Best Green Screen Lighting || HOW TO
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2024
- Depending on your room size and budget, lighting your green screen can be very tricky. In this second video of my green screen tutorial series, I show you how to best light your background and your subject. No matter if you have a big studio available, or a tiny office.
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All the tools I use for green screen filming and editing on a single page:
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00:00 intro
00:20 the basics of green screen lighting
02:42 options for lighting the background separately
05:35 lighting your subject
06:15 using Nanlite PavoTubes for green screen
08:02 adding a rim light
11:13 full body green screen lighting
14:10 lighting green screen for photography
17:05 green screen lighting for very small rooms
18:22 comparing the results - Навчання та стиль
WAS THAT HELPFUL? Watch the next video for the best green screen camera settings: ua-cam.com/video/LRUJ6B5GVeA/v-deo.html
yes... well yes that was!!! thank you!
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are you kidding me with that question? 100% yess, very helpfull
@hendranurcahya3700 Great to hear that, thank you 🙏
Yes! you are great teacher
Best tutorial about greenscreen i've ever watched. Thanks.❤
Thank you 🙏🤗
This is the only one tutorial you need about green screen!
Aww, thank you! But you should watch my video about green screen camera settings and editing 😉.
I greatly appreciate the amount of work and effort you put into this amazing video! Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot for your feedback, Joe 🙏🤗
Wolf, you are the man! Super helpful and comprehensive tutorial. Thank you so much!
Thank you, Ben 🤗
Tried to make a green screen setup for 5 ours. It sucked. Now I found your video and it fits all my questions, is great structured, has an great visualisation concept, nice fonds, great pre-thinking about which information the viewer may realy need. Examples, price information, different room sizes. Love it. Perfect . A lot of work or fun or work and fun if you love it and it seems like that. 🙂 Thanks a lot!!!!!! greatings Ulf
Thank you so much, Ulf. Great to hear such feedback 🤗🤗
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@@wolfamri you are a great teacher! waiting for a new upload sir.
Thank you 🙏. I’m working on many videos at once 😉.
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This is a topic that is overlooked and is so helpful. Thank you for covering this
That’s so great to hear. Thank you for your feedback 🤗😉
This is so informative. Thank you!
Thank YOU 🙏
Thank you for this fantastic video! Very useful breakdown of lighting for different room sizes. Just what I needed.
Thank you for your feedback! Great to hear it was helpful!
This video should have got at least 20k likes and many more views. Well done .
Awww, thank you 🤗🙏🤗
Yeah if you make $ 20k a month 😂 nah just kidding, he deserves more than 20k, I learned a lot just wish I had the cash to get all that stuff. I’ll like and subscribe anyway.
@bluefirevesselspage9121 😂😂 yes, making 20k a month would make life easier 😂. But on the other hand I way too often start with DIY and workarounds but at the end I go and buy the real stuff. Doing the latter right away would have saved me a lot of money in my life 😂😂😂
Thank you! This video is very helpful, easy to understand and comprehensive and generally, it's simply nice to watch this video!
Thank you! That's great to hear. Just remember that just as important as green screen lighting is the right keying technique. In case you haven't already, have a look at the keying video. I learned a lot creating that, despite having quite a bit of experience in this regard already.
I so appreciate your excellent video on lighting a green screen in various room sizes. This is exactly what I was hoping to learn about today and I happily subscribed to your UA-cam channel. Thank you.
Thank you, Daniel. Much appreciated!
Fantastic video. Covering every scenario. Thank you !
Great to hear that, thank you 🙏
Thank you for sharing this!! I was planning to get a green screen but I never thought about the shadow that will occur!! Super informative!! ❤❤
Thank you! 🤗🤗. I have a video about how to edit green screen and also about the camera settings. They help you with sub-par results too 😉.
@@wolfamri thank you so much!! I shall check it out soon!!
You are amazing. Thank you for being a good teacher to so many people.
Awww, Thank you 🤗🙏🤗
👍🏻 Very informative and „enlightening“ basic course without any unnecessary stuff. The diverse examples are super helpful for understanding, especially for beginners (like me).
Thanks. I'll stay tuned. ☀️
Thank you 🤗🙏🤗
Your videos are amazing you cannot imagine how helpful was to find you and see all of this valuable information thank you so much and sincerely thanks for sharing your knowledge in this professional and entertaining way. Blessings from your new subscriber in Mexico 🇲🇽 City.
Thank you so much, and best regards to Mexico, my friend!
Great video! Very helpful and a lot of tests conducted that explains functionality and brightness and so much. Once again thanks for sharing this content. Subscribed!
Thank you 🙏🙏
The best video about lighting + green screen!
Thank you 🤗🤗
I am so thankful to come across your video. I hope my fans will like the new green screen.
