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OBS Studio or Open Broadcaster Software is a powerful and very popular live streaming software and screen recording app. It runs on Mac Windows and Linux and it can stream to places like Facebook Live, YouTube Live and pretty much all of the major live streaming platforms. With all its great features, though, it can be a little overwhelming for new users.
But don't worry. This tutorial is designed to get you up and running fast and walk you through all the key settings in the steps that you need to know to host your next live stream or record your screen using OBSS, all in just a few minutes. Plus, I'll also share with you some low cost resources or tools that work great with OBS along the way, like how to get a cool animated title for when you're ready to take things even further.
Okay, so here we are in OBS now. Going to take you through this walkthrough using a mac, but the process is exactly the same if you're on PC as well. This is a brand new fresh install of jobs, so this is what you'll see if you've never opened the app before. This big black box here in the middle is your preview area.
This is where you can see what it is you're going to be broadcasting out down the bottom here. We've got our controls. This is where we can start streaming, start recording. We can switch between this preview mode and studio modes of our press on this now. You can see that we have our program monitor, which is what we're pushing out.
This is exactly the same as what you were saying before, but now we've actually got a preview as well. That's a little confusing because the other one is called preview mode. And this is the preview here. But essentially, we can queue things up on this side and then when we press this transition button, then it will actually send a live.
So very moving graphics and those sorts of things around. And you want to not be doing it while you live or the viewers aren't watching what you're doing while you live. Then you can use this mode studio mode to have that ability. For me personally, if I don't need that while I'm live, I'm going to go back to the regular mode, which is the one big preview window, but this is something you can switch between while you live the next one down here is the settings button.
This will bring up all of the settings for OBC and we will jump back into this one very shortly. Exit. It's pretty obvious it's going to exit the app. Down the bottom here is pretty cool that you can actually see your CPU usage, so you can see if your computer is under load and you're potentially dropping frames or having a bad live stream.
If your computer is under too much stress, you can see all of that at a glance down the bottom here. You can also easily see how long you've been live for or how long you're recording has been going for as well. The next panel along is your transition panel. This is where we can adjust the different types of transitions we have between the different scenes.
We'll get the scenes in a minute, but know that you can adjust your transitions here. Or if we have back on that studio mode, you're transitions are also in the middle here as well. Let's get back to preview mode. The next one across here is your audio mix up. This way you can easily see and adjust your volume levels for each of the different elements you're going to have in your live stream or each of the different sources you're going to have in your live stream.
And next to that, we've actually got our sources. This is where we can add in all of our webcams, images, videos, websites or anything we want to actually include and use in our live streams. And the next one across here is your scenes panel. Now, this is essentially we can have groups of assets or different configure options for different elements or different sections of your live streams.
So you might have a scene set up for just a full screen image of you on the screen. The next scene might be your computer screen that you're sharing, and you might have another scene for you with some text on screen. And as like almost every program out that you've also got your standard menus and options and stuff across the top here as well.
So that's the overall interface. Let's jump into getting OBS set up. So I come down the bottom here to settings. Now a lot of the settings in here are going to be personal preference and also going to come down to the type of live stream or the type of recording you're actually going to do. Things like how it looks, the theme, whether you want dark mode enabled or you want some other theme in here, then obviously that's personal preference.
Likewise, with some of these output confirmations here, things like being able to show a confirmation dialog box when you're starting a stream or showing one when you're stopping a stream. This is what I would normally have. I'm like, Are you sure you want to stop the stream a little pop up asks you if you want to confirm that I'll normally have this one on and the same for stopping recording as well, just in case it accidentally gets knocked and you don't want to stop streaming.
You don't want to start recording unless you've got a confirmation box here to maybe save you in that case. So for me personally, those two are the main ones that I'll add on this window. But I would suggest that you have a scroll through this section and just see if there's anything that stands out to you, maybe at a later stage, once you've gone through and set everything up, that you can then add this further level of refinement to customize things up for you.
I guess that's the general settings. The next one down is your stream settings. Now this is where we get to choose our streaming service, whether it's Twitch, whether it's YouTube, Facebook. So these are the primary ones here. If we actually hit on show all, it brings up a massive list of all the supported live streaming platforms. So when you go ahead and select a YouTube RTM P, then we need to paste our stream key into this box.
Our unique key for our specific live stream. So go over to our YouTube channel, grab the key will come down here to stream key here. We'll hit copy and then we'll go back over to Obi's and paste our stream key into that box there. Next, we only come across to output. Now this is where we get to specify our output settings for our live streams, but also for our recording as well.
So for configuring up our live stream, we need to specify a video bitrate the default here 2500 kilobits per second would be okay for a 720 stream, but with this number 2500 kilobits per second, the higher we go with it. If we went to 3000, 3500 or 5000, the higher we go with it, the higher the quality of the stream they're going to push through to YouTube or whichever platform I broadcasting to.
But it also means that our Internet speed, our upload speed needs to be capable of consistently pushing that amount of data through to our broadcasting platform. Now I'll link this page down in the resources below, but this is where YouTube suggests which bitrate you should be looking at for the different resolutions. So this page tells us if we want to broadcast live to YouTube at 720p the video bitrate range should be between 1000 504,000 kilobits per second.
If we're doing a 1080 piece stream, that needs to be 3000 to 6000 kilobits per second. Now we can go above, but you really don't want to be going below these numbers for a decent looking reliable stream. So in this case here, we're going to be doing a ten ADP live stream through to YouTube. So I to set this to 5000 kilobits per second because I know my Internet speed is good enough.
