How to Set Up A Green Screen in OBS and Make Amazing Overlays -- Streaming MasterClass Ep 7

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[00:19] if you couldn't tell from the title

[00:20] we're talking about green screens how to

[00:22] set them up some cool creative ideas on

[00:24] how to use them and if you couldn't tell

[00:27] I'm using a green screen right now

[00:28] probably could tell though cuz I got

[00:30] some flaws in my green screen not

[00:31] because I'm trying to teach you

[00:32] something special but because I've got a

[00:34] three-year-old and a brand new two week

[00:37] old daughter so if you feel like

[00:39] congratulating me just you know help me

[00:41] out hit the like button and congratulate

[00:43] me in the comments cuz it's 2 a.m. this

[00:45] is the only time I could shoot this and

[00:48] to save you from making some of the same

[00:50] mistakes I'm making in my green screen

[00:52] right now I'm going to tell you what

[00:53] they are so you'll be a better green

[00:54] screener than myself today how about

[00:57] that but right now you can see I've got

[00:59] the Elgato green screen XL behind me

[01:01] Elgato is not the sponsor of today's

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[01:04] will be more on that in just a little

[01:06] bit a lot of people think the only

[01:07] reason to use green screens are to put

[01:09] yourself in a cool virtual room or to

[01:11] put yourself in front of your gameplay

[01:12] without any kind of background around

[01:14] you and while yes you can do those

[01:17] things those are the most common

[01:18] applications of a green screen in

[01:19] streaming there is a lot more you can do

[01:22] I put some of those ideas together for

[01:24] you tonight so you can see them and I

[01:25] can show you how to make them things

[01:26] like this or even how to do this during

[01:28] your gameplay scene but still have a

[01:31] normal just chatting scene without a

[01:32] green screen behind you but that's

[01:34] enough of an intro I think I just enjoy

[01:35] talking to you a little bit too much

[01:37] let's get into

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[02:44] video let's get back to the master class

