Create a Green Screen TV Studio - At Home!

Former BBC and ITV presenter and producer Peter Baker attempts to set up a workable Green Screen or Chromakey studio in a small spare room at home and determines the equipment he’ll need.

Here’s a full run down of the kit you’ll need; starting with the choice of the material for the actual Green Screen curtain and the best pop-up Green Screen option.

Lighting levels on the back screen need to be even for the best keying results, so Peter describes the type of lights and the placement both for very small spaces and also where you may have more space where the larger “softbox” lighting units can be used.

How to use a semi-pro video camera or even phone, rather than buying or hiring a broadcast style camera.

To get your video exactly word-perfect, unless you have a fantastic memory, you’ll need a teleprompter unit mounted on your tripod, where you can read the scrolling text looking directly at the camera. We’ll tell you the most affordable options.

Here’s the background of this Victorian invention and how it works in its 21st Century incarnation. Plus setting up the teleprompter software on your laptop and how to use Microsoft word as an affordable substitute!

Various audio options for recording and how to ensure your recording environment will give you the best results. Peter will explain about soundproofing, audio treatments and the various types of microphones you can buy to give professional results.

We cover every aspect you’ll need to think about, from choice of clothes, face make-up, sorting your hair, setting the camera colour balance, and all the other settings so you get it right first time!

In this video module, we’ll explain you in great detail how to use Adobe Premiere Pro software to get the very best out of your presentation, cutting out any background clutter, chromakeying professionally and cleanly from your Green Screen and editing the whole video together with virtual studios. There are plenty of screen shots and close ups so you can’t go wrong!

To make any “virtual studio” more realistic, it’s always good to add in real or virtual furniture and will move realistically when thee is any 3D movement, such as camera zoom-ins. Here are the secrets that you need to know.

Many commercial virtual studio sets include a green box in a “monitor”; but what’s the best way to key material onto these screens, while still keeping the presenter in their “virtual studio”?

Here is how to avoid getting into panic situations in edit after your shoot, when you realise that the presenter simply won’t key properly and leaves nasty jaggy edges or a green fringe. Top advice here with the TOP 10 RULES of Green Screen filming with advice of an alternate software plug-in.

Ignore audio at your peril! The sound has to be crystal clear as well as the pictures! Here’s how to edit audio using different types of cameras as how to erase “hiss” or background noise.

Ignore audio at your peril! The sound has to be crystal clear as well as the pictures! Here’s how to edit audio using different types of cameras as how to erase “hiss” or background noise.

If subscribing to Adobe Premiere Pro is a bit outside your budget, here’s how a FREE editing solution can come to the rescue for Green Screen editing!

In sales and promotional videos, putting captions on screen can really help to emphasise selling points and benefits. Here’s how.

We look at a few stock music libraries where you won’t get into copyright trouble and look at how to edit in music into your video for the best effect.

Understanding the video file types, and sizes needed for different uses such as YouTube and Twitter. You don’t want to export full broadcast quality files for social media which will get rejected!

Here are some of the choice of backgrounds you can use, and how to make them more realistic, for example by using real desks when recording or virtual furniture.

These are the essential tips you need to know for creating great green screen videos!

Yes, it IS possible to use 21st century tech gear and software to produce professional videos at home!