So that's the video quality. We can also make changes to the audio quality here as well. Now, I would recommend that you're not going less than 128. The default here was 160. That's going to give you pretty good results. 192 right up to 320 will give you higher quality audio. So if you're me broadcasting live with music and those sorts of things and you want to have the highest quality through, then you going to want to pick a higher quality bitrate for your audio as well.
Personally, I think anything from 160 to 256 is going to give you great results, but if you're only just speaking in your live stream, then you'll be able to get away with 160. So those are your livestreaming settings. If you do want to also be recording or you just want to use OBS for recording and that's where your settings down here, you can keep all of those in of the main ones being your recording format, you can see the default.
Here is MKV, you might want to switch it to an MP for and movie file and you also want to adjust your recording quality because in a lot of cases you want to actually record a higher quality video than the one that your streaming out. So higher than 5000 kilobits per second in this case. So we could choose a high quality, medium file size or one of the other options in here as well in this next area here, audio is where obviously if we get to dive into some audio settings now, there's really only a couple in here that you need to look at.
The rest are going to be fine by default. The first one is your channels. By default, you want to have this set to stereo unless you specifically need to be broadcasting in mono or surround sound. 2.15.1 surround sound. So for most people you don't want to leave this at stereo for most live streams on most recorded videos. But the one that you really want to check in here is your primary audio source, which is your mic auxiliary audio, not audio to three or four to the first one here.
And you want to change this from default to your actual microphone that you've got connected to your computer or to your camera, which is connected to your computer. So in this case, I'm going to set it to the cam link 4K because the microphone I'm using is going to be directly connected to my cam link, which is connected to my Panasonic phone.
So for audio, I want it coming through the cam link. Now, even if the default setting here of default is using your correct microphone because of your system settings, I was still strongly recommend that you're manually setting this to your actual microphone just so that you don't have any issues down the track. This next one down here video.
This is where we get to specify all of our video related settings for the quality for the frame rate of the live stream that we're going to be creating both here in jobs and also to whatever we're going to be pushing out to YouTube in this case or even to be recorded. The two of them don't actually need to be the same.
So you could actually be working from a higher resolution project in OBS, but broadcasting out to YouTube or recording a video file in a lower scaled resolution. And that's what we get to specify in here. So the default here is that our base canvas resolution now Obis resolution is at 1920 by 1080, which is ten ATP, But the default is saying that we're going to be broadcasting now output is 720p 1280 by 720.
So I'm going to hit this little dropdown arrow and I'm going to switch this to 1920 by 1080. Now you do have the ability in here to pick other resolutions. We can actually just type in that custom resolution as well. So you see that there's nothing that goes above 1920 by 1080, but if you want to broadcast in 4K, then you can actually type in the resolution numbers for 4K and you would be good to go.
So Video 1920 by 1080, I'm going to leave our frame rate here at 30 frames per second. This next one down hotkeys is where we can set up shortcut keys to be out of control obese so we can create our own keyboard shortcuts to do things like start or stop streaming, start or stop recording or a heap of the other functions that you've got inside of obs as well.
So this is something that's not necessary, but it can really streamline the way that you're able to control and configure everything up and run your live stream while you actually live and down here under advanced, you guessed it, there's a lot more advanced settings in here. I would say the one that I do check here and make sure is selected is to automatically reconnect.
So if for whatever reason your Internet drops out, that is actually going to automatically attempt to reconnect and to restart your stream with this setting enabled. So when you go ahead now and select. Okay. And now we're going to go ahead and set up our scenes for our live streams. So Video one default scene that's added down the bottom here because there always has to be at least one that's created.
And going to rename this one, right click on it and choose rename. Let's call this main camera. Now for this main camera, we now need to specify which sources we want to have used, which cameras we want to have used in this scene of main camera. So we're going to go ahead and press the plus button. We're going to choose a video capture device.
Now, video capture device is any camera, any webcam that you've got connected to your computer. So we're going to take a video capture device. We can give it a name here. Lester's Cam link, 4K and Go came. And now we're going to specify which camera we're going to link here to this video source. So you can see I've got the choice of my built in webcam.
The Logitech Brio webcam, a five that I currently don't have connected, but it is installed and the cam link 4K, which is the one that I want to use. So selecting it. There we are works. I'm on camera, but you can see just by selecting one of the other ones that they're going to show up there as well over here now.
So for this primary camera main camera, we want this one as the cam link 4K and you can see that the preset here, the default setting for it is 1280 by 720. Now, we've really told OBS that we want our canvas size to be larger than that at ten ADP. So in this case I'm going to make it bigger by selecting high because that's the actual setting that I've set in the cam link to be at ten ADP knowing that it's going to match here.
So for usually the pick hi or you pick the resolution that you want to have as your camera resolution. Once that's done, we're going to go okay. And you can see here that we have Cam Link here added on the main camera scene. And we also have the audio bars here working so that we can see that the audio piece is working as well.
Now, inside of each scene, you're not just limited to one camera, one video, one audio input. You can actually have multiples. We can come back in here and we can add in our other webcam. If we go to add a video capture device, let's name it webcam. Okay, Now select the Logitech Brio and again, make it the high setting and go, okay.
You can see that we actually now have two and we can actually turn them on and off all within the one scene. So for a really basic setup, you could get away with just one scene set up and you're just switching between the different camera angles and things just by turning the layers or the inputs on and off.