[02:46] there are a handful of tricks to getting

[02:48] a perfect green screen and if you don't

[02:50] do them your green screen ends up

[02:52] looking like this it's just not very

[02:55] convincing you got green around the

[02:58] edges you got some weird noisy areas

[03:01] part of my chair is fuzzy and slightly

[03:04] transparent but all of the problems with

[03:06] my green screen right now can be solved

[03:07] with three different techniques your

[03:09] green screen should be flat your green

[03:12] screen should be well lit and your green

[03:14] screen should be a little bit further

[03:16] away from you let me turn on my light

[03:18] real

[03:20] quick oh do you see how much that

[03:23] already fixed this it's not perfect

[03:25] still got some fuzzies on this side but

[03:27] that's just cuz I don't have time to set

[03:29] up another light you can see at our main

[03:30] green screen setup we've got two

[03:33] gigantic lights evenly lighting our

[03:35] entire setup because when we green

[03:37] screen that background needs to be

[03:40] perfect you'll also get a lot of people

[03:41] who ask why would you spend

[03:43] $160 on a green screen like this one

[03:45] behind me when you can go to Walmart and

[03:47] spend $10 on a green sheet and yes you

[03:50] can do that and it will absolutely work

[03:52] on a budget I did that for years but the

[03:55] reason you go for a green screen like

[03:56] this is it's flat by design a Sheet's

[03:58] going to have some waves is going to get

[04:00] some Ripples and some shadows and the

[04:01] shadowy areas are going to be harder to

[04:03] Green Screen than the lit areas and the

[04:04] third issue of being too close to your

[04:06] green screen is the reason I've got

[04:08] green and kind of some fuzziness in my

[04:10] hair it's why the part of my chair is

[04:12] transparent it's because the green is

[04:14] bouncing off the green screen and

[04:16] landing on the back of me and on my

[04:18] chair which ends up making my chair look

[04:20] green and getting green screened out in

[04:22] the process if I wanted to spend a

[04:23] little more time on my setup I would

[04:25] adjust my camera angle so I have more

[04:27] room and I would push this about at

[04:29] three or four maybe 5T further behind me

[04:32] but now that you got some green screen

[04:33] principles out of the way let's toss

[04:34] some stuff into OBS and start this from

[04:37] scratch so here we are in OBS we have

[04:40] one source and it's this camera and

[04:42] that's it the first thing we need to do

[04:44] is remove this background so what we're

[04:46] going to do is we're going to click on

[04:47] the camera we're going to go to filters

[04:48] and I know what you're thinking oh let's

[04:50] look for green screen it's not going to

[04:51] be called Green Screen this is the green

[04:53] screen the effect we're looking for is

[04:55] actually called chroma key let's click

[04:58] on that

[05:00] and look at that the green is gone

[05:03] almost because we've got some areas that

[05:04] are a little bit brighter cuz they're

[05:05] closest to the light some areas that are

[05:07] a little bit darker furthest from the

[05:08] light we've got to adjust for this we've

[05:11] got to let OBS know exactly how much

[05:13] green to grab do we want a little bit

[05:15] more yellowy green probably for this

[05:17] spot here so if we turn up the

[05:19] similarity it's going to let OBS know

[05:21] let's get some colors a little bit

[05:23] further away from

[05:25] Green you can see as I drag that up I

[05:28] only need to drag it up 9 points and

[05:30] they're all already gone I think I did a

[05:31] better job this time than I did last

[05:33] time we still have a little bit of a

[05:34] green outline and again that's mostly

[05:36] because I'm too close to the green

[05:37] screen but let's see if we can fix that

[05:39] with a little bit of

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[05:41] smoothness

[05:44] oh that's where we start to lose the

[05:46] chair I do like that though I don't have

[05:47] as much green on my face anymore kind of

[05:49] blurred some of my hair that's showing

[05:51] green through it and if we still feel

[05:54] like there's a little bit of glow of

[05:56] green on us we can reduce the color

[05:58] spill and that's going to kind of just

[06:00] suck green out of the image we don't

[06:02] want to do it too much cuz it's going to

[06:04] make us look like a black and white

[06:06] image see like

[06:08] that let's maybe give it a a tiny tiny

[06:13] bit all

[06:14] right I think that's pretty good I'm

[06:17] pretty happy with our chroma King over

[06:18] here it looks like what it's done is

[06:20] turned the green into black what it's

[06:21] actually done is turned the green

[06:22] transparent so if we put something

[06:24] behind it wait for it like let's grab

[06:26] this screenshot of gameplay of Apex

[06:28] Legends throwout behind me

[06:30] here well you can see we learned

[06:32] something here we may have turned up one

[06:34] of those settings a little too high we

[06:35] just couldn't tell when there was only a

[06:37] black background behind us so let's go

[06:39] in let's make some

[06:41] adjustments there we

[06:43] go bring the similarity down one at a

[06:47] time bring the smoothness down a bit

[06:50] that's a lot better the remaining issues

[06:52] are still because I'm too close to the

[06:54] green screen and so there's green on me

[06:56] from there we're going to hold alt on

[06:57] our keyboard we've done this before

[06:59] we're going to dragon from the side to

[07:00] crop ourselves crop out the rest of my

[07:03] background here you don't need to have

[07:04] your entire background green screened

[07:07] just enough to isolate yourself and one

[07:10] little trick of the trade by the way um

[07:12] if you want to Green Screen yourself I

[07:14] don't suggest having your desk in the

[07:16] shot that can that can cause some

[07:18] problems but they were unavoidable for

[07:21] me this time I guess I could do

[07:25] this there we go and that could be my

[07:29] shot look at that if that's all you were

[07:31] here for you've done it congratulations

[07:34] but we want to go a little bit further

[07:35] this is the classic green screen

[07:37] gameplay scene but if we wanted to do

[07:39] something like this I think you'd

