Setup A Green Screen in OBS Studio for Streaming

Everyone I see on Twitch is using Green Screens wrong, every tutorial I see is telling you how to set them up wrong, today we are fixing that, you will learn where to get one, how to set it up, and light it properly for OBS or Streamlabs, and most importantly I am going to give you dozens of backgrounds to perfectly trick your viewers into thinking you have the coolest or funniest stream room in existence.

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How To Position A Green Screen For OBS

Okay, lets grab the green screen, , you don’t want your green screen too far away, or too close to you, if its too close, you’ll get harsh shadows from your shoulders and back, but too far and it won’t cover enough of the frame to remove.

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Open OBS, find your webcam source, add a Filter, and select Colour Key, then click custom colour, and use the select tool to pick the most even part of your green screen, if that doesn’t get much, keep trying until the MOST of the screen is gone without it removing you obviously.

Next you’re going to use Similarity to change how many similar shades of green are being removed, just lightly adjust this, and you’ll use smoothness to smooth out the fall off on the edges of the green around you. If you can’t get it nice, without removing part of yourself.

It might be time to add another light to remove dark spots or even adjust your main lights to have less brightspots, essentially, slowly adjust your lights and filter settings until it’s evenly lit, and cleaned.

Once you do, if you have little edges where you can’t get the greenscreen to cover, just hold alt on your keyboard, click the edge of the cam, and drag it in.

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0:00 What You Need to setup a Green Screen In OBS for streaming
1:56 Sponsor Segment - Best Streamer Overlays and Graphics For Beginners! - Own3d
2:23 What Budget Lights To Buy For Streaming
3:32 How To Add A Webcam to OBS
3:56 Best Webcam Settings In OBS For Streaming & Green Screens
5:21 How To Light A Green Screen Properly In OBS
6:28 How To Set White Balance In OBS
7:00 Why Webcam Placement Can Ruin Your Green Screen
7:24 How To Position A Green Screen
8:00 How To Add A Chroma Key Filter To OBS To Remove A Green Screen
8:41 How To Use Green Screen Backgrounds to Grow as a Streamer

How To Light A Green Screen

Let’s start by turning on what we call our Keylight, so for me that is my Light I have position to my right, about 45 degrees, and about 10 cm higher than my eyes. It is a bit dark, so we’re going to slowly raise the brightness until it starts to look nicely lit, not too dark, not too bright.

Instantly this is beginning to feel better, but the light is so far to my right, so I get shadows over this side, to fix this, I turn on my other light to “fill in” the other side. And I will do the same slowly raising the brightness.

If you end up not having two lights, you’ll just want to move your “key light” to 25 degrees, and ease the brightness, this way you still get nice shading across your face, without it being so harshly from one side.

Instantly you can see this is so much better, that’s because I’m using directional light, to light the key subject, aka myself, AND most importantly I set my webcam or camera to its base exposure, and then lit myself properly rather than trying to digitally increase my brightness.

I also set my white balance correctly.

This is a step most people mess up, and it will make your green screen section BRUTAL later. Earlier I talked about lights being Bi-Colour, or a Kelvin range, this is essentially the temperature or white balance the light they produce is, I like to set my lights to 4700 Kelvin, and then on my webcam I set it to 4700 Kelvin as well to match. It is important you match these, if you don’t you’ll get washed out, look green, red or another technical term… just f**king trash.

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[GDScriptDude]

It must be so much fun to play around with backgrounds, I can't wait to try the green screen stuff out. Hopefully the green tarp sheet that I bought will work.

[Aix_Plainer]

The resizing-thing with Alt was literally THE thing i was looking for online (i got a small round greenscreen you can mount behind your chair and i needed to get rid of the edges, without zooming all the way in). Thanks mate!

[AxiMidEdits]

You HAve helped me some much I have gotten 2k because of your help

[Noxjas]

The discord censor sound at 7:03 messed me up bad trying to find where it came

[Iamchuca]

Love your videos. I’ve used a lot of your content to set up my stream, much appreciated. I’m using my Steam Deck with no PC and seriously wondering how far I can push this before I do need to use one. The videos I’ve posted to twitch don’t look bad so far but its’s making me wonder 😅😅

[godman]

This is going to help me a lot in the future

[TheBronyGamer]

The camera I use for streaming is plugged in, cause the one built inside it doesn't work. Will this green screen method still work?

[piscesmikey]

Holy chit, good vibes right off the bat... I just bought the _exact_ web cam used here...

[alluringlifestyleproperties]

My lighting is still crap but I think the 4700 kelvin got me where I need to be for now!

[DylanSchwenker]

i know this is random and from a video from 2 years ago but i bought one of those full stream packages from that website linked in ur vid and it didnt have the option for english? only diff countries? do u no if i can get a refund or not?

[Tropix_]

Unrelated question, are you on windows 11?

[mattastic]

Thanks for the lighting tips I wish you would have shown how to actually add the background. That part wasn’t so clear.

[sylviatremblayfitsystem]

thanks for this video, it help a lot. However, I'm doing training fitness videos and I can't find out how to make my videos look good. My green screen always show up. I move a lot during my videos so we can see a blury green color on the contour of my body and sometimes my cloths are kind of weird looking. Can you help please.

[aaronchambers]

I always enjoy watching your videos on "how to", "what to do", and "what to buy or not buy" because I enjoy how goofy you are. I mean that in a really good positive way. You like to have fun and that is the best part of your videos.
Thank you! I mean really, thank you. I needed to see this video. An updated 2023 video on Green screens. I just got mine a month ago and to be honest, it just sits behind me blocking things I don't want anyone to see because of where I have my system set up. I am just starting up, I put everything on hold because I wanted to try to do it right and to learn from watching you and a few others that I think are really good at sharing information.

So yes, I hope after I watch this a number of times I can go home and finalize my set up.

Kudos to you mate! :) 🤪☝👏
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[BenjiDWJ]

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[spectakil]

I find my c922 looks fine but I got sick of having to set it up every time. I upgraded to a Sony a5100 and it is amazing. Very little setup required.

[krowland]

Me love you for this. Soooo helpful. Thank you!

[ScarnonVT]

Gee, Green Screen Eljay, you've lost weight!

[GalarianGuy]

One awful thing about adjusting the camera settings is that for some reason OBS likes to reset the settings when the PC is shut down (it used to do it when I closed OBS but now it stays), so you're having to set them up every time you want to stream 🤔

[chrisltomlinson]

Lame. If you want your background to be a spaceship, just build a set. If you want to film in "the woods", just go drive to the nearest state park and set up.

I kid.

Great video!

So....what the heck do people with green eyes do?