And you can actually change the hierarchy of them so you can pick them up, you can move them around. So you could create a basic stream this way. But where this does become more complicated is if you've got lots of different layers or lots of different inputs in there that you want to be switching between a couple of different screen shares, a couple of different cameras.
If you then trying to switch between things while you live is likely, you could be clicking the wrong ones and getting frustrated and overwhelmed with all the settings. That's where scenes become really powerful. So we can have one scene just for our main camera. Then we might have a scene for a screen share. We might have a scene that we cut to for playing a video animation or something like that.
So that's what we're going to go ahead and get set up now. So I'll remove this webcam here, hit the minus and let's go make sure you submerged. Yes. Let's add a new scene and let's call this webcam and can add in that video capture device, Logitech brio. Okay. And let's find our camera. Logitech brio, set that to high.
Let's go. Okay. So we now have two scenes set up our main camera, which is the main camera, and we have our webcam as well. Now, with all of these inputs, we can dive in and we can customize them up as well. These video sources, we can just select on the screen and pick them up and move them around.
We can resize them if we want to make them bigger or smaller. So you can actually dial these things in as well. And I'll show you more about that very soon. Let's skip this back to the correct size and place this back up here. Okay. So we have main camera. We now have webcam for the secondary camera. Let's create a new scene as well for screen share and so over here, we're going to hit the plus and we're going to bring in either a window capture if you just want to bring in a specific application window or if you want to bring in a whole computer screen, then you can choose display capture.
This is where if you've got a second screen connected to your computer, this is a great way to do it. So that's what I've got in this case, display capture and in this call, this second monitor was defaulted to the primary one. In the main one we can just change display to be the other input number one. We also get to specify if you want to have the mouse cursor shown on that screen as well.
So we go over that screen. Now my yellow see, my mouse cursor is moving around on there, so we get to turn that on and off with this little checkbox. I'm going to turn it off because in this case, if we were setting it up with PowerPoint slides or something, I'm not going to want the cursor on them to go, okay, and this has come in here.
So again, we want to shrink this down so that it fits into our canvas area. And we now have a scene here for my computer screen, a second computer screen, which has a PowerPoint or keynote presentation on it. I can click and go through the slides and all those sorts of things. So very, very easy to add these screen shares and things in here as well.
Now, we can even take this one step further if we go back to our screen share here, let's duplicate this so we get a copy of it and we can go screen share with video. So another scene that we might want to cut to would be our screen share here. Now, computer screen, but with me on screen as well so we can add in here our webcam again.
So if we choose video capture device and let's choose add an existing one because we've already added it once we're going to choose the cam link 4K. And so I'm now full screen over the top. We want to scale me down, scale this camera down. So could be that we have a little picture in picture effect on top of our screen share.
Yeah. So these are our scenes now if we go back to main camera, take is me on the main camera full screen, then if we want to cut to our secondary angle, maybe this is a top down angle or something. If we're going to be doing any writing on the desk, then we've got our screen share and we've got screen share with video as well that we can switch to all of these.
We can just switch between just by selecting them down the bottom here while you're actually live. Now, there's one last thing that I'm going to add in here to show you, and that is for our video intro. So if you're going to be using videos or even photos and things in your live streams or graphic overlays, then you can add them into their own scene as well.
So as create a new scene that's call it intro video, go. Okay, Now we're going to add in our source for that. And you can see we've got the option here for Image. We've also got media source as well. So if we get a media source, this will be our video intro and let's set a local file. Let's go through Browse and you'll find it.
So it's on my desktop video intro. Now we have some options in here for our video. When we select it, we can have it loop. So I just plays continuously. We can have it restart the playback when the source becomes active. So when we switch to this scene, then it's going to actually start from the start of the video.
So we'll want that one selected. We can have it set to show nothing when the playback ends, so it just goes to a blank screen. We can control the playback speed and some other advanced stuff in here as well, but those are the main ones. Let's go ahead and press. Okay. And you can see now that this scene is active.
It's playing our intro video. Now, this is something we really quickly knocked up just using place It it is ridiculously easy. There is a link to place it and a tutorial on how you can create your own amazing video animations and graphics and things to using your live streams and you can find the link down below this video as well.
And with each of these inputs, whether they're audio or whether they're video inputs that you've added onto your scene here, you can actually customize them up further. So I've shown you the properties area, which we can again, access to make those changes by either clicking properties to bring up this configuration menu or we can double click on it to bring up the same one.
Or if we come across two filters, this is where we can get further advanced controls and change up the look and feel of our shots and of our audio for each of those elements. So at the top you have got our audio filters. This has audio video filters, but it's really looking at the audio side of our audio inputs or our video inputs.
So if we hit the plus on this, we can add in audio adjustment tools, things like compress or expand again to adjust the volume and video delay. So if your audio is out of sync with the video, then you can come in here and you can adjust the delay of that as well. Likewise, down the bottom here, we've got some video filter effects in here as well.
So if we press the plus here, then this is where we can apply a lot to a look up table color grade. We can do Chroma key. So your green screen. So if you're sitting in front of a green screen, you want to remove that green or blue, then you can apply the chroma key effect. And you've also got color correction in here as well.
I'll just click on this one and please specify a name for the filter. Okay. So in here we can really dial in our shot and we can adjust the gamma to make it brighter or darker. We can adjust that contrast. So a lot of these things in here really give you some granular control over your shot. So we go back across the in and press the plus.