Thank you. I’m sure they will! Good luck with your channel 🙏
Thank you so much! Really cool videos.
Great to hear that, thank you for your feedback 🙏🙏🙏
My friend, you are a very talented person in conveying the message to the viewer.
If you are a teacher, know that I am always eager to attend your lessons.
You don't know how excited I am to get to this particular clip.
I know you work so hard, and I hope you will continue to present your wonderful knowledge to the world.
I benefited greatly from the GreenScreen lessons, I just want you to know that teaching is your actual field.
Thank you so much, Ismaael. That means a lot 🙏🤗🙏.
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great video and very nice explanation!
Thank you 🙏🤗
You’re really informative man. My lights for my set up are awful. Even when I’m not so close to the screen, some green bleeds on me.
Thanks, this is what I’ve been looking too. I better save up for the lights xd
Glad it was helpful. Spill is really something that’s difficult to get rid of. Play a little with how bright you light the background to avoid it as much as you can.
Thanks
This is great!!
Super educative 🔥
Great to hear that, thank you 🙏
Very Helpful tips
Great to hear that, thank you for your feedback. If you liked this one, maybe check out the other videos in this series, there are some things that I found in regard to camera settings and software keying that I haven't seen elsewhere. They do make a big difference in the final result.
I was just about to scroll to see the setup for the smaller rooms, when I heard you say "stop, if you are planning to scroll to see the setups for the smaller rooms". That was crazy xD
😂 I hope the time spent before I talked about the smaller rooms was well spent.
Wow! Amazing and very helpful video
Thank you so much for your feedback! 🙏
Thanks Wolf this is so good Cheers!
Glad you like it! Thank you 🙏
thanks bro, you're a legend for making this video
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What a masterclass! Wow!
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Im trying to decide wheter to buy a green screen or use the background of my room to start a project (An IT academy) and this is very helpful because i know nothing about photostudios, lights, etc... Thank you so much!
@jhoanpalomino9446 So great to hear that, thank you 🙏🤗🙏. A greenscreen is definitely more difficult and expensive to light, than a regular room, but it gives you more options 😉
You are amazing... Best Greens Screen Video ever.
Thank you soooo much 🤗😉
Hey, love the green screen series. Just wondering about the diagrams of the lighting setups you went through. I can't find them on your site. Thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you so much. Oh, sorry. I need to check. I‘m on the road right now. I will check when I‘m back. 😬. Thank you for the reminder 😉
thank you that was helpful
Glad it helped! Thank you for your feedback 🙏🙏
Fantastic video thank you
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Super concise and helpful -- donka :)
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Excellent video, you are my new favourite teacher.
Thank you, Spencer! That puts quite some pressure on me 😁.
Perfect info, thanks for the tips. For me the "nanlite pavotube ii 30" are perfect because I'm trying to record in a small room, but they're really expensive (at least for me) it cost 710€.
Thank you! Yes, they are not really cheap, but I‘m afraid all the tube lights that have a small footprint are similar in price. I assume that will change in a few years, but atm that’s our only choice. Nanlite is still one of the more affordable brands though 😬.
You're very good at what you do. It's rare.. but man.. I'm subbed
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Great Job!
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I would like to invite you to my home for dinner. 🥘🍲What a great video !! How much effort and time would have gone behind this !! Thanks a ton for creating this beautiful content and distributing it for free !! 🙏
Awwww, but thank you for such a nice feedback 🙏🤗
Thank you! oh and one more thing.. YOUR HAIR ROCKS ! ! !
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amazing video.
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You are amazing sir.... Exactly what i hav been looking for.... Almost ripped my hair off.... I was able get a pretty clean key with my hair but had that line around the subject and always had choke the matte loosing hair detail.... I work in davinci resolve free version...
As soon as i increased the intensity of green screen lights i am getting better results....
Also i just use a hair light for now.... Shall i also use those rim lights on both sides... Would that help as well....
Also one more workaround to remove those lines is to use a background that is darker but mayb not black.... N less of brighter shades...
Thnx from India
Thank you. Does the hair light give you a rim on both sides? If yes, then that should work well. If it's only one side, then you might think about placing it differently.
The goal is to make it work on all backgrounds, in case you change the background you are on the safe side ;).
Thanks again!
Been following your videos and they are super helpful! We have a similar size setup and are currently trying to light. A local store in LA told us to use 3x Nanluxe TK 140B from above to light our green screen. But this way you showed is significantly cheaper. Are there any benefits to doing one over the other? The results you’ve shown seem great. Thank you!
Great to hear that they are helpful. 3 lights seems a little weird. Did they give you some kind of plan? What exactly are you planning to shoot?
Hi, thank you for the helpful video. You talked about softboxes, which one would you recommend for the FS-150, used as background light?
