[0:00] What's up guys. Welcome back once again
[0:02] to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel
[0:05] today we're going to be talking about green
[0:06] screens and how you can use a green
[0:08] screen within your stream so you can do
[0:11] cool things, actually one sec, like this!
[0:17] Now obviously I'll throw some other
[0:19] examples of streamers using a green
[0:22] screen and some of the creative ways
[0:23] that they have used them to incorporate
[0:26] some funny or epic moments into their
[0:30] stream but in this video we're going to
[0:31] be going through why you'd want to use a
[0:33] green screen for your stream, what
[0:35] equipment you need exactly and I'm going
[0:36] to be covering different budgets for
[0:38] this so right from the cheapest way of
[0:40] implementing a green screen up to
[0:42] something more expensive like the elgato
[0:44] green screen that I've got. We're also
[0:46] going to be talking about how you can
[0:48] use a green screen in OBS and streamlabs
[0:50] OBS, so exactly how you set it up to
[0:53] chroma key out the background. And
[0:54] finally I'll be going over some tips and
[0:56] tricks for lighting and exactly how you
[0:59] want to set up your green screen to make
[1:02] sure you get the crispest image. All of
[1:04] that coming up!
[1:12] So obviously the main purpose of having
[1:14] a green screen is to be able to cut your
[1:16] talent out from their background and
[1:19] then you can overlay that talent on
[1:21] your game or maybe it's your
[1:23] desktop or your twitch chat or whatever
[1:25] you want to do. But the idea is that you
[1:26] can have both your your talent and some
[1:29] sort of background in the same shot
[1:31] composited one above the other. So what
[1:33] you're going to need to be able to achieve
[1:34] this look is obviously a camera of some
[1:38] sort.
[1:39] This can be a webcam, it can be
[1:40] a camera plugged into an elgato
[1:43] cam link like mine is and basically
[1:45] the the higher resolution, the more
[1:47] detail you're going to get and the better
[1:49] quality the cut between the talent and
[1:52] the green is going to be. So I would
[1:54] recommend certainly using one of the
[1:56] higher-end webcams to achieve really
[1:58] great results.
[1:58] Something like the Logitech c920 which
[2:01] is often recommended. I've been
[2:02] recommending it in my kits for absolutely
[2:04] ages. That will do absolutely brilliantly, but
[2:07] if you have the luxury of being able to
[2:08] use an actual camera mirrorless or DSLR,
[2:10] plugged into a capture device like the
[2:12] elgato cam link, then that will do even
[2:14] better. In terms of the actual green
[2:16] screens, it's one of those things that's
[2:18] going to be completely dependent on your
[2:19] budget. Here on Amazon I found three
[2:22] different types of green screen for
[2:24] three different budgets so hopefully one
[2:26] of these will be perfect for you. At
[2:28] the start we've got these sort of
[2:30] foldable green or blue screens that they
[2:33] sort of fold up into a circle similar to
[2:35] some of those pop-up tents that you can
[2:37] get for camping and festivals and things
[2:38] like that. So they pack away nice and
[2:40] small but when they actually open up
[2:42] they open up to a decent size. The
[2:43] difficulty with these is that they have
[2:45] to be hung or placed against
[2:49] the wall or something like that, so these
[2:51] are really great if you have the ability
[2:54] to be able to hang it or to be able to
[2:55] put it against the wall if that is what
[2:57] your streaming setup is but they're
[2:59] super cheap and you know you can't
[3:01] really go wrong with something like this
[3:02] for forty dollars. Next up you have the
[3:05] traditional green screen which is the
[3:06] green material. This one here is is nice
[3:10] and large 9 by 15 feet, comes with three
[3:13] clips but you would need to have a place
[3:16] to secure it to and most of you I
[3:18] imagine would have to purchase something
[3:19] like this, so a studio rail
[3:22] which is two light stands with a beam
[3:26] across the top which you can hoop
[3:27] through the green screen. These are
[3:30] pretty much what a traditional green
[3:32] screen setup is, something nice and large,
[3:34] does take up quite a bit of room but can
[3:37] pack down quite quickly unless you're
[3:40] going to leave it up the whole time. But
[3:41] this is the traditional sort of around
[3:43] $50-60 when you factor in both the stand
[3:46] as well as the green screen. Then
[3:48] finally we have what I have, which is the
[3:50] new elgato green screen. Well I say new,
[3:52] it's probably been out for six months or
[3:54] so now, super handy, super convenient,
[3:57] packs all the way down into its body has
[4:01] its own support beams at the back so you
[4:03] can set it to any height. I've absolutely
[4:05] loved the product but it is on the
[4:07] pricey side, so I think this is the ideal
[4:10] solution and there isn't really any
[4:11] competitor for it in terms of how
[4:13] convenient it is and how quickly it
[4:15] packs away and you can set it up but it
[4:17] is a little bit pricey, so I understand
[4:19] for some people this might be out of
[4:20] budget. The last bit of equipment that
[4:22] you're going to need is some decent
[4:24] lighting, now you might not think that
[4:26] lighting is that much of a key aspect in
[4:28] terms of a green screens, you actually
[4:30] need to be able to light both your
[4:32] talent or your subject yourself I would
[4:34] imagine, as well as the green screen
[4:36] separately to make sure that you have
[4:38] that consistent green color which is
[4:40] going to make it much easier when it
[4:41] comes to chroma keying it out. I've got a
[4:43] couple of examples here on Amazon, the
[4:45] neewer 160 is a very popular light for
[4:48] filmmakers, gets very very bright even in
[4:51] such a small panel or something like the
[4:53] VILTROX panel as well, there's so
[4:55] many of these LED light kits on Amazon
[4:58] I'm sure you can find one that is large
[4:59] enough for you but the main purpose
[5:01] obviously is to be able to light
[5:03] yourself as well as your green screen
[5:05] independently so you might need to pick
[5:07] up a couple of these kits. A couple of
[5:08] tips to do with the actual lighting, the
[5:11] further away the green screen is from
[5:13] the talent, so the bigger the distance
[5:15] between the talent and the green screen,
[5:17] the less harsh the shadows are going to
[5:18] be so if you're stood right next to your
[5:20] green screen and you may have to be,
[5:21] you're going to get harsher shadows and
[5:23] in that case you probably are going to
[5:25] want to light the green screen
[5:27] separately with a second light source.