We've got cropping so we can crop down our shots, we can mask out areas of our shots as well with an image mask and you've got other filters and things in here as well. Now I'm going to close out of this and show you an example of where we would use one of these effects to back on our screen share with video scene.
If we select here the Cam link 4K, I would actually add a filter on this to slide down the bottom here and choose crop pad and I would crop the side of this. So it was actually smaller. So if I move this to the side here, we can crop off the right side. So this sort of our shot by using the arrows here, increase the numbers.
Now we actually just type it in this escapes know 200 just guessing maybe more 400 here you just go 600 and we'll also crop the left, maybe 400 just to see what looks good, maybe 350 and close. So you can see that we're able to reframe our shot as well and crop it using those filters. So that's a practical example.
And as a tool that I would use quite often inside of jobs. So now our shot looks like this. So we're able to remove all of that extra stuff. And I can also easily add text into your live streams as well. So let's go back to the main camera and let's set the plus down here under sources and let's go to text.
Now, let's just call this just title and go, okay. And then here we can type in our text. It's got Justin Brown. We can go and select our font. That's pretty good. Oswald And let's go bold and go, okay. If we scroll down, you've got some more settings in here around the colors and those sorts of things, so you can customize this up to match your brand.
You had an outline, you had a drop shadow. If you wanted to leave that really basic, then go, okay. And we've then got this text that we can pick up and we can move around to bring up while we're actually live as well while we're recording as well. And then that title is something that you can easily turn on and off inside of that same just by clicking on that little eyeball there to turn it on and off.
And it works exactly the same for any logos or anything or images that you want to bring in as well. If we want to bring in our primal video Accelerator logo, we can choose an image, let's call it PVA logo and go okay and browse to go and find it. And this one here we accelerate up and go, okay, and this is our accelerator logo that we can then position in this saying maybe scale it up a little bit if we want to customize it up further.
Again, we've got access to those filters. So it's like PVA logo, let's go filters and inside of here we could change it up or crop it down or whatever we need to do with it. So let's close out of this. So now you've got all of your settings dialed in. Your cameras are set up, your audio is set up, your scenes are set up, then you're ready to push that go live button.
So what I'd like to do here is normally if I'm going live to YouTube is I'll jump across to YouTube and I'll open up the live studio control area. So the access that you want to make sure that you're on your YouTube channel, sign into the right accounts, come back over to create and choose, Go live, and then you want to take stream over here on the left.
Or if you've already scheduled up your live stream, then you can go down here to manage and your live stream will be listed in there. So we've really gone ahead and we've configured up a live stream ready to go. We've already copied and pasted our stream key into obs, a quick little sanity check with the titles in. Now Privacy here is set to unlisted, which is what we'd like for this one.
Then what we need to do is go back to obese and hit that start streaming button. So if we press streaming, that's going to tell us that we are live down the bottom here. It's got a countdown timer saying how long we actually have been live for it. Also, tell us if we've got any dropped frames. So if our computer or a camera isn't keeping up and it also tells us, again, our CPU usage so we can see how much strain our computer is under and it also tells us our bandwidth usage as well.
So how much data we're pushing out based on what it is that we specified in our settings. So if we go across to the YouTube side now, let's switch back to that. We can see here that we are actually live on YouTube, so it's automatically started. Our live stream says that the stream is in excellent condition. It's also giving us our live chat here as well.
So that's why I like to have this open when I'm live on YouTube so I can still interact and talk to everyone while we're live in here as well. Now for those of you that are interested in that studio mode and what that looks like, if I enable that here now, I'll just maximize this screen again. Then we can see we've got a preview window here and we've got our actual live window on the other side here.
So if I want to say switch to this scene, it's cut it up, but it hasn't actually pushed it live until I come over here and press this transition button. The moment I press this, you'll see that the video will come across to this screen and play. So it's now playing. And likewise, if we didn't want to queue up the next shot, which could be the slides, then there's not going to go into this until I press the transition.
So if I press transition now, we're sending that scene live. So for those of you that want more control over it, it's not just one tap in your live with stuff. This is traditionally the set up you would have in professional live streaming software where you're able to set everything, customize things up, and then push it live instead of just switching between scenes while your life.
So that is a complete walkthrough on OBS, getting everything set up for your live streaming or even for recording videos directly to your computer as well. Now, earlier in the video I said I would also share with you. You can create amazing custom animations and graphics and things to use for your live streams or for your videos. Check out the video linked on screen now with a step by step tutorial on exactly how to do it.
And it's much easier than you're probably thinking. I'll see you in it.
One thing that can make or break a video production is good quality video with a compelling presenter. We found this video tutorial on how to smooth skin in post production using Final Cut Pro helpful and we hope you do too!
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Back with another final Good Friday, a series of 60 second videos of useful Final Cut Pro & Tricks. I'm going to teach you how to go from this to this with no plug ins, just simple tools already built into Final Cut Pro!
Go into your effects tab, click blur and drag blur onto your clip. Drag the amount to zero. For now, click the mask button and choose Add color mask. If you have never used this, I suggest checking out my video on skin tones, which I'll link in the description.
I show how to use it more in-depth, basically click view mask and we’ll drag the skin of a talent with this dropper for a selection.
Next, we'll adjust our selection by playing with the parameters down here. Generally, we just want our talent skin selected, try and make it white while keeping their eyes and eyebrows, lips, etc. black.
It may not always be perfect. In that case, the blur may extend to areas that may not look great once the selection is made. Click View Mask again and adjust the amount of the blur. Generally, only a couple of points will do.
