From the course: Camtasia: Advanced Elearning Editing
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Removing a green screen - Camtasia Tutorial
From the course: Camtasia: Advanced Elearning Editing
Removing a green screen
- [Instructor] Let's play with removing a green screen. We'll be focusing on the editing end of this. If you're looking to learn how to shoot video on a green screen, you'll want to check out some of the videos here in the online learning library. The tool I'm going to use here is in the Visual Effects panel. It's the Remove a Color effect. Okay, a bit of a disclaimer. This tool is entry-level, and fairly limited. So if you're looking to produce Star Wars-quality effects, you're probably going to be a bit disappointed. None the less, it's a lot of fun to play with, and can add some creative options to your project. Okay, so here I have an intro I shot in my home studio, AKA my garage. You can see my green screen is just a big monitor. Actually, monitor's work really great as green screens because they're evenly lit, which is key when it comes to removing the green. I've used a monitor as a green screen a couple of times when I needed to have a screen in the shot, but wasn't yet sure…
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