Key Green Screen Footage in Unreal Engine 5 - The Easy Way!

In this video, I will show you how to key green screen footage inside of ‪@UnrealEngine‬ 5 - the easy way! You will learn how to import, edit, and composite your green screen footage into any virtual environment you want, using the powerful tools and features of UE5.
This tutorial is perfect for beginners who want to learn the basics of green screen compositing in Unreal Engine 5, as well as for advanced users who want to improve their skills and workflow. You will also discover some tips and tricks to make your green screen footage look more realistic and seamless.
By the end of this video, you will be able to create amazing videos with green screen footage in Unreal Engine 5 and impress your viewers with your creativity and professionalism.
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0:00 What up what up
0:20 Add Image Sequence
1:15 Add Media Player
1:50 Material Setup
3:10 Chroma Keyer
6:20 Add Sequencer

[@sihanzhang636]

super helpful! thx!

[@demonhogo]

You are on a tear my friend! Thank you!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Gotta share the knowledge 🤙🏿💪🏿

[@lanceevans1689]

Wonderful channel!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks so much 🤙🏿

[@CartoonChris1]

don't eyeball scale it. if it's 16x9 just scale it to 1.6x 0.9y and then lock it. then just type in whatever scale you need and it'll keep the 16:9 ratio. If you don't know the ratio but just the actual pixels say, 2450 x 1630, just scale to 2.45x 1.63y and lock it.

[@alirezakangavari5699]

You are amazing, thank you for this good tutorial

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks so much! 💪🏿🤙🏿

[@JIVETURKEY600]

Thanks for Everything Homie.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Any time my man 👊🏿💪🏿

[@vidayperfumes7514]

Once again great content , thank you

[@JonathanWinbush]

My pleasure! 🤙🏿

[@mariorodriguez8627]

Thanks for the tutorial!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You bet Mario! 👊🏿🤙🏿

[@micbab-vg2mu]

Graet tips as always - thank you for sharing:)

[@JonathanWinbush]

You are so welcome! 🤙🏿

[@LoganPinney]

Pro tips daily! 🎉

[@JonathanWinbush]

You know it! 🤙🏿

[@darinmurano]

looking forward to seeing that Coil Pro in action

[@JonathanWinbush]

Will be making a video soon but its pretty solid

[@arnoldsoko]

Watching this today, while I wait for the new project avalanche tutorial 🔥🔥

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks fam, been getting over being sick + client work but I think i'll be ready this week 💪🏿

[@GTshortStories]

Yeah, I use After effects or Resolve for Keying. I use the Ultimatte 12 HD to see my shot in Unreal and then when I'm all done recording take it into Resolve or After Effects. Great tutorial.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yup that's why I started off with def use a different but if you must key in unreal well here you go lol

[@bluebearcreativeAU]

Thanks for this.....

[@JonathanWinbush]

My pleasure

[@thomaswindfeld728]

You did it! Yay. Thanx. Hey, how would You go abort getting Sound included in The render?

[@JonathanWinbush]

You can add audio to the sequencer for sure

[@PatrickNanEdits]

This is awesome! Do you find any playback lag after applying chroma keying on the img seq at all?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I personally didnt no but I have a lot of vram and a threadripper cpu so that might help 🤙🏿

[@PatrickNanEdits]

@@JonathanWinbush was the footage used HD 1080p? Planning on shooting some 4k greenscreen in the future

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@PatrickNanEdits its 1080 I grabbed it off youtube but I dont think 4k will be a problem

[@leonv983]

Actually, you can use color picker also on a texture node instead of going to after effects! for rgb values ;) Just open material instance in a separate window, hover the window over the media texture nodes and use color picker on a small preview screen inside texture node. Cheers

[@JonathanWinbush]

Ooo great tip thanks! Ill have to try this next time I have it open 🤙🏾

[@user-gz9zt5bh7g]

Can you make a video making this work in a Mixed Reality headset?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Unfortuntely I dont own one

[@irvinmalaver]

Friend, what's up, I did as is, but when I rendered it in an environment, there was no Media Player animation, it remained static... Can you make a video when rendering?

[@brigu88]

Hi! First, thank you so much for this video tutorial! I have one question, how do i do when my video in green screen has the actor moving back and forth and left and right? If i follow this will it import movement in space as well? Or is there other steps i need to do?

[@JonathanWinbush]

so it wont follow the movement think of it like being on a tv screen so the screen is there and the image plays with in it.

[@brigu88]

@@JonathanWinbush so to get in depth movements i must record the video either live in unreal with trackers or with a depth camera right?

[@BrianHuether]

Hi, have you done anything with green screen and a moving camera and moving subject? I am trying to figure out how to shoot a scene with moving camera and bring the footage (with background already removed) into unreal engine. Thanks!