You don't want to overdo it. If I helped you out, it would mean a lot if you let me know if I did in the comments and make sure to subscribe if you have not already. I will see you guys next week!
Have a good one!
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Green screening or chroma keying starts when you shoot. 99% of the success of your keying is filmed. That's how your green screen and lighting is set up. I have a very old video where I explain how you can set up a green screen in your garage.
Prepare to laugh at how I used to make videos, but the tutorial part is still relevant today. I'll leave a link below because in this video I want to show you how the Premiere site works. So I have a clip of myself wearing a blond wig as I heads bang around.
This is a nightmare and I don't mean myself, but the actual drinky blond hair is not easy. Definitely not with all that movement. So it's the perfect example for this tutorial. All right. First things first with the clip selected, head over to the effects controls and locate opacity from which you want to take the pen tool.
Draw a mask as tight as you can around yourself. We're essentially removing anything outside of the green screen. This type of masking is also called garbage matte as you want to remove the garbage. All right. So now let's look for the ultra key effect in the effects library and drag that over to the clip.
Jake, the color picker to select the green in your shot. And I usually select the parts closest to my hair as you want the best sample to come from there. Now, if you hold down the control key or the command scheme for the Mac users, you can see that the figure becomes slightly bigger.
This takes a wider sample, which is oftentimes better. All right. So now click with your mouse and good job. You've just pulled a green key. Now we're left with a lot of noise. And one way of reducing that is by working with a noise there before you're going to pull that key.
And fortunately, the good noise that's out there are peat. Although I can highly recommend the one from Red Giant, it will not cover it as I only want to work with built in plugins. So let's jump into the Matte Generation option.
With these five settings, we can further tweak the keying, but first we're going to change the output view to Alpha and this is going to show the keying mats, everything white is what we see and everything black is removed.
This makes it easier for us to see where we need to find you. The transparency is an overall clean control. I usually don't touch this as it affects the entire shots. The highlights controls, the opacity and the lighter areas, which is oftentimes the left overs and the green screen.
So if we decrease that, you'll notice that the background is getting better. The shadow control does the same, but for the darker areas, I'm wearing a dark sweater, so by decreasing that value I can remove the noise from there.
However, this will also introduce back noise in the green screen. That's because I might have a darker area here in the bottom, so pay very well attention to that. The tolerance is again something that you shouldn't change that much.
It defines the range of the key. You've already picked a bigger range when selecting the key itself. Finally, the pedestal is going to filter out the noise in the white areas. So this is going to be an important control.
In short, you're going to work with the highlight shadow and better still controls the most. As a general rule, you went to make as little adjustments as possible. You know, just a little reminder. But if you're older, you learn something new.
At this point, you can press that like button or not yet. But don't forget it. I'm still left with some noise in the white. And although I could remove them by making drastic changes, it will affect the hair too much.
So we're going to fix that differently. But that's for later. First, let's find a background, and the best place to do that is on story blocks today, sponsors. Now, it's a community driven library filled with over a million royalty free, high quality stock assets, such as animated backgrounds.
We can find different categories. Let's speak technology, and I really like this one as it encapsulates my blond hair. On the left, we have more options to further tweak our search and download in HD or 4K resolution, but apart from backgrounds, we can find so much more stock assets and various themes and drawings.
There are even collections so that I can download multiple clips from the same scenery. There are also tons of after effects and Premiere Pro templates, visual effects, overlays, even music and sound effects or illustrations, photos and images. Three blocks allows me to work fast or save time and money without sacrificing on quality.
They're enormous. Library always has something that goes in line with my creative vision and with the unlimited all access plan. You can download unlimited video assets, allowing you to try out different options to find the perfect fit. But there are also other plans one for everyone's needs.
So definitely check it out by heading over to three blogs dot com forward slash perimeter basics or simply click the first link in the description down below. All right we can set the output back to composite and view are working on my chosen backgrounds which simply sits in the track below.
Now your key should already look good at this point. We're still left with a little bit of green spill, definitely in the hair, but we'll deal with that later. First, let me go into the mats. Cleanup options. I do not recommend using these unless you really have to.
We can choke the keying, which is oftentimes needed to get rid of that thin edge around your subjects. For my that's not necessary, which means that my set up was good, soft and will soften the edges. This is oftentimes very tempting as it seems to make your looking better.
But it does. You want to use this if you're left with noise in the edges, softening those edges can hide that a little bit. Finally, contrast which separates the subject more from the. Background. And although that sounds good, things like hair should not be separated too much.
We need to retain some transparency in there. So this option is good for when you're shooting a subject that is bald or wearing a hat, for instance. And finally, the midpoint controls where that contrast needs to be focused on.
So these two options go hand in hand. But again, everything under the Met's clean up options are best to be avoided. A good green screen setup only needs two basic controls up here. All right, one last thing, and that is to remove any spill color.
And although there are some options for that down here and yield tricky effects, I'm not going to use those as I find them tedious to work with and I never get good results. Instead, we're going to use the metric and go over to the H as L secondary tap for the color key, click on green.
As for working with a green screen now I'm actually going to move my selection up a little bit to the yellow you. As I do that, you'll start to see the parts of my hair that are being now selected.
That's because the yellow for my blond hair is getting mixed with the green. You can also shift over to the other side. If you notice green spill in the blue areas. It's always going to be a color around the green you that the ultra key wasn't able to kick out.
