Create Green Screen or Chroma Key Effect in DaVinci Resolve 16 – 2019

hi in this video I'm going to show you

some Hollywood magic the green-screen

magic when you learn this trick you can

give yourself any kind of background you

can place yourself anywhere look how I

can turn this clip of me with the green

screen background into the following you

can be in a nice office you can have

this nice blue background whatever it is

you can have textures like a brick or

wood and you can even be back on that

one sunny day on the boat hi welcome to

sharing your passion calm this is chill

and let's get it on okay here we are in

the Vinci resolve 16 in the edit mode

and to do a green screen video all you

need is a recording of yourself or

whatever object you want with a green

screen background and you need your

backgrounds whatever background you want

to use I'm going to use multiple

backgrounds here just to show you

different things and you can have

different kinds of backgrounds you can

have images different styles textures

and even video clips as a background

first step is to bring your green screen

recording down to not the first track

video 1 but the second track because

this is going to take precedence over

your background remember the higher you

are up on the video track is what's

going to show and if you have a

transparency then the next layer will

show this was a very inexpensive

purchase for me I bought this green

screen fabric from Amazon for less than

$20 I think it was only 12 to 14 dollars

or even nine dollars I think and I did

not buy the framing the framing might

cost about $30 to $40 so I saved myself

that and I just had a stick at home

mount it on the stick and screwed it

into the ceiling okay and the next step

we need to do is go into the color tab

the color control page

and okay so this is where we can make

changes to the colors so this area here

is called a node system and this is the

input this is the output everything you

do in between are the things you can do

to change the image so let's make sure

this dropper or this qualifier icon is

clicked and also this other icon here so

they're dropper here picker for the

selection range and now we can select a

green portion over here click that so

now let's click this highlight icon here

so this is the area that picker found so

it's controlled by this this and this we

need to make it wider to capture more of

the green so let's increase this soft

value let's drag it to the right see

it's picking up more green area and it's

also just a width

okay let's let's adjust saturation bring

this left side more to the left okay

that helped out to bring the right one

over see if it does anything

not much luminance let's drag this to

the left yeah that helps with some of

that and the right side of the luminance

this really is an inexact science you

just have to play around because however

you captured the green could be really

different I mean there's so many greens

so you need to just keep adjusting to

find the right range to make your green

screen really disappear okay now that we

seem to have gotten most of the green

area let us invert it so we will show

myself again and remove the green area

by inverting it by clicking this button

here this icon invert and there you go I

don't really see any in green stuff

around so that should work okay now

we're going to create a alpha layer or

in this case it's called

I'm right-clicking and it's called an

alpha output let's add this alpha output

so it adds this blue dot and all we need

to do is just connect this blue dot

which is the Alpha portion of this image

over here to activate it these are the

colors this is the alpha so now that

we've activated the Alpha output or the

Alpha layer in graphic designing it's

called an alpha layer here it's called

an alpha output okay let's see how this

looks in our edit area

all right it's blackened out the whole

green section wherever you go in my clip

it's all blacked out we've really done a

good job catching all the green parts

there might be some tiny little

greenness on my cheeks and ears but it's

hardly noticeable okay so now all we

need to do is just add some backgrounds

well normally it's just one background

but here I'm just going to show you

samples of different backgrounds let's

start with an office lounge area so I

dragged it into video one remember video

two takes precedence it'll show but any

transparencies here means the lower

layer the lower track will show and

that's what we see here this is the

video one track and I'm in the video to

track okay let's drag another background

let's bring this in that's bringing some

texture some bricks wood texture so

these are all images these four are

images and now let me bring down a video

clip let me go back to my cruise I will

mute the audio of that cruise clip okay

let's see how it looks here we go at the

office lounge and here's a sort of a

blue computer background here's the

bricks

here's wood texture and I'm back in my

cruise a oh by the way I just noticed

that some of the backgrounds were not

matching up with the screen so let's

look at this one the brick see that the

resolution of this brick background was

not the same as my screens so all I have

to do is make sure I select a that image

the brick image and zoom in to make it

fit stretch it out okay now it fits it

covers the whole screen and also with my

wood background I'll need to zoom in as

well select the image and zoom in and

it's fully covered now that's just one

thing to keep in mind making sure your

background wraps the entirety of your

screen okay I noticed something odd I

thought that if I could click on the

video clip and change the zoom or

position things would be okay but look

when i zoom out the whole thing zooms

out so there's some kind of problem

going on here or it's just I'm doing it

the wrong way but I figured it out let

me reset zoom to 1 and we go back to

color let's click this icon here it's

called a window it's a little circular

icon and click the rectangle here adjust

the rectangle frame around you

using the inner dots the outer dots do

some kind of gradient thing which you

don't need and okay so now I have myself

selected and that's it now when we go

back to edit I can now zoom out see that

and I can position myself on the right

side or wherever and on the bottom and

now you have that talking head on the

lower right corner in many videos okay

so let's go back to the beginning if I

run this I'm now down there I'm no

longer right in front of the center now

you can add your content here you know

your text or whatever graphics videos so

there you go now you have a green screen

effect you can do a talking head and you

could be wherever you want to be in the

world including your last cruise in the

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