I would get a strip softbox (so longer and narrow). But be aware that softboxes eat quite some light. I assume though that you don't have much space, so it will stand close to the background anyway, then it's not as much of an issue.
@@wolfamri Thank you for the fast reply. Yes, not a lot of space. Will try to place the lights close to the screen (around 2-3 meters) and try the SB-RT90x60 softboxes (also from Nanlite).
@@Obsidian88 they should work well. If they are not bright enough, you could use a diffuser gel instead of the diffuser cloth, or you dial the main light down a little and raise ISO.
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Thank you for this masterpiece sir!
Thank you kindly! Glad you enjoyed it 😉.
These videos are great, after watching the Camera settings video I think my problem may be lighting power.
I have no shortage of lights but they are mostly cheap. I use a Godox UL150 with softbox as key light. Then I have around 6 Neewer LED panels of varying wattage 2 x 40W and 4 x 52W which I hope to use top light the green screen. I also have 2 Profoto b10+ but the fans are quite noisy for video. My screen space is about 10ft wide and I can position camera about 9ft away leaving not much room to distance me from the green screen. My camera is a Sony A7iii. I am shooting talking head. I ideally want 2 angles but I like your videos which seem to be shot from 1 angle with changing frame every 5 to 10 secs. My ceiling height is 240. I have set up a 4 post rig (with sound blankets at the side) I can run beams across the top to mount lights. I shave my head. Maybe I should use the Profoto's and deal with the noise. I have a Zoom F2 for lav mic, I haven't tested with profoto lights, maybe easy to remove background sound in production than with my shotgun mic.
Do you think I can achieve a good lighting setup?
Yes, I think you can. Maybe you need to raise ISO, But that shouldn't be much of an issue to go to ISO800-1600. Try to use two lights as rim lights. With so many lights, maybe use 4 for the background, and two for rim (without letting the rim light hit the background.
Nice Thanks again
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Great video! That's what I needed :) If I may ask - how long is your room? When filming a full body shot, what focal length would you use to get the most natural body proportions and how far would the camera have to be placed from the subject?
Thank you! My room is theoretically 8m, but I usually don’t use it all because I don’t do full body shots. But in general: the more, the better and best would be the focal length of the background that you want to put in. If it is a graphic background, then I’d try to get around 70mm if anyhow possible 😉
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Great video
Glad you enjoyed it! thank you!
Thank you for the value that included spectacular level of editing. The wig was humorous twist. Well balance of visual and audio to walk with your explanation. Kudos to you and your channel. First time watcher and new subscriber.
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Great job, many thanks! Bardzo przydatny materiał
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I have no idea what my autocorrect did to the end of my sentence... but your video has made my content way better! Now I just need to upload more. @@wolfamri
That’s so great to hear! I hear you about uploading 😂😂
Hello! Thank you very much for your help! May I ask which kind of fabric you are using for your ceiling?
Thank you! I use organic white molton 300g/sqm.
@wolfamri Thank you so much sir, for the video & your respond, they helped me tremendously. I was able to set up a small studio room for a non profit place using your knowledge. I would love to show you the setup but don't know how. If you're interested please let me know 😊
I’m definitely interested. Do you have instagram or facebook?
at 10:56 you mentioned that you'll give us a link to the sketch of all of your set-ups, however I don't see it. I'm interested to see the sketch for a medium room 4x3m - especially at what power you are running all the lights. Thanks :)
Thanks for the feedback, Adrianna. I would have sworn I have added the links. I need to check. Please remind me in case I forget!
Hey Wolf,
great video and really helpful information. Where can i download the Material you are referencing at 11:00?
best Simon
When shooting full body shots, try using a snoot on your hair lights to avoid the foreground shadows.
Thank you, Dennis. That's a good idea 👌. But that way you must not move around, at least if you don't have a lot of room between the subject and the greenscreen. Plus: you also lose the rim light on the arms, which helps quite a bit. But of course depending on the background you add, a rim light might not be suitable anyway. Any ideas in this regard?
I use your setup very well when I shoot a solo guitarist, but when I shoot a band with Jazz Drums, Bass, Guitar, Piano, it seems too difficult with the shadows. I hope to receive advice from you in this case or do you have any practice videos in this case that can help me recommend? Thank you very much in advance
The more people you have, the more lights you need. Every light will soften the shadow of another light.
Another option would be to use stronger lights in bigger softboxes, that would soften the shadow. But these are pretty expensive 😬.
Have you seen my green screen editing video? The more masks you create, (e.g. one for the shadows) the better your results will be.
@@wolfamri Thank you so much ❣
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What would you suggest as a max difference in procent for the smoothness of the green screen lighting? For example is the +-30 % difference in brightness ok?