Once you have your selection on the bottom, we can then color great that selection. Now either we simply decrease the saturation which is going to get rid of that spill or you put some magenta in there, the opposite of green.
So we're basically neutralizing that green spill. Which technique you use depends on your shots. Definitely try both and see what works best. Finally, you can increase or decrease the brightness of that spill. Usually that's going to depend on the backgrounds.
In this case, a little darker. Works best for me. Your green key should be perfect right now, although I'm still left with that noise on my chest, which is mostly green. It's because of that hair. This is a common problem.
Objects in the foreground that take reflections from the green screen. And the best way to remove that is by duplicating your clip, which you can do by holding down the old key as you drag it a track higher.
From this duplication, I'm going to remove the ultra key. You can leave the elementary effects and go into the opacity property to take the pen tool and you want to draw a mask on the part that is still noisy.
In this example, that's going to be my chest. This can be a very rough mask there. Depending on how much you move around, you might want to enable animation for the mask parts and adjust it over time so that you follow your movements and you can see how well that fixes the problem.
It removes some of those gaps. And before you think, Jordie, that is a lot of work for some simple drinking. Well, that is just simply how it's done. In fact, it even goes much further than that in Hollywood.
Don't think that professional teaching is a one click solution. It's usually a whole team that works for days on several seconds of greenscreen footage to get it perfect.
The virtual set used in this project is available here:
https://virtual-studio-set.com/products/modern-hexagon-multi-colorvirtual-set
Premiere Software:
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html
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The virtual set used in this project is available here:
https://virtual-studio-set.com/products/modern-hexagon-multi-colorvirtual-set
VMix Software:
https://www.vmix.com/
More info:
https://virtual-studio-set.com/
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If you prefer to use services that are specifically set up for churches, there are also live streaming platforms that cater specifically to churches, like DaCast, StreamingChurch, and ChurchStreaming.tv. Take some time to explore the different packages these services offer.
Yes, it is true that you could set up a camera in the pews and then simply deliver your sermons from your usual pulpit. And, if your church is already set up with good lighting and sound, this might be the easiest way to go, especially once the pandemic is over and you’re able to pack the pews again.
If your church is humbler, however, it’s worth looking into setting up your own makeshift studio with virtual sets and backgrounds. If that sounds overwhelming, don’t worry!
All you need is a green-screen, and you can find those relatively cheaply online. It’s also likely that some of your parishioners already have them and might be willing to lend one to you to use and play around with until you can afford your own.
Modern Church Virtual Set Pack [All Angles 1 -5]
In addition to virtual sets and green-screen backgrounds, you need to make sure your lighting and sound are set up well.
Natural lighting is best so if you can set up your studio to face a window you should do that. If that isn’t an option, you can fake that look relatively cheaply with some daylight bulbs and clamp lights.
For maximum effect, find a way to diffuse their light so that it casts an even glow.
The simplest way to make sure that your live streams sound good is to use a good microphone while you are speaking. Do not rely on the microphone in your camera to get the job done. Instead invest in a solid condenser microphone. These microphones will pick up your speaking voice but not whatever background noise may be going on around you—and any ambient noise they do pick up, they are built to filter out.
Note: It is also helpful to caption your live streams so that those who might be hard of hearing can easily follow along.
Live streaming can very quickly start to feel overwhelming once you get into the details of video production and distribution.
Just remember: you don’t have to be perfect right away. It’s okay to develop your skills over time!
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The screens have been installed in a few major cities across the world such as Los Angeles, USA, Beijing, China, Zurich, Switzerland, and Sydney, Australia.
The large screens are so clear that they look like giant T.V.’s.
With the development of Samsung’s Onyx Cinema LED screen, moviegoers have been introduced to a whole new cinema experience, offering a never-before-seen level of immersive viewing experience.
The level of colors from the deep blacks, brightness, and color accuracy, coupled with the contrast ratios and never-before-seen detail, puts these new LED screens at the absolute forefront of cinema screens, making them in the same league as Sony’s MicroLED B-Series displays.
As the Onyx screens are LED technology, cinemas will be able to deliver movies in 4K resolution along with HDR (high dynamic range) content. Moving away from the projector allows for ambient light that won’t affect and degrade the picture quality as is often the case with traditional movie screens.
One of the most notable improvements is with the brightness. The LED screens not only offer brightness levels 10 times greater than that of a projector but are able to produce sharper detail and a far greater viewing experience.
Due to the limitations a projector has, cinemas have had to choose between brightness and the quality of colors. The Samsung Onyx Cinema LED offers no such compromise and is able to deliver both color accuracy and peak brightness.
Samsung’s Onyx Cinema LED offers both traditional and 3D versions, with 3D screens offering an even higher level of realism and colors to further improve the viewing experience.
Another great feature, particularly for cinema operators, is that additional seating can be installed in each cinema as there is no need for a projector room at the rear of the cinema.
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With the success of these displays used in the filming of the popular series, The Mandalorian, the demand to utilize this technology is set to make this a very popular method for making films.
In collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony utilizes MicroLED technology over multiple screens to produce large, vibrant and sharp digital images. This technology allows for scenes to be shot where the actors are ‘placed’ into virtual cinematic worlds. This negates the need to use ‘green screens’, which has been the traditional way to shoot such scenes.
This same technology was also used in George Clooney’s Midnight Sky and allowed for the production crew to change to different environments without the need for location changes or the need to build expensive stage sets, allowing for huge budget savings that would normally need to be allocated from the film's budget.
Sony has released their B-series displays to be used in professional applications, which include the production of virtual sets.
