This guy avoided painting his walls by buying a bit of MDF.Those who are new to this editing world must be curious to know about what is Chroma Key processing and how it is done. If you don't want to repaint your walls, you can buy sheets of cloth specifically made for the purpose, but these can be pretty expensive. You are of course going to need a green screen of some kind. I happen to have to have repainted my office walls a bright lime green which works reasonably well for chroma-keying - I can't film my full body, since the carpet isn't green, but for most purposes it's more than sufficient.

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Today I want to show you how to do green screening in iMovie, and Adobe Premiere. In fact, any color can theoretically be used, but since green rarely occurs on the human body or clothing and offers a good contrast, it's the most commonly used. An obvious example is the weather, where a presenter will stand in front of what appears to be a giant map - in fact, they're standing in front of a green screen and the weather map is being added later.Īll you really need to get started is some video footage of yourself with a green, or blue, background. Technically known as chroma-keying, green screening is the process of masking a video using color - removing specific parts so you can overlay one video on top of another.

Chroma keying in premiere pro