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Yep, that's a great trick! I figured out the same basic process about a year ago. I also found that picking the color to remove on the rendered version rather close to the subject helps with any final tolerance tweaking. Nice job!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for the feedback. You know, if you have Camtasia 2020 or 2021, you don't need to do the export, just group the clip with itself and re-apply the 'Remove color' effect to achieve the same result.
You're welcome! You know, if you are using Camtasia 2020 or 2021, instead of exporting, in order to be able to add another greenscreen removal, just group the clip with itself and you can apply it again, this way you save an export/quality loss.
@@Graphicious Thanks for the tip on 2021. I was experimenting and found if I tweaked the coloring of the original video by adding contrast and adjusting the saturation and brightness, I could make the remove color feature work better. That being said, I did a green screen project a number of years ago with Adobe Premier and had no issues like this. I think the remove color feature is not up to the overall quality of the program. I am disappointed and hope TechSmith would upgrade the feature.
Happy to help. By the way, in Camtasia 2021 and later, you don't need to export the clip in order to re-apply the removal. Just group it with itself and you're set!
Happy to help! If you have Camtasia 2020 or 2021, you can skip the export step and go right to grouping it with itself. Saves time and preserves quality.
Very clever workaround, but takes a bit too much time and there will be some compression artifacts from the exporting step. So to speed up the process, instead, remove one of the colors, then group the media (select the media and choose group from the media context menu or %g to group). On the group add Remove a color and pick the next color you want to remove. If there is still remaining color, repeat again The grouping allows you to remove as many colors as you need to get the result you want. There is some rendering overhead, so use judiciously but you can get a clean removal without needing to export and reimport the video.
may i politely inquire, may sir provide a video tutorial link how to work around applying the group feature to remove multiple background color on camtasia 2021, TIA
You apply the green screen effect to the clip once. Then, if you can’t remove it completely, group the clip with itself (Ctrl + G), then apply the green screen effect again, to the group and remove the remaining color.
Glad it was helpful! If you have Camtasia 2020, you can skip the EXPORT step and just group the clip with itself and add the effect again to the group.
I've discovered a way to do this easier in Camtasia 2020: Apply the first green screen removal on the clip, then GROUP the clip with itself, then apply the remove colour effect AGAIN, to the group, and choose a different colour (shade of green) to remove. This essentially achieves what I show in my video but without the need to export. Only works in 2020 though.
Glad it helps! If you are using Camtasia 2020 or 2021, you don't even need to do the export anymore - just group the video with itself and apply the effect again, as many times as you need!
Very creative and clever workaround sir! Using Camtasia, would you happen to know how to get rid of that green line or green hue around a person or figure in front of the green screen after removing the green color? The top of my hair especially have a green border around it and I've battling different ways to get rid of it but not much luck so far. Do you have good ideas for dealing with that? Thanks!
Hi Albert, I have the same problem most of the time. It depends on the lighting, really. If the green screen is too close behind the person, it will cast green light on the person's face, so that makes it harder to remove. What I usually do is, when I pick the colour to remove, I make sure to select with the colour picker as close to the person as possible, and then I tweak the tolerance and other settings until it disappears. If I can't get it to disappear 100%, I try to choose a background that is close to it so the green sort of fades away into it. When you make the person smaller, in the corner, it's not really visible. I hope this helps.
Glad it helped! You know, if you have Camtasia 2020, you can skip the export altogether and you can just GROUP the video clip (that already has a remove colour effect assigned), with itself (Ctrl + G) and then re-add the effect to remove the rest of the colour.
@@biologymaniax No, in 2019 you can only do it using the intermediary export, like in this video. Only in Camtasia 2020 you can group a clip with itself.
Glad you liked it! I appreciate your feedback. If you are using Camtasia 2021, you don't need to do that export step anymore, just group the clip with itself and add the effect again.
HI. Thank you for all of your videos. Great, useful information. I downloaded the trail version of Camtasia but don’t see the green screen option. Do you know if this is because it is a trail? I didn’t see a lot of the features I wanted to test out. Just wondering if you have tired this compared to screen flow for doing tutorials showing software etc? Or OBS… trying to narrow down what would be the least friction in recording and getting videos out. I also have Final Cut Pro but just now learning how to use it. Would appreciate your thoughts on the software. Have a great weekend! Thanks again!
Hi Jamie, thank you for watching my videos! I'm glad they are useful. Camtasia (even the trial version) should have full functionality. There's nothing limited or missing except that when you try to export videos, it adds a watermark. So the green screen removal should be there, in the Visual Effects section. It's called "Remove a colour". Maybe try launching it with Right-click and "Run as Administrator". It did that to me once and I think it didn't have enough permissions or something. If not, try to reinstall it maybe and make sure you have enough disk space. That's what I can think off the top of my head. I have never worked with Screenflow. I've recorded videos in the past with ShareX, which is free but doesn't have much editing capabilities. I've used OBS too, but I find it a little clunky to set up and again, no editing capabilities. If you are doing tutorials, I find that Camtasia is the quickest to open, hit record, edit, export. Since I am on Windows, I also haven't used Final Cut Pro yet. Just Premiere, Camtasia and soon, DaVinci Resolve, which I will cover a lot in my tutorials over the coming months. I hope this helps.