Sony’s anti-reflective coating and high level of brightness are what sets their displays at the top of the current market. Operating at an average of 1,800 nits, Sony’s displays are in the upper tier of brightness even when compared to Samsung's Ultra bright QLED.
When compared with Apple’s Pro Display XDR (referring to the displays ‘wide dynamic range’), that peaks at 1,600 nits.
Because of this, Sony’s displays allow for filmmakers to create a precise visual experience and the actors to deliver their lines in a more authentic and engrossing manner.
The Mandalorian was able to create sets that felt so real, actors were able to deliver lines all the while having the sands of Tatooine swirl past them as opposed to working in front of large green screens where their imagination was their only resource to create a believable scene delivery.
It's this sense of realism for the actor that allows them to deliver their lines and the experience this technology offers, to the watching audience. The actor feels as if they are really in the locations these visual sets are based on and the audience feels this too, providing a more immersive cinematography experience.
The ability to create lighting conditions from multiple angles allows the removal of the imprecise lighting previously used in traditional filmmaking applications.
Traditionally, in post-production, teams would be required to allocate hours of man-hours to remove reflections that are caused when using green screens. Using Sony’s virtual screens, filmmakers are able to provide more realistic reflections.
To allow for a more authentic and immersive viewer experience, the use of virtual screens creates the reflections the viewer sees in the movies, by the light from the actor’s surroundings.
Sony stated the release of their new display will be sometime between June and August 2021. Pricing for these displays is yet to be released but allowing for the fact that they are marketed towards professional use, the pricing will be at movie budget levels initially.
As the technology evolves through R&D, the cost of the end product should reduce, allowing for a more affordable price point. You can expect to start seeing a much more immersive movie experience for years to come even if it may not be on your t.v. at home initially.
At Virtual Set Lab, we specialize in downloadable virtual sets that are used in green screen video productions. Our backgrounds are dynamic, pro-level quality, and extremely versatile. Join our thousands of satisfied customers and increase the production level on your next video project!
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in this tutorial we show a quick work flow on how to use OBS Open Broadcaster Software with a green screen and a virtual background.
About OBS: Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
https://obsproject.com
Virtual Background Used in Tutorial: https://virtual-studio-set.com/collections/hd-virtual-sets/products/modern-audio-studio-hd-4k-virtual-set
More Virtual Backgrounds: https://virtual-studio-set.com/
In this tutorial, Alex will show you how to add footage to your project, remove the green screen from your shot & replace it with a virtual set background in Davinci Resolve in the easiest way possible! Services Used in this Video:
Virtual Set Used:
https://virtual-studio-set.com/collections/hd-virtual-sets/products/virtual-news-set-12
(FREE) Motion Graphic:
https://virtual-studio-set.com/collections/free-virtualstudioset-animations/products/free-4k-hd-hud-computer-loop
(FREE) Editing Software:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
About DaVinci Resolve 16
Innovative tools for editing including the revolutionary new cut page, visual effects, motion graphics, color correction and audio post production, all in a single application!
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We hope you are having a great Summer and staying safe :)
We have just finished up a brand spankin new tutorial for Premiere Pro 2020 for your viewing pleasure!
This tutorial covers how to import, chroma keying techniques, placement, screen replacement and more. Enjoy!
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Checkout our latest Adobe After Effects Tutorial. This tutorial covers green screen removal, adding content to the animated monitor and more. Best of all, this is the latest 2020 version of Adobe After Effects. Check it out when you can!
]]>Because of the recent Corona Virus, more people than ever are meeting online and using video conferences. But what do you do if your office is messy or less than appealing as a backdrop?
If you're are like us, you replace your background with a virtual scene!
Any of our virtual sets will work with any online meeting software that can import mp4 files. We have also setup a brand new section of our site with single backgrounds that you can use to amuse your co-workers and clients.
https://virtual-studio-set.com/collections/zoom-online-meeting-virtual-backgrounds
And the best part? You don’t even need to setup a green screen behind you, it works even without one. But you can still get fancy with a green screen setup if you want to!
So follow along with the steps below to be the highlight of your next online meeting!
STEP 1:
Download Zoom and setup a free acount. It’s free for most meetings and is one of the best!
STEP 2:
Launch Zoom and click your user icon (if you haven’t setup a user icon, it should be your initials)
Next, click settings.
STEP 3:
In settings, find the virtual background button and click it. If you have a webcam setup, you should see yourself:
STEP 4:
Click the + icon above the built in sets and choose the image or video you would like to replace your backdrop.
STEP 5:
Have fun! You can load multiple backdrops in and change them whenever you feel like it. If you have a looping video, it can be used as your background as well.
More fun meeting backgrounds available here: https://virtual-studio-set.com/collections/zoom-online-meeting-virtual-backgrounds
Stay safe out there, we appreciate you…
The Virtual Set Lab Team
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Video Description:
Epic Games has partnered with Lux Machina, Magnopus, Profile Studios, Quixel, ARRI, and DP Matt Workman to put the latest virtual production toolset in Unreal Engine 4.23 through its paces. In this video, we take a more in-depth look at how all of the tools come together to present exciting new opportunities for innovative filmmaking.
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https://virtual-studio-set.com/pages/2019-recommended-video-production-gear-for-virtual-sets
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Looking for something to spice up your next video edit?
When we are out and about on the internet, we are always looking for good quality content that we could share which might help our customers with their video projects. Even though this video doesn't have to do with green screen or virtual sets, we thought the content was excellent and presented in a quick easy to understand way.
