Introduction to Green Screens and Virtual Sets
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What you’ll learn
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Use Virtual Sets and Virtual Backgrounds for live streaming
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Use Virtual Sets and Virtual Backgrounds for webinars and video conferencing
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Understand how to use a green screen effectively
This course will help students set up and use green screens for live broadcast and streaming. The course will start with tips on setting up effective green screens for video backgrounds. We will discuss lighting, tuning your camera and selecting backgrounds. We will then segway into use cases for various industries including: Finance/Banking, Sales/Marketing, Education and Churches.
The course will then discuss the use of virtual sets. We will include a set of free virtual sets which can be used in live production software such as: vMix, Wirecast and NewTek TriCasters. The course will also include an interview with the CEO of Virtual Sets Works who will discuss the various use cases we are seeing in the live streaming and broadcast markets. We will discuss how you can customize virtual sets to create branded scenes for live streaming and best practices on using them to create professional broadcasts. Finally we will include a live virtual set demo from the 2016 NAB show in Las Vegas.
Who this course is for:
- If you are interested in live streaming
- If you are interested in virtual sets
- DO NOT take this course if you do not have a green screen
12 reviews for Introduction to Green Screens and Virtual Sets
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Original price was: $19.99.$15.99Current price is: $15.99.
Barb Tomlin –
Excellent subject matter coverage, both in content and presentation. Instructor’s substantial subject knowledge coupled with enthusiastic, engaging message delivery earned my 4.5 rating. I would have given the course a 5-star rating had the sound quality and noise level for each module been consistent.
Julia Finney –
Good information. I’d like to see more specific information and demonstration of how to use chroma key, camera, lighting, etc.
Arne Odland –
Thanks for the course!
Daniel Leuenberger –
I have done thousands of picture productions using complex Chromakey (Green or Blue Screen setups) over my career.
You have spoken about different types of backgrounds. But there is one that was not discussed: you can buy special Chromakey Paint. Walls and/or any other object that has to show transparent can be covered by this special paint. Lighting, as underlined in the course, is absolutely key for excellent results. However, what I wanted to learn was how to use Chromakey in a live video setup. Photography is another topic and you can fix lots of issues in video post production. But not with live broadcasting and this is the huge difference. In photography, I have used PhotoKey (from fxhome.com). They have also excellent software for video by the way but I never tried it in a live broadcasting setup. Also it would be very interesting, if additional 3D rendering would be involved like Maya or Cinema4 (as well as some new Adobe Creative Cloud 3D Apps) to add more depth to virtual sets (like props because sometimes they look pretty 2 dimensional in those virtual sets). Just thoughts what more could be done. Brain perception of reality depends from lighting and shadows. If shadows of virtual props could be moving with camera angle and focus, you could do absolute realistic and even more authentic virtual sets.
Glenn H. Stava –
Overall OK, but his presentation is a bit messy, and zooming in an out of his picture constantly breaks the illusion of his Virtual set as his image is often cropped by the edges.
The angle of the cameras doesn’t match his sets, and he never seem to be looking at the camera, Aren’t those rooky mistakes?
Gerald J Parrott –
So far the course has been what I expected and I have picked up a few tips that will be very useful.
John Stevens –
Excellent – lots of great tips!
prince Emma –
it coul’ve been simpler
Ong Boo Siong –
Thank you very much for this FREE course, really appreciate it and I’ll buy more from you.
Kevin Kurek –
It is great to see an instructor that is so excited about what he talks about. That being said he needs to try and contain it a bit and cut down on excess words. I would have liked a greater focus on really manipulating the virtual sets. Too much general info on green screen themselves, which was just a random collection of prior webisodes. Practical show examples of their use would also be good rather than just saying “you can zoom in and out etc”.
James Ryan –
Some great info about video mixing and green screen
Brent Meder –
Most of the videos are from Facebook and Youtube and was hoping for something more. That said, the presentation was entertaining and informative.