[5:29] Before we jump into OBS and streamlabs
[5:31] OBS,
[5:32] one tip would be that you don't want the
[5:35] green screen to be too narrow
[5:37] when surrounding your talent or yourself,
[5:40] you want to have some leeway so that the
[5:43] person on screen can raise
[5:44] their hands and things like that without
[5:46] the hands being cut off because of the
[5:48] narrow green screen.
[5:49] The second thing worth mentioning is
[5:51] that keying out in OBS or any of these
[5:54] programs is actually quite CPU intensive,
[5:56] so if you are struggling to keep frame
[5:59] rates and not drop frames anyway, you
[6:01] might consider maybe just having a
[6:02] normal webcam without any keying because
[6:04] it is a CPU intensive task, your computer
[6:07] is having to do all the processing of
[6:08] removing that background information and
[6:10] so just bear that in mind if you're
[6:12] having any issues. Ok so here we are in
[6:15] OBS and the first thing that we want to
[6:17] do probably is just to play around with
[6:19] the cropping of our webcam to make sure
[6:21] that it's completely surrounded by green.
[6:22] I've just got an example scene set up
[6:24] here with a picture of
[6:27] fortnight just as if I was playing it
[6:28] and my webcam camera in the bottom
[6:31] corner so the first thing you want to do
[6:32] is crop the webcam to make sure that we
[6:34] are completely surrounded by green and
[6:36] this section just here where you can see
[6:38] some of my background shelving unit
[6:40] isn't changed. So to do that you can hold
[6:42] down the Alt key and drag in any of the
[6:44] areas that you want to crop, so I'm
[6:46] just going to drag in the sides a little
[6:47] bit, so they're surrounded by green and
[6:49] the top right just a touch and there we
[6:52] go.
[6:52] Now I am completely surrounded by green.
[6:54] My background isn't completely the same
[6:56] color but it's a pretty good attempt. So
[6:59] next we're going to be looking at removing
[7:00] this green background so that I can sit
[7:02] just on top of the game layer, to do that
[7:04] we want to come down to the camera
[7:05] source here or your webcam source, right
[7:08] click and go to filters, now you can see
[7:10] in the effect filters list, we do
[7:12] actually have the LUT that we set up a
[7:14] couple of weeks ago, so if you haven't
[7:15] yet watched that video of how to add
[7:16] filters and LUTs to your webcam to
[7:19] change the look and make them look
[7:20] a little bit more cinematic, do go and
[7:22] check out that video, I'll link it up in
[7:23] the top card, but we're just going to have
[7:25] that disabled for now and we're going to
[7:27] come and add a new effect filter by
[7:28] clicking the plus icon and selecting
[7:30] chroma key. Obviously you can name this
[7:32] whatever you want, chroma key works for
[7:34] me so I'm just going to leave it at its
[7:35] default and click OK. Now you can see as
[7:38] soon as I click OK, OBS has applied its
[7:41] default settings which is a green chroma
[7:43] key and you can see it's done a pretty
[7:45] decent job really, if you look to
[7:46] the bottom corner where it's already
[7:47] been cropped, it's not bad. There's a
[7:49] little bit of green on my shoulders and
[7:52] in my hair, obviously blonde hair and
[7:54] light colored t-shirts aren't ideal to wear
[7:56] for this but I thought I would challenge
[7:57] myself and get the settings perfect for
[8:00] you guys. So the first option that we have is
[8:02] this key color type and you have the
[8:05] choice between green blue magenta as
[8:07] well as a custom color, this is just the
[8:09] color of the screen behind you that you
[8:11] are wanting to remove so that the most
[8:12] typical ones are green and blue.