Do you mean 30% from brightest to darkest area? I’m afraid that’s a bit difficult to answer because 30% is about 1/2 to 2/3 stops. That’s quite a bit. But in the end it depends on what you shoot. Can you elaborate on that?
@@wolfamri Yes eg. 30 % from brightest to darkest area. 7 x 2,8 meter green screen needs a lighting from above. Presenter will stand about 1,6 meters from the screen. The smoothness of the lighting need to specified for the installer.
I'm afraid that is not something I'm familiar with. To be honest it sounds a bit weird to me that the installer asked you that. The less variation, the better - so the more he can even it out, the better it will be. With a green screen of that size, it depends a lot where he can place the lamps. Due to the light falloff the closer the lamps are to the green screen background, the bigger the variation will be (top bright, bottom dark). On the other hand if he places the light further away (more than those 1,6m), the light may spill on your presenter.
As an example: if he places the light in a height of 2,8m and 1,6m from the wall, the light will be 1,6m away from the top of the green screen and according to Pythagoras, the bottom will be 3,22m away. That's twice as far. According to the inverse square law that describes the light falloff, the bottom will only get 1/4 of the light that the top will get. That is 2 stops and 200% difference. The installer could potentially bring some lights from the side, but in the center, the difference would still be waaaaay more than 30%.
Long story short: you can only make the green screen as even as possible.
I hope that helps.
Where did you get the softboxes from? I'm gonna get the recommended Nanlite FS-150 but I don't know where the softboxes you used are. Thanks!
These are chimera softboxes that are pretty old. Don't worry too much about the softbox if you only need it for lighting the background. Just get a rectangular or strip softbox with a bowens mount. For example this one: amzn.to/49LMwzG The chimera have a thinner diffusion fabric, which will let a bit more light through, but that doesn't matter much when lighting a green screen background. You can adapt the other lights accordingly.
@@wolfamri Thanks!!
Great video, really helped! But shouldn't the wig test have an image over the green screen?
Thank you, much appreciated! 🤗 But I‘m not sure I understand your question 🤔
@@wolfamri disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about....but I just assumed that if you do the hair test with just the green screen it will always look good. But when you put an image or video behind you, that's when the hair test would show potential problems.
@fuybjeans No worries 😉. This series continued with a green screen camera settings and editing video, where I show different backgrounds 😉
What did you use to clamp and mount your PT4C amaran tube lights to the light stands? I'm having a hard time finding the right clamps to mount my amaran light since it is a 3/8 thread. I checked your links and I couldn't find any clamps you used
Mine are nanlite pavo tubes, and they have their own clamps. You can use adapters if the only issue is the thread.
Very good video! Could not watch it all though as it was quite long.
Thank you. Yes, unfortunately it is vey difficult to explain everything that are important to understand lighting in just a few minutes 😉.
Did you voice Gru in Despicable me? One of the best tutorials though 👍
😂 that's my first job. Thank you 😉
I am interested in the rail system you are using. Do you have a video on this or can you tell me what brand it is?
Hi! It's from a brand called "Hensel" It's heavy duty though (the Doppel-E system from that brand). I just had it from my old studio, otherwise I would have bought a lighter one. I hope that helps ;)
Are these pavotube 30x ?
Hi! Yes, the longer ones were the 30's.
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where to watch lighting room plans?
What's your opinion on Elgato green screens?
I’m afraid I have never tried them 😬. I have a separate video about green screen backgrounds. These are the ones I tried and which one I’d recommend really depends on the use case.
@@wolfamri I actually watched another video after commenting. Really loved the full-body green screen rolls, which you can screw to the wall 😊
Nice boss, how can reach you so that I will learn from you.pls help out
Hi! Best is always to ask here. That will help others too, and me also with the youtube algorithm ;).
I get an error when clicking on your webpage link…
Thank you! It should be solved now 😉
Let'em cook
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at 12:58 standing suddenly on a beach , but without shadows , that needs another tutorial !
There is another one. As I said this is video 2/4 😉
how big is a big room?
That’s obviously relative, that’s why I listed the dimensions of the room sizes I worked with in the video 😉
Just need 50 pots of chedder 420 now
Imagine you had twice as much 😉
I barely have two light lol
That's a bit tricky then. But check my UA-cam green screen editing tutorial, you can get away with pretty bad green screen if you use masks ;)
I managed to setup my green screen with best lighting under 50$ by simply using cheap DIY thing.
Congrats! 👏 What lights did you use and can you show us a sample of the results you get?
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this is good, but its extremely expensive setup for us people in third world countries...175$ is a lot !
Thank you! I totally understand that. It is difficult though to make a video that fits all budgets and locations. Sometimes products aren’t available either. Same with software. I really wished I could help everyone 😬
What Am I doing here
No idea 🤣