Low-budget GREEN SCREEN at home | What gives the best results?

[@cerberus9704]

Great ideas! I personally found a 54" by 108" table cloth at party city for $1.49, so thanks for enlightening me :)

[@FXhome]

Nice one! - Javert

[@4KProductionsFilms]

Tom, I threw my green cloth in the dryer for about 5 minutes and got a lot of those wrinkles out. Also, Wal-Mart carries a Kelley Green paint that matches my cloth perfectly.

[@HitfilmSensei]

Great video! I have personally used green craft paper, a green sheet, and an actual green screen. They all worked as well as yours did.

[@samirrr7915]

Hitfilm express so far the best free editor even has option for paid versions but the free works so well and has no watermark props to the people behind it!

[@FXhome]

Great to hear! - Javert

[@ABDTPRESENTS]

Agree!

[@adrianmilitaru4967]

My favorite video so far, learned a lot. I wanted to change the color of some green objects and the tips in this video applied to that too. Thank you so much!

[@FXhome]

Glad to hear it. You’re very welcome! -Tom

[@spacecy]

Thank you for this video! Extremely helpful!

[@FXhome]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@LurgsHowToGuides]

I'm hoping to convert our small bedroom to a home office and painting one wall green. At the moment I'm use a green cover that came with some garden furniture! Thanks for the info.

[@FXhome]

You're welcome! - Javert

[@AltairYoshi]

It's really cool how one can do a green screen with so little! I remember using a curtain as a green screen for a school project a long time back. It didn't look amazing but it got the job done :P Great video as always!

[@FXhome]

Glad you liked it! - Javert

[@fourscorpio]

Great video, Tom! I myself have used the plastic tablecloth method up until recently when I got a collapsible portable green/blue screen. It worked pretty good, but only for static shots, and there was a need to use masking to remove hotspot reflections in my composite. The folding screen is easier to light evenly, but make sure you don't have any light source behind it as that will shine through and give you the same problem as plastic.

[@albertomon]

I got a wall covered on green poster boards and the keying looks decent, but I still need more practice with the lightning so it looks even better

[@DafterThings]

Love videos like this. A water spray and hairdryer get a lot of wrinkles out of my proper green screen. Because I work with a smaller scale I'm always on the look out for 'stuff' that can be used : Card, felt notice boards, chroma green kitchen chopping boards etc. As long as it's a different colour to what you're shooting and you can get the lighting right there are some really cheap alternatives.

[@technomikelyons]

I made my own green screen for under $40 (Canadian). I went to Home Depot and bought a 1" diameter pvc pipe, and cut it up to build a simple stand (also requires some T-connectors and a couple of elbow connectors). I then got a bunch of clips (some of them green plastic) at a dollar store. And finally, I went to a fabric store where I found their end-of-roll section and bought a couple of metres of solid green cotton cloth for about $4. Picked up a similar one of solid blue just in case.

[@discoverindia2877]

Thanks for your efforts.

[@justinharrell327]

I've used taping colored craft paper before.

[@nkcreations218]

It is a very good video editor and a VFX tool but it only has an issue of playback i request you to improve the playback in the coming updates

[@lilchikyboy]

I have a loft bed whith my setup underneath and i use a green bed sheet

[@GarethOwenFilmGOwen]

Am impressed how they all worked especially the green card ha

[@mp_reviews]

👍 Cool video, but what options are there for chroma keying when the subject must sit on the color and not just in front of it? For instance, feet walking across a shot. 😟

[@roebuddy01]

Lighting up a white wall with green lights can also work as a greenscreen so long as you have regular diffuse lights in front of the subject and have enough distance between subject and wall.

[@themichael_o69]

Ok but how do they key out the little orange plus signs at 10:20?

[@abbez4888]

Maybe with chromakey, but if youre in express, I think you have to rotoscope

[@FXhome]

Manual masking. - Javert

[@themichael_o69]

@@FXhome ohhhh ok thanks that makes more sense now. May I ask why they are there? Are they tracking references?

[@abbez4888]

@@themichael_o69 Yes

[@splotchdog]

@@themichael_o69 yes tracking.... a different soultion is to use a slightly lighter / darker green marker (wich can be keyed out) , but this might become problematic if heavy motion blur is involved

[@ermmm7159]

excellent work guys!

[@FerraFilms]

Awesome video guys

[@FXhome]

Thanks! - Javert

[@AKAHatter]

I use green sewing fabric that cost about $5 and it works great. Its not perfect, but for small vfx shots, it works like a charm.

[@FXhome]

Thanks for sharing! - Javert

[@YISHIENLAIJENNIE]

Thanks!! Will buy a bundle of green paper tomorrow :-)

[@FXhome]

Have fun! - Javert

[@toxictrapper4955]

I have super a compact working area where I only have maybe 10 cm distance from wall, is using any kind of green screen shown in the video a viable option for me, or do I need more clearance from the green screen itself? I used background remover for OBS but it wasn't good enough for me to use

[@libertyquest]

i just painted my wall with paint from Lowes it was like 40 bucks for what i need worked great

[@AlanJojy]

Should i switch to the new editor (HIT FILIM)? Really many features in this Editor... I will be Free user

[@theduncsterEXTRA]

yes its a great program

[@AlanJojy]

@@theduncsterEXTRA I will change.. becuase now i use filmora.. and i dont... its really limited...

