ADVANCED Green Screen Tips and Tricks for VFX (Myths - BUSTED)

Today we are going to bust some green screen myths
Green Screen Myths BUSTED
Green Screen Best Practices (Advanced)
Don't believe everything you see or read on the internet

Try to get it as even as possible. Read nothing more and you will find a list of some green screen ideas. And I have used in the video description. Hey, and it always makes sense to also buy some of those here. You can only get the middle of the green screen super flat. Well, then place your actor there.

No, the middle makes the most issues. Well, they move your actor to the side, but now I can see the floor. Hey, have you actually realized that? I have not keep my feet and the chair because there was no green screen? Again, we only need green screen where we need it. If your green screen is too small, then decide on what's most important.

And in this case, it's my head and my hands. Because also, the more green you have, the more green spills you will have and also the harder it will be to get the lights just right. So off to number two, setting up the lights. Where shall I put that Right after number two, setting up the camera, because that defines what you see in the end.

And this has a lot of impact on the lights as well it as well as the placement of the lights. So two things are important to you. First of all, the video codec, the best codec gives you the best results. And unfortunately, that's how it is. That may also be the reason why today's movies are not shot with the newest smartphone.

So I'm filming this on a smartphone and this on the Canon EOS, R5 C, both on their best settings and I really hope you see the difference. You can see the difference. So here's a Protip before placing your actor in front of the camera, quickly do a keying test only with one click. Now you see. So and second is the resolution.

Because the bigger the stencil, the easier it is to cut out. So think outside of the box. Here are simply rotate the box to get almost twice the size. Oh, what about shutter speed to get less motion blur for an easier key? Okay, just real quick. If you have a fast shutter keying will be easier, but the result will look as if you have set your shutter 12 Wrong number because while you have.

But I can fix that in post-production. Also, this is true if the movement is not that fast and not too much movement overall. But wait, if this is the case anyways, then you really don't have to reduce the shutter anyway. And if you really want to cut the shutter by half, you also only have half the amount of light coming in and that may be your bigger problem.

That's my room light as well as the green screen light. But having the green screen close to the actor also causes some more spill. Yes, because there's a difference between close and close. You also don't want to cast too much shadow on the green screen. And as soon as that is gone, you should be far away enough. And by the way, your spur concerns when keying in after effects, the key light effect removes spilled by default.

Oh, and if you disable that feature, there's also dedicated effect called Advanced Boo Killer. Basically, those effects are there, so you have a little bit more freedom to play with while shooting. So in a nutshell, if you have super expensive light that gets the job done and your studio is super big, great use that. If you are a YouTuber and your bedroom is just and you and you need five cheap lights to do the same thing, well I don't care on awesome sets.

The more often you do it, the better you get. Because if you only try to follow the instructions, you will not learn how to light a green screen. You will just learn how to follow instructions. Enough movie quotes for most lights. This works best. If you're not, shoot them straight on the green as this provides you with some hotspots.

And now comes the super cool visual effects on set trick that no one ever talks about. Hey, until now, how bright should the green screen be? You ever thought about making the green darker when there's something dark in the background and make it brighter? If there's something bright in the background? Is that too bright and is this too dark?

This is 160 ISO. Hey, wait. Now the image just got darker and we need either more light again or bring up the iso again. And this is with the way higher iso you. No, here's the shot as you see it. A little too dark. Yeah, here it is with 400 iso. Perfect. Now it is a one click on both of them.

Whoa. Holy moly. The far iso looks great on camera and like a big Swiss cheese in post-production. But wait, the one that was simply a little bit too dark looks great in terms of kin. Oh. Oh great idea. Now was just a small adjustment. It is as bright as the other one, but it looks way better. You know, it is simply easier to make it a little brighter than removing all the grain.

And for now, I wish you a lot of fundamentals and a lot of fun in After Effects.

#greenscreen #postproduction #aftereffects #keying

[tosifvfxartist]

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[leo.oliveira.trailers]

Great video. I've seen several tutorials on greenscreen and VFX on YouTube, but yours are on another level and this video is proof of it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 😉

[Psychoirrel]

dude i loved this less cringe style of tutorial. i learned so much from you but sometimes its get little hard to watch but this one flowed. i didnt even notice its been 10 mins.

[rickarroyo]

Great tips!
Do you usually use a light wrapper plugin to make it more natural and integrated or does it depend on the context of your background?
Thanks! :)

[adnankhanfilms]

And what is the preferable picture profile LOG or Standard one?

[fahmiraza]

Always awesome and i need to know if you don't have proper green screen or light setup is there any way to for bad green screen remove and one more request please make tutorial about vfx which is viral like Omegle type

[themuckyman]

What is better than great green screen tips ? easy....
Great green screen tips from an expert who knows what he is doing !
Thanks for your time Flo.

[phu.realcorp]

Great tips, thank you so much
I hope you can do more

[GeorgiyMusic]

Thank you for your tutorials. Here is my question how to track my video with a green screen scene whiout any trackers (point or diamonds pluses for tracking on green screen). On screen just me, wall and plan is green screen

[brandhuetv]

thanks for the tips for motion blur and iso, but how about many depth of field in 1 image?

[aybee]

Nice tips for budget filmers. Another one: Spray water on wrinkles and let dry. Don`t iron it, it gets shiny.

[barefootuptomysoul]

It was the tutorials you did where you faked sitting on a train that blew me away. You were at the bottom of the stairs in your apartment and the green clothe was as sloppy as can be. The smart phone camera in the portrait postition to get the whole body that was sitting right on the green clothe. Wrinkles everywhere. But you put it into AE, and masked out a lot witg feathering, you layered your subject (you) to get the detail of the hair! and WOW! But then in other tutorials you made a layer copy for the background and blurred that to get day for night or just matching background lighting to the subject you greenscreened and again WOW! The subject looked like it he she was part of the scene and not washed flat in. I could go on and on but those old tutorials of yours were just perfect!

My cameras besides the iPhone and iPad and Android are the Nikon D5100 (native ISO 200) (in portrait mode) and the Canon EOS C100 mark i (native ISO 800) with Atomos Ninja V to record ProRes 422 HQ. I would love to share with your other users some footage like Jean Claude Van Damme so we can come up with interesting and funny short clips.

My lighting is 3 points on my actor and 2 points on the screen as seen in a tutorial by Adorama. The 2 points cross evenly. So Right to Left not Right to Right. Left to Right not Left to Left.


I just moved into a new old apartment in February with a long not wide studio so full figure is possible and still be 5' or 2 meters away from green (or blue) screen. This is so exciting!

[DFMoray]

Here’s a crazy shot I have to do:
Night, ext, A remote controlled helicopter from below, made to look like a real helicopter, shot on a fisheye lens. It flies perfectly straight over the camera.
I have to deal with the motion blur of the helicopter flying and also the blades spinning.
How would you guys do it?

[litschifilm]

another nice tutorial! thanks for sharing your tricks with us.. but one thing noone talks about is if Shooting LOG or a flat imageprofile helps or worsens the image. i would guess that an log profile actually wouldnt help for the key since you remove most of the kontrast!? but i'm really not sure on thet.. also using the waveform as an reference of how even the background is lit is another good tipp you maybe missed ;)