What is a Green Screen?
A green screen or chroma key allows
Requirements
- Windows 8.1 or 10
- OSX
Instructions
Green Screen Tutorial - Beginner (OBS)
Please note that these instructions are provided for staff and students with a school issued device. Students with BYOD devices Click Here to download from OBSProject.
Steps
- Open Software Center.
- Click on OBS Studio to view more details and select Install.
- Once complete you will find OBS Studio in your Start Menu. Open OBS Studio.
- Once open remove the Display capture source by selecting it and clicking the minus button.
- To add a video source, click the plus icon and select video capture device
- Click OK.
- Click OK.
- Resize the webcam capture by dragging the corner of the red outline.
- Right click video capture device and select filters.
- Click the plus icon at the bottom of the effect filters box and apply a chroma key.
- Click OK.
- Click close.
- To add background elements click the plus icon in the sources tab and select media source for a video or image for a photo.
- Click OK.
- Click browse and find the desired file
- (if It’s a video) Click loop
- Click OK.
- Adjust the order of the sources to your heart's content by selecting a source and clicking the up and down arrows.
Green Screen Tutorial - Advanced (Premiere Pro)
For staff and students with BYOD devices please ensure that you Click Here to download the Adobe Creative Cloud launcher application from the Adobe website.
Steps
- Open Software center on your device.
- Click on Adobe Creative Cloud to view more details and select Install.
- Once complete you will find Adobe Creative Cloud in your Start Menu. Open Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Sign in with your learnlink information (Your account must be assigned an Adobe Creative Cloud license)
- Enter in your password.
- Install Adobe Premiere Pro from the Adobe Creative Cloud Launcher
- Open Adobe Premiere Pro and select New Project.
- Enter text into the field to name your project and click OK.
- Click File > New > Sequence
- Click the settings tab
- Click editing mode, scroll to the top of the list and select custom.
- Click timebase, scroll to the top of the list and select 30 frames/second.
- Click into the horizontal frame size box and type in 1280. Click into the vertical frame size box and type in 720.
- Click Pixel aspect ratio, scroll to the top of the list and select Square pixels.
- Click OK.
- Click the Assembly tab.
- Hit Ctrl + i to import media.
- Drag the imported media to the timeline.
- Click Keep existing settings.
- Click the Effects tab.
- Expand the Video effects folder in the Effects panel.
- Expand the Keying folder.
- Drag the Ultra key effect onto the desired clip in the timeline and watch it appear in the Effect controls panel in the upper left corner.
- Select the eyedropper tool.
- Click on the green screen in the preview panel and the green will disappear
- Hit Ctrl + i to import media to be placed underneath the keyed media.
- Drag the green screen video up one track on the timeline.
- Drag the newly imported media to the timeline below the green screen media.
- Done!