[@renzapolza6808]

It depends on what you want. If you want to do stuff like animating green screen and effects etc. Hitfilm is perfect for you. But if you want to do color grading than use davinci resolve (also free). Or you can use them both

[@AlanJojy]

​@@renzapolza6808Yes. Filmora is not free.. and HitFilim has more features too

[@renzapolza6808]

@@AlanJojy I didn't say anything about filmora only about the two best free editors at this time. Davinci resolve and Hitfilm express.

[@mayrakairupan]

Hi can i make a request? can you do the quicksilver speed effect?

[@Loreage]

Hey, could you show us how to remove a lens flare?

[@ABDTPRESENTS]

I used the cloth, in blue green, orange and black.

[@ABDTPRESENTS]

But green is best.

[@bazwillrun]

Ive used green card/paper...use glue stick/ or adhesive craft aerosol to stick it down, gets rid of all the curves and lift off at the borders....takes a few mins at most and a few mins to take it all down

[@KenRossPhotography]

In some of the examples of your studio use we see red markers (+) taped to the green screen. My guess is that this is used for some kind of alignment; can you explain that and maybe point to a vid on the topic?

[@FXhome]

The tape is there so that the camera tracker has something visible to track other than a flat green wall. - Javert

[@RetroReminiscing]

I have tried plastic table clothes, green shower curtains...card ...bought a screen that attaches to your chair behind you and still have issues..gave up lol...but thanks for this video..encouraged me a little bit again ...🤗🟢🟩

[@FXhome]

We're glad we could help encourage you to create! Greenscreens are tricky but keep at it, you'll get there :) - Tom

[@RetroReminiscing]

@@FXhome Thank you Tom!

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

Thanks so much

[@Ashley-id2cb]

Even with the wrinkles, the cloth one worked great? I believe I literally just bought that cloth one but can't put an iron to it, because it will stIck to iron. Any suggestions on how to get wrinkles out?

[@FXhome]

Bit of a long process but try adding a kitchen towel between the iron and the green screen. It will help the iron from sticking.

[@Ashley-id2cb]

@@FXhome will try! Thanks

[@Tore_Lund]

what about a sheet of white plastic? The thick kind used for medical trash bags. The ida is to light it from behind with a projector showing a green still image. So you can omit the lamps to light the screen from the front, have no reflections and hide the small hotspot from the projector behind the subject?

[@FXhome]

It could work, you'd just want to make sure that the light shining from behind isn't casting a green light onto the actor. This will make it harder to key out because of the spill. - Javert

[@Tore_Lund]

@@FXhome The idea was to get a completely homogeneous green color without hotspots, but you are right, it might spillover though it should be dailed down to be no brighter than a front iluminated ordinary greenscreen.

[@Desolate258]

when i edit there just came. a logo that says hitfilm exprees. can you help me???

[@FXhome]

The reason for the watermark is covered near the end of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHnOYZtpjMxno9E - Javert

[@Desolate258]

thanks

[@stupid5pin]

Thanks for releasing this video two weeks after I spent over $100 for one of the Elgato green screens 😂

[@sumkipplays]

How do you add new fonts?

[@FXhome]

Install them on your system as normal and if compatible, they'll show up in the HitFilm Text panel. - Javert

[@sumkipplays]

@@FXhome thank you

[@Steven-ze2zk]

What is "Radeon software?"

[@SKYNETSTUDIO]

To answer the question at the end : I'm dying to buy a house here in Canada, having my own studio and painting a wall ! I'm upset of setting everything eah time and tidy again and again ! hahaha !

[@abbez4888]

I don't have any of those, but I use a fert of a pool table. It works perfectly, as long as I mask out the stains xD

[@PartyCrewCoolPAD]

Mini anime cartoons & i don't mean the duration time slot Its going be great #Goodluck #thanks

[@splotchdog]

I will prefer the cloth option. But I miss some stuff in the video...there cheap green screen cloth (also sold in a popular online warehouse) wich features actually some BAD properties to look out for: a) semi transparent. If you are hanging it at a wall this is less of a problem, but if you plan to hang it from a stand (with light behind it) this might be problematic Of course you can get around if you got a second back cloth behind it. b) textured / patterned... I think they do this to minimize glaring, but at higher resolution this could lead to moiree patterns c) glarring, like your pvc cloth despite having textured properties they still might produce glaring. Usually you want go with some rough cloth wich minimizes this. I think a good thick green cloth will cost you certainly a bit more than 20 bucks, but saves you a lot of trouble in the long run. Usually I'm a big fan of "buy cheap", but here I think paying a little more (and buy locally to see what you get) is a good investment.

[@thunderstormstudios7104]

Why not get a green chart and stretch it out on cardboard?

[@PlanetIscandar]

I've tried already to ask this selling company about the availability of the Chroma Painting (abroad), but nobody answered. I own already a very large Green Cloth (cotton) and the main problem (in photography) is the lack of light, despite the large number of chinese bulbs.

[@technomikelyons]

Probably any pure green matte paint would work as long as you can apply it evenly and light it properly. The software should let you pick the green right from the video clip.

[@WarrenPete]

Glad I watched this before buying a “proper” green screen.

[@FXhome]

Happy to help!

[@alimkotwal5876]

Sir please make a video on venom transformation please sir

[@HakanBacon]

God before I bought a Greenscreen I used 4 A2 size paper thingies for like 2 bucks. It did work well but yes, the wasted time jeez

[@LaughingPsycho]

I've used A4 green card with no problems.

[@martinstudios316]

Party paper

[@BroswithdaLegos]

Gah! The different cameras filming him talking at the beginning are all at different framerates and it's giving me a headache!

[@firepilot21studios62]

Bruh

[@markdavies5376]

Your setup with green paper was awful.Other videos demonstrate that green paper can be excellent