GREENSCREEN or Rotoscoping? - Prepare Footage for Unreal Engine with AFTER EFFECTS

[@jadler1]

Fantastic videos. Some of the best tutorials on KZbin. Keep it up. You'll sure add subscribers.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Thank you so much! Very encouraging :)

[@jadler1]

@@JoshuaMKerr Keep the Unreal virtual production tutorials coming. We're on the cutting edge of this new technology that's going to change the industry forever. There's not much info out there yet, and everyone is trying to figure out how to get the most realistic results without having to use a cost prohibitive LED wall. I love your idea to bounce the light from a projector to get a similar effect for a fraction of the cost. Would be awesome if you did a full in depth tutorial on your virtual production setup and how to replicate.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Stay tuned haha.

[@RickySway]

Hey Joshua, thanks for this and the other series of videos on unreal production techniques. Really... THANK YOU. It's amazing the things one can learn online thanks to people like you. thanks!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Comments like this truly make what I do worthwhile. You made my day. Thank you for watching.

[@Abhinab3D]

Hello Joshua, hope you are doing great, just a general question, how did you place your self inside the car? i.e how to put the glass infront of the charcter? Many Thanks!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

It's a cgi car, and the plane is positioned inside while the virtual camera is parented to the car. Let me know if I can be more helpful or specific.

[@isaacwambugu5441]

This is the best tutorial i have watched so far👍

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Thanks Isaac!

[@kevinbillington9773]

Thanks Joshua, looking at your gear list, I have S1H, Godox 60, but the lenses I have are the S50mm, S85mm and sigma 16 to 28mm zoom. I film in 10bit 422 all intra, 4k or HD. Usually cineD. What do you use?

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Hi there. I use a 24-105 Canon as my main lens. I used to use a lot of vintage glass but it's no use for green screen, need sharp glass for that. I love the sigma lenses.

[@kennethvollrath9846]

When the netx video?? Am realy interested too see how put that image secuense into unreal engine

[@JoshuaMKerr]

I'm aiming for this weekend. I've been testing a few new things too so hopefully it will look good. There's only so far you can get with 2D planes but I think it can be convincing.

[@David_Fernandez]

Hi! I cannot make out of focus with the camera my green screen footage... Is there any setting for that? How is it possible UE doesn't allow to focus/blur the subject like in a real situation?? It makes the footage much more realistic ... Thanks a lot in advance!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Take a look in your material. There will be an option to set translucency to be rendered before DOF.

[@jiyamwijaya]

thank you for this tutorial! i cant wait to watch next video when you make this footage can effected by lighting in unreal engine enviroment!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Yes I'm looking forward to it too.

[@wjm123]

this is exactly the video I need as I'm stuck trying to bring in my key-ed footage. I've tried bringing in my image sequence exported from resolve, but it tends to keep crashing UE5... Can't wait for the next episode to see how you bring it into unreal!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Hey there! Did you get around to watching the next video?

[@wjm123]

@@JoshuaMKerr yup I did! I also figured out my issue with my crashing image sequences.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

@@wjm123 Amazing! Great to hear that. What was the problem?

[@wjm123]

@@JoshuaMKerr my img sequences were stored in a network drive and windows was making a hidden thumbs.db file in the same folder as the img sequences. These thumbs.db files are not visible even after enabling viewing hidden files. So I had to turn off a couple of windows settings to prevent the thumbs.db file from generating.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

wow that must've taken a bit of figuring out!

[@bmim8t10]

Great video, cant wait for the next video!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

More to come!

[@cineffect]

If you are moving, can you create motion tracking data to UE or import them from another program?

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Of course. I have a few tutorials about that

[@cineffect]

@@JoshuaMKerr Thank you!

[@alittlepondfrog9819]

well done mate, great tutorial

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Thanks a lot!

[@Futuremangueboy]

nice brow! I needed these coherent explanations!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

I am quite expressive

[@stanzvisuals]

Hello josh, thanks for helping always, I experience ghosting after rendering as .exr or any other format especially when i use anti-aliasing, is there a way around this if i dont have to use octane?

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Can you try disabling motion blur and tell me if that solves it?

[@stanzvisuals]

@@JoshuaMKerr ok, so i tried a short render and it still ghosts, turned off motion blur from post process volume, camera and project settings. but then a render without anti-aliasing don't ghost.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

are you rendering with sequencer or movie render queue

[@stanzvisuals]

@@JoshuaMKerr movie render queue

[@JoshuaMKerr]

lumen?

[@JJShalashaska]

Very useful video, Bro!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Hi glad it helped!