Check out these camera techniques to pre-produce scene transitions while shooting and make your next production pop!
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OVERVIEW:
In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to use our virtual desks in a video editor during post production/editing. I will be using Adobe Premiere Pro for this tutorial, but the techniques used could be applied to nearly any video editor on the market.
PRODUCTS USED:
VIRTUAL DESKS VOL 1:
https://www.virtualsetlab.com/collections/virtual-desks/products/virtual-desks-vol-1
Additional Desks Available:
https://www.virtualsetlab.com/collections/virtual-desks
STEP 1:
After you purchase any desk volume from our site, you will be prompted to download the files from our site (you will also receive a download link in your email to get to your files).
Download the files to your local computer.
If you are on a mac, your files should automatically unzip from the zip file they are contained within. If you are on a Windows PC, you will need to right click on the files and manually unzip the files to your computer:
After unzipping the files you should see the following folders:
STEP 2:
Open Adobe Premiere (or the video editor of your choice).
In the virtual desks folder you just uncompressed, open the folder for the desk you would like to use in the scene. For this example, I going to open Dig Table 4 folder.
Select all the PNG versions of the desk in this folder and import into Premiere Pro (or the video editor of your choice).
Create a new HD composition:
STEP 3:
After Creating your HD sequence, drag and drop the desk of your choice into the sequence
Scale down the size of the virtual desk in your scene as needed to fit the size of your shot.
Next, import the green screen footage you filmed of your presenter and drag and drop the shot into your scene on top of your desk.
****Helpful tip, notice in the footage below that we not only have a green screen behind the presenter, but also draped over a desk in front of the presenter. This allows us to more realistically marry the presenter with the virtual desk and we don’t have to attempt to crop out the legs of our presenter (or place him on the layer below/behind the desk). If you have an extra green screen and surface, try it on your next shoot!
Then, mask out areas of your scene not needed for the production:
Now, apply a green screen effect to remove the remaining green screen in the background. In Adobe Premiere Pro, I prefer Ultra Key.
Finally, scale and position your presenter on top of the desk:
And that’s it! You can fine tune your settings to really get a close match on your presenter and desk. The next couple of steps below are just for illustration purposes to show you what a final scene might look like:
Bonus Step 4: Add a virtual set
To finish the scene, add a virtual set on the layer below the presenter and desk layers:
Add a hue color effect to the desk element to adjust to match your background colors:
If your desk has place for TV/Motion Graphics, add a motion graphic and scale and position the motion graphic on the layer below the desk to fill in the TV area on the desk:
As you can see, there are a ton of creative possibilities in how to use our virtual desk graphics. If you have any questions, please get in touch at:
https://www.virtualsetlab.com/pages/contact-us
Thanks for your business and for your interest in our products!
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Using the camera tracker and text editor you can create beautiful smooth tracked text on top of your aerial footage like you would see in a major film production or on TV. This is the perfect idea to put that polishing touch on your next film or project. Enjoy!
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In this tutorial, we cover the basics in using our HD Virtual Set Pack Volume 1 in a video editor. Keep in mind, you can use ANY video editor for these backgrounds, but we use Premiere as an example.
This Tutorial covers:
We hope you find this tutorial helpful!
]]>Ever wonder how stock music for corporate videos gets made? Go behind the scenes in this documentary and see how the magic happens! These musician are true artists in every sense of the word!
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https://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-Elements-15-Premiere/dp/B01KICI37Q
While these aren't the pro versions of their popular Premiere and Photoshop software, the elements versions are very capable and are a good stepping stone to starting in with video and photo editing. Hope you have a great rest of your Friday!
]]>At VirtualSetLab, we are all about finding new ways to speed up our workflow when we are working on a new animation project. One of the ways we keep up with work flow techniques is by watching tutorial videos. Even after using After Effects for over 10 years, there are a few tips in the video below that we found helpful! We hope you enjoy it!
QUICK REFERENCE FOR TIPS:
1. Shift+Parenting Behavior at 0:33
2. Layer Selection at 1:35
3. Go to Visible Item in the Timeline (J, and K) at 2:24
4. Reveal Properties (U, and UU) at 3:09
5. Paste Layers at Current Time (CTRL+ALT+V) at 3:50
6. Close Other Timeline Panels at 4:52
7. Find Missing Footage, Effects, or Fonts at 5:19
8. Reveal in Explorer at 6:06
9. Copy with Property Links (CTRL+ALT+C) at 6:37
10. Center Anchor Point (CTRL+ALT+HOME) at 9:01
11. Center in View (CTRL+HOME) at 9:56
12. Fit to Comp (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+H, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+G, and CTRL+ALT+F) at 10:43
13. Flexible Masking Options at 11:37
14. Bezier Paths for Shape Layers at 13:30
15. Reveal in Timeline at 14:48
16. Default Render Setting (CTRL+Click on Render Preset) at 15:17
17. Set Work Area to Duration of Selected Layers (CTRL+ALT+B) at 16:17
18. Delete All Effects from Selected Layers (CTRL+SHIFT+E) at 16:47
19. Turn Off All Other Solo Switches (CTRL+Click on Solo) at 17:32
20. Reset Rotation and Scale at 17:54
21. RAM Preview with Alternate Settings (Shift+0) at 18:31
22. Live Text Templates for Premiere Pro at 19:36
Check out this great featurette on the VFX behind the Jungle Book to see some extreme green screen in action!
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