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I am looking to edit some videos that I have and they are green screen…is there any good free software? Not trails. I haven't been able to find any legit stuff.

From: 14578
I am looking to edit some videos that I have and they are green screen…is there any good free software? Not trails. I haven't been able to find any legit stuff.

You can download Adobe Premeire it has a badass keyer in that, After effects will have the best, secondly could be final cut pro if your mac based.

Just dont forget regardless how good of software you have if the product isnt shot in 4-2-2 or even better 4-4-4 the data will be hard…

Something you can control is the lighting you need seperation from the background. You need to have a nice edge, with even lighting on the background so the contrast of the greenscreen is even and then to give you a edge to make you pop so when you key out the green you dont cut out parts of your body outline.


What kind of content are you doing? What is your green screen made out of? chroma key green paint or a chrome key green backdrop cloth?


I can help you rig up a great lighting set up with working on a buget and will make your finnished product look like a million bucks and not cheesy.

I just went a bought some green fabric lol….probably not the best.

From: 14578
I just went a bought some green fabric lol….probably not the best.

What type of content are you looking to do? Give me a idea, I'll help you out with getting the best results.

Hmm….well I am helping my younger sister with a project for school. She is doing a middle ages theme. She has her character, a puppet, in front of the green screen and she wants it to walk through a "village' but we don't have the time nor place to set up a real village so we are trying to use a green screen…I also heard blue screen could be better.

From: 14578
Hmm….well I am helping my younger sister with a project for school. She is doing a middle ages theme. She has her character, a puppet, in front of the green screen and she wants it to walk through a "village' but we don't have the time nor place to set up a real village so we are trying to use a green screen…I also heard blue screen could be better.

Chroma green for indoors, chroma orange for outdoors, chrome blue for SFX in sets– green and blue are very common outdoors.

Chroma green is easier to do;

this is what you are going to need. All these props are very easy to make.

I'll give you a basic 3 point lighting set up.

Step 1 make sure your background Green has no wrinkles, iron it out until its nice & solid.

Give some seperation from the background so I'd say 3ft from the background so it avoids shadows.

Get some china balls from your local store; hand 3 with 100wat bulbs for the background. Then take your local fluresent light, make sure its 55wats or better; 2 tubes will work. Use that for your key light source. Make sure whatever your subject is put that light in a 90 degree angel. So if its straight on your from the puppet you'll want to move it about 4 steps to your right, then on your left hand side with the 90 degree angle you'll want to grab a white board anything white and something that is like 24x30 or semi large enough to bounce light…You can buy 1/2 inch foamcore from home depot for 4$ that will work perfectly. Make sure you have someone holding that, and then take another light, it can be another fluresent light and shine it directly into that foam core and allow that light to bounce into the subject…this light is called your fill light;

then grab another light something hard light; at walmart they sell spot bulbs buy one of those buy at 20wats or 30wats and keep it about 5ft away from the subject and have it shoot at the top of the subjects head and this light is called your rim light…

Lastly take another light and just shoot it at the back of the talents shoulder and this will be your edge…

Now you have proper lighting made on a budget all for under 20$

if you have facetime or skype I can walk you through step by step on how to light it; then shoot it and I can show you how easy it is to key out the green and insert any image / video in the back drop