that has more combo Fx stuff

[@BrianSmithCanman]

@@TechDiveAVCLUB The plug ins I am talking baout come with the program. Not third party.

[@jlot8almahska]

Always amazed with youre tutorial brother

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

I appreciate it! I hope to keep it up.

[@PlasticThomasOrchestra]

Crazy, that's some pro stuff 😅 Definitely good to do a good green screen

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

Yes, the best fix is just taking the time to do it right

[@MewsSnep]

I was having a lot of trouble with the chroma key because the subject was turning slightly transparent no matter what I did. I followed your tutorial and had similar issues but managed to figure out a solution. Going from about 13:40 instead of creating a new background greenscreen I made the bottom video the composite child of the top one, with composite mode of the top one on cut and sliding the levels slider on the left all the way over to 100% I managed to get a decent cutout of my subject. Tweaking FX settings of both videos gave me a decent result which I could really get any other way. I was basically just messing with settings so I'm not sure why this works but ya. If anyone else is having trouble with a similar issue I hope this helps, I'm on Vegas Pro 15 so things could be different if you're using a different version.

[@Tomo3]

Awesome!

[@TheCountryCottageGardener]

Fantastic. I've got loads poor footage to try this with 👍👍

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

That poor poor footage

[@TallerVision]

youre the goat, you saved me

[@SavageVictr]

Love you !

[@SegaYoru]

Thank you, doing a normal chroma key was also removing color from my subject and I had no idea what to do Maybe there was another way, but doing this helped as an alternative (though I can't remove some tiny excess green that remains around my subject, because rendering and trying to chroma key caused my subject to lose some color again lol)

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

Try the secondary color corrector to shift the green in your subject. Also you don't have to render this back out as green, you can just use the mask to key. Good luck!

[@Mroziwanman]

Thanks! Really clear!

[@Reyfox1]

Amazing how you did this! Where do you store all this knowledge? I struggle with just finding the computer power button! Great tutorial as always! Have a wonderful Merry Christmas, and a safe and Happy New Year!

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

Thank you very much, and you too! Necessity is the mother of invention. And I'm a bit stubborn about refilming 😅

[@GuitarHeartChannel]

I had a LOT of problems with vegas crashing and then started gradually lowing the Options>Preferences>Video>Dynamic RAM Preview max setting and that is fixing it - for me anyway.

[@SteveMack]

Cheers!

[@CineSolutions]

Hey I was going to say "fantastic' also.

[@ropeyarn]

The green screen backdrops they sell are too dark! They are a medium to dark green that take a ton of light to make bright. Would someone please post where to get a bright green backdrop to begin with.

[@BONLEV]

can you rescale yourself with a green screen background? In your example you are "big" but if I want myself in a corner (like picture in picture) and with a background video. In your example I will not see a (full) background video because you are too big in this example. So I want to resize myself so you can see more of background video. Because shrinking makes that the green screen is not covering the full background anymore. Hope you understand my question.

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

You can do anything you want with it! It doesn't matter because the background is gone! :)

[@BONLEV]

@@TechDiveAVCLUB yes this worked! how stupid of me. thank you!

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

@@BONLEV its not stupid there's just a lot to consider

[@momogunsabah]

helo. i like this tutorial. im kind of new to sony vegas, previously im using corel draw studio. i need more tutorial and practice to master

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

Thanks! There's plenty for you here to learn too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3rco3hnitR-qdU

[@momogunsabah]

@@TechDiveAVCLUB Thanks for your response. I hope that you can tutorial on how to make sing along karaoke. i'm into that now and made some karaoke song but i think i need your expertise to enhance my editing in sony vegas pro 18.

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

it's now on the list

[@rudykwack]

Thanks for the great video, and this is really helpful. Though less related to this video, would there be a way to track the green screen when it is not stationary?

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

I'll research it.

[@rudykwack8830]

@@TechDiveAVCLUB Thanks Adam! Will look forward to it

[@pastorrandy]

Hi, I spent two or three hours on your green screen videos and couldn't get this to work. Instead of getting a solid white outline, everything was white except for my black glasses, my mouth and my nostrils. I just couldn't get them to disappear like your glasses and your mouth did. I tried all the level adjusters on all the different Fx elements one at a time and it just wouldn't work. Not sure what I did wrong. 😬

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

That can happen. You can isolate different parts and combine them later. You can try to make just your glasses white layer it with your main one. Ill link a video

[@pastorrandy]

@@TechDiveAVCLUB Thanks, I just upgraded to Vegas Post 19 with your affiliate link, so hopefully you'll get a few shekels. Do you happen to know if the Boris Primatte Studio is built in to the Continuum package or is it a separate install file?

[@andybaumbrooklyn]

Adam, I see that you recommend rendering out before applying the final key. Besides saving on processing power, how would this compare to employing this technique on a nested timeline and then applying the final key in the master project? Wouldn't you avoid losing a generation by eliminating the render? Or, am I missing some unintentional consequences that would result by using a nested timeline? Thanks in advance for your reply.

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

Nested should work. It's mostly because i was making a canned green screen. Also, it's a good back since ny that point, you're project (nested or not) is getting a lot of layers which makes it easier to screw up

[@MMRails]

Hi Adam, great video as always. I have some time now to edit my videos and I want to change the background in some. Months ago, maybe even a year ago, you sent me a video on how to do that with model trains. Like an idiot I didn't save it. Do you mind sending me that link again or explaining how I can add background photos (or video) to my train videos? You might have a video yourself, but I don't know what it would be called. Many thanks and happy holidays! -Mark

[@MMRails]

Found the video! It involves importing still png images. (Steve Ramsden) Thanks Adam. I'm going to try a few things and I'll report back. :)

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

Yes! This one for others reading! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIW7fWucl66ajM0 would you like to send me a clip and a goal go for a tutorial in vegas? You're a movie studio user right? I'll send you the finished product! No time promises though

[@MMRails]

@@TechDiveAVCLUB Thanks for the offer, that's very nice of you. I'm keeping it very simple for now. The png trick works really well so far. I've added moving clouds to my background while the train passes a camera on a tripod. I'm not brave enough to try a moving camera shot yet. :) Happy new year!

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

@@MMRails happy New year! Best of luck with your project

[@denjoverse]

Is there a way to not render 2 times?

[@denjoverse]

Nevermind, I could just add the background I want as the child, A little sloppy but I can work with it to lessen the loss.

[@randominoh]

The actual tutorial begins at 6:40

[@kimpossible117]

9:29 masking

[@curtcoller3632]

The result looks great - but you just are a bad teacher. You don't explain the steps. It looks like you are experimenting while you present. You need to prepare your clip, explain all the mouse clicks and all the steps you did. By "preparing" I mean: Go through all the steps BEFORE you produce a video tutorial!!! I hope this helps you.

[@marcelocraprod1218]

Forget all this complicated nonsense. Use newblue chroma keyer, and don't loose 23 minutes of your time for something it takes 1 minute.

[@Xavier148xav]

why what does newblue chroma keyer does?

[@marcelocraprod1218]

@@Xavier148xav Perfect and easy chroma.

[@BDHO73]

Assuming you have the money and desire to buy it. You can solve any problem with enough cash, this shows you how to do it with basic tools. It yeah, an easier tool would be welcome.

[@marcelocraprod1218]

@@BDHO73 The new blue was included with the Vegas. I didnt bought it.

[@marcelocraprod1218]

@ZalAffect Entertainment I didnt say the pro version. Just the one that comes in the bundle is perfect.