[07:40] actually be surprised this isn't that

[07:43] much harder it's a couple more steps let

[07:45] me go into how I built this so this is

[07:47] an overlay of about four different

[07:48] layers I'm going to turn them all off

[07:49] for you right

[07:52] now I made these all in just a couple

[07:54] minutes with some illustration software

[07:55] on my computer and I'm going to move

[07:57] myself out of the way here real quick so

[07:59] you can see as I build this the first

[08:01] layer is this red shape with a little

[08:02] bit of texture that I put on there

[08:04] that's not super hard to do the next

[08:06] layer is this border that I put over

[08:08] here the next layer is an interesting

[08:11] one it looks like it's just this corner

[08:13] but it's also this entire bottom here

[08:16] that way when I place myself in here I'm

[08:19] going to be behind this layer that way

[08:22] I'm behind the bottom half but I'm in

[08:24] front of the top half up here then I

[08:27] added a little animated graphic that I

[08:29] thought would be need to show my most

[08:31] recent event most recent donation or bit

[08:33] so if someone subscribes this would

[08:34] change to a little star thing I'd

[08:36] probably use something like atom to

[08:37] automate that this would be the person

[08:38] who donated it just a simple little

[08:40] overlay thing but the kicker that I

[08:42] think really sells this is adding a drop

[08:45] shadow behind me that I think is the

[08:48] main detail that makes this look really

[08:50] cool now a drop shadow is not something

[08:51] you can normally do inside of OBS so I

[08:54] had to get a little bit creative here

[08:56] now there are a couple ways to do this

[08:57] but the way I did it is I added a

[08:59] separate sear scene down here with just

[09:01] the camera in it so I could have a

[09:03] second instance of my camera that I

[09:05] could put different effects on it of

[09:08] course I green screened out the

[09:09] background like I did before and then I

[09:11] brought it into here and I dragged it if

[09:14] you can

[09:15] see I dragged it behind myself so I've

[09:19] got two of myself going right now and

[09:22] then in the filters in here I added

[09:26] color correction to make it black I just

[09:28] dragged down the game and the brightness

[09:30] and then I added some composite blur and

[09:33] that is a third party plugin I'll link

[09:35] to it down below if you want to do this

[09:36] effect yourself you will need to install

[09:38] composite blur but by adding that little

[09:40] bit of a blur it makes it look like a

[09:42] shadow and then I just like I did before

[09:44] I just crop it in to make sure you don't

[09:47] see anything else that's in there crop

[09:49] out anything else so it's just the

[09:51] shadow of me and the microphone and

[09:54] everything else that's on the scene and

[09:55] now I got this nice drop shadow behind

[09:56] me I got some depth to it so it really

[09:58] looks like I'm popping off this

[10:00] background I got this 3d effect

[10:02] happening right now it's really cool I'd

[10:04] encourage you guys if you want to do

[10:05] this effect to make kind of your own

[10:07] overlay like this but I know that can

[10:08] take some time creativity so in the

[10:10] meantime if you want to use this one I

[10:12] will put the files to what I did

[10:15] here it'll be a Google Drive Link or

[10:18] something in the description below you

[10:19] can download these for yourself and you

[10:20] can use them because the background

[10:22] color is its own color you should

[10:25] theoretically just be able to oh there

[10:28] we go look at that

[10:30] just use the Hue shift and color

[10:31] correction on it make it whatever color

[10:33] you want I didn't even realize that

[10:35] until I was doing this right now oh I

[10:36] like that teal that was an accident it's

[10:39] not even teal it's like aquamarine but

[10:41] the last thing I need to show you is how

[10:42] to get a scene like this for your

[10:43] gameplay while still having a scene like

[10:46] this for your chatting scene that looks

[10:47] like it's not green screen or at least

[10:49] it would if I did it properly the answer

[10:50] if you haven't figured it out is

[10:51] actually pretty simple all you have to

[10:53] do is take some footage or a picture of

[10:55] your background footage is going to look

[10:57] a little bit more realistic and

[11:00] throw it behind your green screen make

[11:01] sure the camera angle is the exact same

[11:03] as your normal camera angle and big one

[11:07] is make sure the focus is also the same

[11:10] when I took this I sat in front of it

[11:12] where I normally sit I properly focused

[11:14] the camera and then I stepped out of the

[11:16] frame so you get the exact background

[11:18] blur that you'd be looking for sometimes

[11:19] if you put it on autofocus it'll just

[11:21] focus on the background so then you're

[11:22] in Focus but also the background's in

[11:24] focus and that's not what we want here

[11:26] in fact a little secret if you want you

[11:28] can also add extra background blur if

[11:30] you don't have a super fancy lens throw

[11:32] a little bit more blur on

[11:36] there I you got a real fancy looking

[11:38] lens but be careful to make sure your

[11:40] desk is not in your main shot there and

[11:43] also that you don't go overboard because

[11:45] then it looks fake but this not only

[11:46] allows you to have both green screen and

[11:48] non-green Screen effects this means that

[11:50] all you have to do is have your room

[11:51] clean for when you take the shot and

[11:53] then you can have a dirty room the rest

[11:55] of the time and it doesn't matter this

[11:56] also means you can do some really cool

[11:58] stuff like add maybe yourself walking in

[12:00] the room and and uh waving to your

[12:03] audience or anything else you might want

[12:06] in the background it just opens the door

[12:07] for some fun flexibility and maybe some

[12:10] creativity to happen here by the way my

[12:12] microphone's in a weird place but that's

[12:14] cuz if I move

[12:15] it it misalign with where it was when I

[12:18] took the background shot it is now

[12:21] almost 3:00 a.m. so that is just the it

[12:24] is what it is I don't even feel bad but

[12:26] that's going to be it for this video

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