[8:14] Obviously they've got the option of a
[8:15] magenta or by keying in your custom
[8:18] color if you know exactly what it is or
[8:21] you can use the color picker. I've
[8:22] actually found that for the elgato green
[8:24] screen I'm using the green one seems to
[8:26] work the best so I'm going to leave it at
[8:27] green and then move on to the other
[8:29] options. Similarity is on a scale of 1 to
[8:32] 1000 so if you drag this left and right
[8:34] you can see it's choosing how similar of
[8:37] a color to the green that they've got
[8:38] set you want to remove. So if I lower
[8:40] this you can see that some of the darker
[8:42] areas in the bottom corners of my green
[8:43] screen are still showing so you want to
[8:44] get this to the point where all the
[8:46] green screen is removed but you know
[8:47] none of your t-shirt or your body or
[8:49] your face so around 400 seems to work
[8:54] quite well for me. Next we have
[8:55] smoothness and this is how smooth of the
[8:58] keying effect will be so again you don't
[9:00] be removing any of your t-shirt or your
[9:02] hair by going too high so somewhere
[9:05] around 100 seems to work quite well for
[9:06] me but this will be completely dependent
[9:07] on your your setup and your lighting and
[9:10] all those kind of things your camera. Key
[9:11] color spill reduction this is just
[9:13] trying to reduce the amount of spill
[9:15] that might appear on the shoulders or in
[9:17] the hair if you certainly if you have
[9:19] blond hair it's a little bit more
[9:20] difficult so you're just trying to
[9:21] remove that spill of green from those
[9:24] areas and that looks pretty decent
[9:26] actually. Then finally you have some
[9:28] options for a contrast, brightness,
[9:30] gamma, those kind of things I'm going to
[9:32] leave these all as default but do feel
[9:34] free to play around if you need to and
[9:36] then if we can just click close and you
[9:37] can see that has now applied my green
[9:39] screen effect and you can see how clear
[9:41] that is, if I hold my hand up especially
[9:43] you can see straight through my fingers
[9:44] onto the green screen. There is still a
[9:46] little bit of green color in my hair so
[9:49] I would probably go back into the
[9:51] settings and just make sure that I'm
[9:52] fine-tuning to make sure that that is
[9:54] removed but bearing in mind I haven't
[9:57] set of any sort of lights just specific
[10:00] for the background here and I've tried
[10:02] to make it challenging as possible by
[10:03] wearing a light t-shirt and obviously
[10:05] having blonde hair, I think that looks
[10:08] pretty decent. I'm just going to go back in
[10:09] and just play a tiny bit just to try and
[10:12] remove that green from my hair, so I
[10:14] should be able to play around with the
[10:15] color spill a little bit and maybe the
[10:18] smoothness as well and there you go, you
[10:20] can see it's reduced now and then if you
[10:22] went back to apply your LUT you can see
[10:24] that even looks even better, so there I
[10:27] am in the bottom corner of my screen,
[10:29] obviously if I put my hands on the
[10:31] outside of where I've cropped my camera
[10:32] that's going to remove so I want to try and
[10:34] remain in this frame as much as possible
[10:35] but there I am in the bottom corner of
[10:38] my fortnight game example. If streamlabs
[10:41] OBS is your your streaming software of
[10:43] choice the process is exactly the same
[10:45] as it's part of that core OBS
[10:47] functionality that was originally moved
[10:49] across into streamlabs OBS. So all you
[10:51] have to do is find your webcam or your
[10:52] camera source, right click, filters find
[10:55] the color key and make sure you dial in
[10:58] the settings to be able to remove your
[10:59] background without removing any of your
[11:01] subject. Another really important point
[11:03] is that you want your subject not to be
[11:05] wearing any of the color that your
[11:06] background is so if your background is
[11:08] green avoid wearing any green as that
[11:10] will also be removed so if you have a
[11:11] green logo on your t-shirt or something
[11:13] like that that's obviously also going to
[11:15] be removed. Another bonus tip for OBS and
[11:18] streamlabs OBS is it's not just video
[11:20] capture devices that you can apply the
[11:23] color keying to, you could also do it to
[11:24] video so if you find some videos on the
[11:26] internet that have a green screen you
[11:28] can also apply the color key in OBS or
[11:31] streamlabs OBS to a video. One last
[11:33] thing I will mention is if you are using
[11:34] a webcam that has sort of some drivers
[11:37] installed and those things with auto
[11:39] white balance you're probably going to
[11:41] want to jump into those options and
[11:42] disable it because when auto white
[11:44] balance is enabled sometimes that's
[11:45] going to mess up what the green looks
[11:47] like and obviously OBS is looking for a
[11:49] specific color of green to remove from
[11:52] the keying so if it's going to keep
[11:53] changing white balance because of this
[11:55] auto white balance setting within the
[11:56] webcam that's going to mess up so make
[11:58] sure you disable that. The last thing
[12:00] that I will mention is just to raise the
[12:01] question do you actually want to remove
[12:03] your background from your livestream? A
[12:06] lot of people find that having a
[12:08] background with you know some things on
[12:09] shelving units I know I don't have
[12:10] anything interests
[12:11] on there yeah but over time I'd like to
[12:13] think I'm going to build up parts
[12:15] of my personality and have them on this
[12:16] shelving unit so maybe a green screen
[12:18] isn't right for you but if it is I hope
[12:20] you found this video useful, if you have
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[12:35] video. Peace!
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