Vegas budget green-screen tutorial

dibbkd wrote on 2/5/2006, 10:30 AM
I know a lot of you have been doing green-screen effects for years, and are pretty much pros at it. For me, for some reason, it was just something I never did, I think I had a mental hurdle to get over that it was something I could actually do.

From reading this forum and a few other tips I have managed to do green-screen on a budget.

Here's the link below from my personal website for a Vegas Studio green-screen tutorial.

Sony Vegas Studio Green Screen Tutorial

High-res green-screen format (50MB)

Maybe there are others like me who never got around to messing with it, but now that I can do green screen, it opens all kinds of possibilities.

Comments

tbush wrote on 2/5/2006, 11:10 AM
That was awesome...thanks for posting it.
SonicClang wrote on 2/5/2006, 11:27 AM
Oh man that was great stuff. Is that your daughter? She's SO cute!!!! :D I loved it. I'm actually looking to do a little green screen so this was just perfect for me.
dibbkd wrote on 2/5/2006, 11:54 AM
Glad you enjoyed it, I'm actually posting a high-res version of the tutorial now, I realize the text part of it is hard to read in the low-res format:

High-res green-screen format (50MB)

And yes, that is my daughter, which turned out to be the hardest part of making this video, getting a 2 1/2 year old to stand in the right spot for a few minutes.

:)
Stonefield wrote on 2/5/2006, 12:09 PM
Nice tutorial and thanks. I'm curious what you used to capture the vegas window to video ???

Beautiful little girl my friend. Just adorable. And believe me, getting 22 year old girls to stand still is difficult as well.

Please keep the videos coming !

Stan
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/5/2006, 12:23 PM
Great little tute - and great music too :)

Dave
dibbkd wrote on 2/5/2006, 12:23 PM
Stan, thanks, and coming from you, that means a lot, glad you liked it too. I have all your Christy and Sylvie (sp?) videos, have gotten some good ideas from them, and now that I am beginning to know green-screen, hope to be able to be as good as you one day.

Anyway, I used Wisdom-Soft's Screenhunter (Free) to save the Vegas screenshots to JPG, then just brought them to my timeline.

Wisdomsoft's Screenhunter

Thanks Dave, I create the music myself with Acid Pro... just kidding :)
AlanC wrote on 2/6/2006, 7:40 AM
dibbkd, excellent tutorial that even I can understand. Your daughter is cute and obviously quite happy in front of the camera.

Alan
dibbkd wrote on 2/6/2006, 12:36 PM
Marquat, yes, ScreenHunter is a very cool capture utility, and another advantage it has is that it can capture the mouse and pointers.

And yes, my daughter does love the video, I look forward to when she can really "act".
Former user wrote on 2/6/2006, 12:43 PM
Nice presentation, but, and please don't get upset, "amateur" is misspelled. :)

Dave T2
dat5150 wrote on 2/6/2006, 12:45 PM
Thanks for sharing the video...it was informative and entertaining...a rare combo.
dibbkd wrote on 2/6/2006, 5:53 PM
Nice presentation, but, and please don't get upset, "amateur" is misspelled. :)

Ughh... I wish Vegas had a spell checker!! :)

Well, it's corrected now, and I'm glad you folks enjoyed it.

I know it can be done better, and I hope to fix it next weekend where it has a little better lighting and doesn't show the black border around the subject.

And I think I'll leave that "wrinkle" in the video to show people what it looks like with a wrinkle.

Any other suggestions are appreciated!
PeterWright wrote on 2/6/2006, 6:28 PM
Nice tute.

As long as the wrinkle is not too near the subject, you can easily lose it with bezier mask or even cookie cutter if the shape suits.