[@JonathanWinbush]

I havent done that no but you probably could track the footage in another program then bring that camera info in

[@BrianHuether]

I am currently using AE, but the tough part is making sure the solved camera actually matches the true geometry of the scene, such that planes at z=0 don't go floating around, and roatating,etc. I think doing 3d tracked, green screened/rotobrushed footage and inserting into Unreal with matching geometries is going to be a hot topic and surpringly there is so little out there on doing this workflow accurately. Maybe you can give it a try!@@JonathanWinbush

[@JonathanWinbush]

@BrianHuether I've done one a few years back bringing tracked data into ue here kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWfHi4h6pZ5ondksi=RTWjVqTEDCVcb7sA

[@BrianHuether]

@@JonathanWinbush Great video. Watched that yesterday. Things seem to get tricky when the tracked footage contains a subject. For that case seems people generally attach image plate to the 3d_tracker_camera actor, so that the subject is always in front of camera to prevent its 2D-ness from being obvious. And in those cases becomes especially crucial, as I am finding, to have planes in tracked data precisely matching planes in UE. But tracker data is inherently not completely accurate, so the subject in the UA world can often appear to be moving somewhat horizontally as if floating. Really tricky to get this right. I think that is why most people are obscuring parts of the subject, like feet, so that this problem becomes less problematic. Anyway, I am totally new to all this. Prepping to make some music videos of me on guitar, hence trying to understand most accurate way to place myself in a UE world. Thanks

[@mohydra]

Bro, haven't you figured out yet how to get rid of the ghosting in TSR? specially when having a video playing on a media plate like this case

[@JonathanWinbush]

It's still doing that for you? I had the issue in UE4 but havent seen it in 5

[@ferlaur113]

Nice but what about shadow disappearing? It looks like in 5.3 we don't have shadow casting from this EXR seq! Glitch or I misunderstood? Thx @winbush

[@JonathanWinbush]

The tutorial I did right before this is all about the shadows check that one out! 🤙🏿

[@vladan.Poison]

dirty but does the job.. thanks

[@JonathanWinbush]

absolutely 🤙🏿

[@benblaumentalism6245]

Hey Maestro Winbush! May I ask a question? I’ve been keying in AE, and exporting it as an EXR sequence RGB+Alpha. I can get the IMG media sources, media player, and media texture working. When I apply the media texture to a plane, it always looks far, far worse in Unreal compared to AE. I’ve recently been studying color space theory, and have since tried the OCIO/ACES workflow. The quality has improved a little, but nowhere nearly good enough to actually use. Why is it that in tutorials, I so often see folks just easily bringing in EXR sequences and having them look fairly usable, but mine are always grainy and just plain ugly? Tutorial presenters just seem to have no trouble with quality, but I’ve never gotten anything acceptable. UE renders, OTOH, look fine to me in AE. I’m perplexed! 🤔 Help? 🤞 🥹

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea I'm not really sure expect maybe its the lighting. Maybe look at it unlit and see how the footage looks to see

[@benblaumentalism6245]

@@JonathanWinbush I will. Thanks!

[@shekiba.646]

where did you get EXR ?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Grabbed the footage off KZbin

[@yayayavuzseseselim]

how render not play photo

[@LatvianALIEN]

what about audio from footage?

[@JonathanWinbush]

You should be able to have audio in your sequencer from your file

[@Santuus2023]

Hello friend. There is such a problem: when exporting models from Cinema 4 to Unreal, an error occurs that there are no smoothing group . How to fix it?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thats a Cinema thing it doesnt happen if you use Cineware though

[@Santuus2023]

@@JonathanWinbush Clear. Thank you

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@Santuus2023 Absolutely, I'll let you know if I ever figure it out but it always happens for me when I export and FBX out of Cinema

[@mrgreen6860]

And why don't you erase the background, for example, in After Effects before and then render in EXR Alpha? Much faster and easier than in Unreal Engine?

[@JonathanWinbush]

In the video I've said several times I personal would do it in after effects but this is how to do it in unreal of you don't have after effects

[@mrgreen6860]

@@JonathanWinbush I'm sorry that I didn't follow everything because I'm not very good with English, that is, I don't know English at all. I follow what I can via translation. I follow pictures more than I listen 😉

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@mrgreen6860 No problem at all I understand 🙏🏿 I did a tutorial right before this using EXRs kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKOWeoKInNSNjs0si=5GxAcCKhLLvlaRq0 Then also another one on how to get dynamic shadows when using EXRs kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2TZkH6njdF1Y5Isi=ZU0Zvo1NMNU_FK-r

[@mrgreen6860]

@@JonathanWinbush Thank you for answering the questions of those of us who don't really understand each other that much in Unreal engine. It is very difficult for us who speak other languages to understand Especially when Unreal Engine is only in English. At least if it was also in German it would be much easier to understand. And there are hardly any tutorials in German In addition to German, I speak three other languages, unfortunately I have not learned English

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@mrgreen6860 Oh what part of Germany are you in? I just was doing a workshop in Berlin a few months ago. I'll be testing out A.i. translation tools here in the future to hopefully make these tutorials more available in other languages too!