Best Green Screen Camera Settings

Your green screen camera settings are wrong! Why? Because mine were too, despite shooting green screen for years. In this video, I will tell you my NEW secrets I discovered by doing several days of testing. And it is not just about aperture and shutter speed. There are a few tricks that you can use to get a much more even green screen background by just changing camera settings. Let me know if they helped you get better green screen results too.

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00:00 Intro
00:11 general camera settings (secrets ;))
03:54 exposure settings
05:45 how bright to set the background
07:16 bonus tips

[Sylvqin]

I already wrote a comment on the green screen setup video, but here I go again: thanks SO much for the great content you’re offering. I’ve been working on my little studio following a lot of your advices and I couldn’t be more happy with the results. Thanks again and you deserve a lot of success on YouTube! Wishing you the best.

[haribehappy]

Hi Wolf,
I thought of leaving words of appreciation for you.
As someone who does photography out of passion, I stumbled upon your videos. Your videos, coupled with your maturity, are a treat to watch. I understand the effort and dedication that go into producing each of your videos, therefore, I wanted to show my appreciation for you and your work in photography. Photography is not about gimmicks (expensive, large inventory of equipment, photo manipulation, editing applications, AI etc.), but it's about how telling beautiful stories with less, which is evident in your work. Keep up your great work and continue delighting your viewers with your journey in photography! 📸 🌅 🙏🏼
In a related note, not every person is blessed to have a spouse (partner) who supports and be a part of one's passion. You are blessed with a lovely partner and a gift of love. May the Lord bless you both in your lovely journey together! 🙏🏼

[beeeev]

Never heard the tip about shutter speed before. Makes sense now. Thank you

[henrytheturnip]

Your typography is on point too, I love your font choices, and also your use of the rule of thirds. Liked and subbed.

[mahailiaXoXo]

Great video, Wolf! I love the way you explain everything clearly with simple examples. Your content is very helpful. Thank you!

[BenjiSchwimmerDance]

Your teaching ability and presentation are phenomenal. Thank you !!!

[FMRNathan]

Your channel is rather unique. Keep it up you helped so much with all your videos

[MarceloLossMusic]

Thank you very much, super top, I have a question, can I use a shutter speed of 1/100 or 1/120 even when recording at 30 FPS? my sony a6400 camera does not have 60 fps in 4k!

[tomcarr]

Hi Wolf, your green screen video series is awesome, love it. Green screen film and removal works great except MOTION BLUR BETWEEN FINGERS. I'm using your 10' room lighting set up with two 150w soft box for screen and talent and two 20w tubes for rim lights, all up to max (I also have two more single points with barn doors but ceiling is 7.5' so you said use tubes), have Westcott screen taut 10' wide, 7.5' high. Have tried several setups, but this works the best. I have Blackmagic pcc4k using Rokinon Cine DS 24mm MFT lens and Davinci resolve. At 1/125 shutter speed, f/5.6, iso 640, my false color is pink on screen and face (a bit over-exposed, pushed, nice for adjust/pull in Davinci). light meter shows f/6.8 on face, f/4.8 on screen. Shooting Braw 3:1 4k, so about 3.5gb/min, lots of data. I bumped shutter to 1/200, f/3.5, didn't fix it. Ugly green between fingers looks like a mix of skin color and chroma, when I key on green between fingers, I still see skin color with green removed, . Your 1/100 shutter speed didn't have this problem in your video. Did you fix in post or I'm doing something else wrong? Any suggestions?

[NeverfailVocals]

Can you use a DJI osmo pocket 3 for green screen??? Are there any specific settings that are different than you explained? thanks for your videos! really helpful!

[jurandfantom]

Damn man, just found your channel and I love it! Hopefully you will be back to recording and you are fine. Can't imagine amount of editing you put to those videos, but quality and everything? its beautiful!

[david-otgi]

So well presented, really helpful, thank you

[josema]

Gracias. Me ha sido muy útil su explicación.

[TheDigitalLearningConsultant]

Hey Wolf - when editing footage, I’m assuming I colour grade etc first before keying?

[nelsakerlund]

Great video Wolf! Would you have any recommendations on how to align background photos with green screen footage during the shoot (before editing)? Thanks!

[Jambo]

My Sony A7SIII does not exactly have an APSC setting. There is a "clear image zoom" I could try. First I am going to switch to "Active Stabilization" which has a little crop, and see if that improves the key.

[LesVegasMusic]

@wolfamri regarding shutter speed, I have the Sony a7s III and only have the options of 1/105 or 1/125 – not 1/100 or 1/120 as you suggested. I'm assuming I should use 1/125 for best results, but found it odd I have different shutter speed options than you. Is there a setting I need to turn on to get 1/100 or 1/120? Thanks so much!

[JustinPulliam]

Great video. Wish I had this to watch years ago.

[LesVegasMusic]

Hey @wolfamri ! I also noticed that I can't turn on APS-C S35 Shooting mode if any of the 4k File Format's are selected while in Movie Mode. I can only select APS-C S35 Shooting mode if shooting in XAVC S HD or XAVC S-I HD. However, I noticed when I switch the camera to Manual mode (not the little Film icon on the dial) than I can turn on APS-C shooting mode. So, that's the mode I'll use, but I'm wondering why I'm seeing so many others here on youtube saying to choose Movie mode as the first thing you do when shooting video with the A7S III.

[UnwantedCommentary]

WOW SUCH INSIGHT IN JUST THE FIRST MINUTE!