How To Use Green Screen in Final Cut Pro

[@PeteBreen]

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. 😄

[@gavinwolking4902]

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

[@taylorcohen1794]

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!

[@nnslife]

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.

[@PracticeTaiji]

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!

[@JuJuForexTrades]

EXCELLENT class on green screen, proper lighting and how to use it on Final Cut thank you

[@baymukemmel398]

Realy impressive, that was the most inclusive green screen video on youtube. Thanks to your effort.

[@MattanawOriginal]

Lots of immediately useful content needed for my initial green screen productions. Saved me a ton of time. Thank you.

[@mariannepetersen7537]

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!!

[@morbid_corner]

I learned so much in this video. Thank you!!!

[@johstee]

Me tooooo❤

[@control_it_alt_delete]

I really don’t think I need to watch another video. This was excellent. Thank you so much.

[@stevenbarry6488]

Nicholas thank you for the simple step by step..I'm going to try it today! Best, Steven

[@thecoolrich]

Super helpful thanks

[@s_v6294]

Thank you!!! It’s so helpful

[@vikramiot6233]

One of the best videos on this topic. this derives a million views

[@Sonofthunders]

Awesome, great video, subscribed. Thank you.

[@LunaAltheaMystique]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@catsnextweek]

Thank you! This is Exactly what I need to learn! Wonderful lesson :)

[@captwam]

Huge help ! Thanks so much ! Love your authenticity & straight upness

[@agelesspics4556]

Great video 👍🏽👍🏽

[@MilesScott]

Absolutely fantastic video! Thanks for posting!

[@thedylansullivanshow]

Yo this is awesome, thank you.

[@myge_]

You just won a new subscriber, honestly this video is so helpful!

[@_louislens]

Amazing tutorial ‼️

[@curlykeys8261]

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!

[@21daystill]

I have been editing like a caveman on FCP until this. thanks!

[@explorewithkhushu]

Amazing work ❤

[@SirRichardKing]

youre really good at this

[@warrenphotographyx]

Great work !

[@Ndersso]

Good stuff!

[@kristianpflores]

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

[@SunDev1]

hell yeah this video really helped me

[@thedownloshow]

Nice video! Will try this out

[@LabourRelationsRoundup]

love this! thank you! Coming off of Adobe Premiere so this was great!

[@ecemylmaz]

thank so much, best video about green screen.

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

Dang! Thanks!!!

[@Adventureruler]

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!

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

Glad to help! Final Cut can be a little daunting at first when switching from iMovie, but MAN is it worth it!

[@LiveInFlorivana]

Great video dude

[@adrianvanleeuwen]

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.

[@patrickfino]

Thanks man 🎉

[@MrOrchardBeach]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! SUBBED 🌊

[@acouplecents]

Wow what an incredible video Nicholas! Subbed and can't wait to see more :)

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

Thanks! I'm actually heading to CES Vegas next week - surely something cool will come out of that show!

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[@KineticAirRgV]

TY!

[@emadeddineibo1842]

What an amazing video, respect sir 🫡 Thanks a lot ❤

[@millaze]

yeah this is an excellent video, i super thank you.

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

Thank you - I see youre using green screenin type stuff a fair bit in your music videos!

[@anupsharma7872]

bro you deserve 10M $ Room with 10M Subscribers❤❤

[@theconcretepilots]

thanks so much

[@rickved]

Which button do you push?

[@themarksmith]

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!

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

Excellent suggestion, I do use motion a bit, I’d be happy to share what I know!

[@Sageoutcasttownhalls]

@@NicholasJamesJohnson I shared this video out

[@Sageoutcasttownhalls]

@@NicholasJamesJohnson great you want to do a video and tag me I will share

[@SomedayTravel]

@@NicholasJamesJohnson make that 2 .. LOL Keep producing brother this helped alot cant wait to give it a try

[@AlexdAviator]

for the laptop you could just roto it out and color correct it to make it match

[@creativegreats]

How ?

[@AlexdAviator]

@@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]

@@AlexdAviator how do you select a part ? Give me an example?

[@AlexdAviator]

@@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

[@MB-cr6xb]

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!

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

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.

[@MB-cr6xb]

@@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.

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

@@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!

[@AriffSuffian]

Great video but that particle on the lens/sensor of your main camera man…. driving me nuts haha

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

Hahaha, everything got REAL dirty at Daytona.. I promise to clean all sensors before the next video:)

[@latesttechtrends1227]

ur energy man.... i am subbing:)

[@RAPINSCHULEN]

strong video, thank you, keep it going!

[@Insomnijac]

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!

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

haha, thank you! And yep - straight to business for me.. I know none of you want to see my morning routine.

[@javadhamzayev4781]

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?

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

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?

[@designsofmaha]

useful content

[@themarksmanABP]

Another new sub, great content

[@TECHDRONEMEDIA]

Thank you :-)

[@anupsharma7872]

how can I download these backgrounds from deferent angles

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

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.

[@ailearners]

What computer do you use for editin?

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

I use a MacBook Pro M1 Max. I can’t believe this thing is two generations behind, it’s still basically perfect for editing.

[@creativegreats]

How do u get rid of the sparkly laptop before going into post ?

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

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.

[@creativegreats]

@@NicholasJamesJohnson is lack of lighting what makes it sparkly?

[@redfacilities]

Brilliant! Where did you get the backgrounds from in the AI program??

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

The AI literally creates the art! Look up 'Mid-Journey AI' or openai.com/dall-e-2/

[@redfacilities]

@@NicholasJamesJohnson Amazing - I feel really old now....

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

@@redfacilities hahaha, yeah.. Wild future we're living in

[@doggievideos1360]

video starts at 5:07. you're welcome.

[@WesteastWesteast]

new sub! thank you!

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

Thanks Becca! Getting in on the ground floor, haha!

[@Eurowefilms421]

Why oh why edit the audio so tightly...spoils the tutorial...sorry...!

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

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.

[@lepee5830]

Going a bit too fast in your explanations.

[@NicholasJamesJohnson]

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!

[@lepee5830]

@@NicholasJamesJohnson thank you for your nice answer (it'll help "slow folks" like me)

[@nagenHARP]

great video , subscribed

[@bellacat9813]

great video

[@glasco_]

great video bro

[@michael_the_wicked]

Thank you so much

[@TwoTimesRmedia]

This was great. Now I want a green screen lol