[@hiphopshot1050]

Any chance we could get a 2024 update...huge fan of your highly detailed and informative tutorials. Hoping to see what new you have up your sleeves for UE 5.3 🙌

[@JoshuaMKerr]

I might be able to do a refresh of this video. I do a lot more longform tutorial stuff on my patreon at the moment.

[@marcfruchtman9473]

That refine soft matte... wow.

[@obscurity_films]

This + your pre-key tutorial for Unreal were so helpfull! I'm stuck on a mac for now and thought there was no way for me to bring prekeyed footage over to Unreal, as I am unable to export an AVI with alpha (what I had seen other people doing). But had no idea about Open EXR! Going to try this out.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Open Exr is the best way. Avi and video doesn't work perfectly with Unreal yet.

[@squeaky_buddha]

MATE!!!! This is EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you! CHEERS!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

You are welcome. Let me know if there's anything you get stuck on.

[@marcfruchtman9473]

Ah, so one of the things I value is good contrast. To that, I recommend covering your window with your favorite thing... a green screen. That way, you can still show your beautiful window, BUT, it won't cause your camera image to lose contrast, and you will get a much better foreground.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Sorry, its been a while since I made that video. What window is that?

[@marcfruchtman9473]

@@JoshuaMKerr Oh, so, the light from the window behind your head at the start of the video... you know, how light in front of the lens messes with the sensor, and causes it to think the image is brighter, so you will appear darker. (Or you could add foreground light... too)

[@nmatthes2927]

I use S1H and VLOG as well for Chromakey and it works quite well! In Da Vinci Resolve I create a node where I saturate everything up so that colors are speratable easier. With this node I then add a node to chroma key. I then take the alpha path from there and leave the ugly colorgrading behind. I take the alpha of this weird colorgrading, but take the colors of vlog, so I have clean cut out video with still all the information of the vlog footage

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Interesting approach. I tend to convert the VLOG to ACES with a lut before doing my key. Might not be as drastic but it works as long as theres enough colour information in the footage. Shoot prores or raw if you can.

[@VishnuRanjidas]

hey Joshua.. thanks for the video. love your explanation bro. could you also show us how to do the same with a moving camera and vive tracker in upcoming videos... :)

[@JoshuaMKerr]

It's definitely on the list mate :)

[@VishnuRanjidas]

@@JoshuaMKerr eager to see 😍

[@quicksolphoto]

Very nice video. Can not find the next episode about unreal..

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Still making it bud. Hopefully not much longer

[@MiDaY_i]

nice demo!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Thanks mate

[@aashay]

Found exactly what I was looking for with this channel.. Following your journey 😄🙏🏽

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@DrZotac]

thanks! that was really really helpful!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Glad you liked it. What are you working on?

[@davidnappyhoose204]

You are excellent at explaining all of this. I'm learning so much from your videos. Thank you so much!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Really glad theyre helpful.

[@MiDaY_i]

Insane...love this as i am trying to start using unreal for vfx but i cant afford good lights for a green screen set up and im always just scared that i'll mess it up...matching the lighting in my scenes scare me the most

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Ive got some more stuff in the pipeline for exactly this! I just did a shoot on a badly lit greenscreen deliberately to see what I could come up with.

[@MiDaY_i]

@@JoshuaMKerr Subbed and will now even turn notis on...looking forward to it!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

@@MiDaY_i Welcome to the channel! Good to have you onboard.

[@chandiseo6715]

You're COOL. Thanks a million.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Youre cool too.

[@kanyllpourdevrai]

thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@JoshuaMKerr]

No bother. Happy new year!

[@valverdefighter24]

EXCELENT JOB I LOVE THE WAY THE WAY YOU EXPLAIN.. IM FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MY FIRTS LENGUAJE IS SPANISH, AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT YOU DO

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Thanks for the compliment! If you see my videos and feel inspired to make things then I'm doing my job. Theres nothing stopping you from making films and telling stories.... if you're like me it will be an obsession.

[@salt806]

So good,

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Glad it was helpful

[@emperorscotty]

I feel like you made up the movies folder thing.

[@JoshuaMKerr]

It was important (and is in the official documentation) but may not be relevant anymore

[@smepable]

Thank you very much

[@JoshuaMKerr]

No worries

[@RanjithPrakash-n9u]

please share the next step video

[@JoshuaMKerr]

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[@kevinbillington9773]

Sorry also great tuts just what I need

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Thanks man. Let me know if there's anything you'd find useful

[@dpredie]

Nice!

[@JoshuaMKerr]

Cheers man. Need to get on to the Unreal content next.

[@matrix4358]

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[@JoshuaMKerr]

Don't worry. Im not going anywhere. But thank you for the kind words.