@@Graphicious Hi. Thank you for your prompt reply. I do have enough space and checked the visual effects tab and have "all" selected at the top but I only have color lut, corner rounding, media matte, motion blur, interactive hot spot and clip speed. I don't see the administrator setting that you mentioned? Appreciate your help!
That's weird. Are you on Mac or Windows? This seems to have been a problem before, I would recommend a reinstall. See this thread on the Techsmith support website: support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360071706231-Visual-Effects-Empty-
@@Graphicious Hey just wanted to let you know I did try a fresh install and that did not work either. The same five are showing. I will reach out to CamTasia but I really appreciate your help. Wonder if it has anything to do with the M1 Mac? Hope you have an amazing day!
good, but instead of exporting the mp4 you can do another thing. you can group the media with the remove color filter with control +G and then again apply the remove color filter on this,this really works, i tried just now.
You got it. That works in Camtasia 2020 and 2021. The idea in this video also works in Camtasia 2019. But yes, I have to re-do this video and show that other method, without requiring rendering it.
I'm guessing with 2021 you would achieve the same effect more like it would be done in pro video editing -- duplicate the camera video, delete one shade from one, the other shade from the other, then generate a matte from one to apply to the other as a media matte....
Good luck! If you are using Camtasia 2020, there's a simpler trick, without having to export the video. Just group the video with itself and apply the effect to the group, to achieve the same.
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Yep, that's a great trick! I figured out the same basic process about a year ago. I also found that picking the color to remove on the rendered version rather close to the subject helps with any final tolerance tweaking. Nice job!
Good to know! I thin it depends also on the first colour you choose to remove, and what's left.
You did a great job with this. Appreciate the useful tip!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for the feedback. You know, if you have Camtasia 2020 or 2021, you don't need to do the export, just group the clip with itself and re-apply the 'Remove color' effect to achieve the same result.
Much appreciated. Yes, Camtasia should upgrade the remove color feature! Thanks for the work around.
You're welcome! You know, if you are using Camtasia 2020 or 2021, instead of exporting, in order to be able to add another greenscreen removal, just group the clip with itself and you can apply it again, this way you save an export/quality loss.
@@Graphicious Thanks for the tip on 2021. I was experimenting and found if I tweaked the coloring of the original video by adding contrast and adjusting the saturation and brightness, I could make the remove color feature work better. That being said, I did a green screen project a number of years ago with Adobe Premier and had no issues like this. I think the remove color feature is not up to the overall quality of the program. I am disappointed and hope TechSmith would upgrade the feature.
Congratulations on the creative idea.
Thank you! 😊
Thanks a lot Cristi! I have been struggling with green screen removal while editing my videos using Camtasia. Your video is a godsend.
Glad I could help! If you are on Camtasia 2021, you can skip the export step and do it much faster.
@@Graphicious I have the older version. So I am planning to try your trick.
@@Graphicious Could you make a video on how to skip the export step in Camtasia 2021?
This is very clever, thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome! If you have Camtasia 2021, you can skip the export step, saves more time and keeps quality.
That's clever. Takes a bit more time but does the job. No need to re-record.
Takes way less than re-recording the whole video, I think!
Really helpful sir
Thanks a lot.
nice video, thanks
Thank you too
That was awesome.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent hack! I encounter this problem a lot so this is a great solution! Thank you.
Happy to help. By the way, in Camtasia 2021 and later, you don't need to export the clip in order to re-apply the removal. Just group it with itself and you're set!
Thanks! This helps a lot!
Glad it helped!
Thank you!
Awesome idea, solved a lot of problems, Thanks a lot
Glad it helped
thanks for the workaround! it has always been a pain in the neck to key unevenly lighted areas
Happy to help! If you have Camtasia 2020 or 2021, you can skip the export step and go right to grouping it with itself. Saves time and preserves quality.
nicely explained - good video
Glad you liked it!
excellent... thank you
You are welcome!
Thanks Cristi, very good idea , you solve my problem.
Happy to help! Do you have Camtasia 2020 or 2021? Because it's even easier, in 2020 and 2021 you don't need to do the export step.
@@Graphicious Thanks Cristi.
awesome nice tips
Thanks a lot
Good job!
Thanks
your videos are great! thank you for sharing your videos
My pleasure! Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Great idea!
Thanks! If you're using Camtasia 2021, it's even easier because you can skip the export/import step.
This is great! Thanks man!
Happy I could help! thanks.
Awesome tutorial . Learn more . Many thanks .
More to come! Thank you for watching!
Thank you very much u are so smart
So nice of you
Very clever workaround, but takes a bit too much time and there will be some compression artifacts from the exporting step. So to speed up the process, instead, remove one of the colors, then group the media (select the media and choose group from the media context menu or %g to group). On the group add Remove a color and pick the next color you want to remove. If there is still remaining color, repeat again The grouping allows you to remove as many colors as you need to get the result you want. There is some rendering overhead, so use judiciously but you can get a clean removal without needing to export and reimport the video.
Thanks! Yeah, that trick works but only in Camtasia 2020+. For previous versions, you still have to export.
thank you sir. that works great
may i politely inquire, may sir provide a video tutorial link how to work around applying the group feature to remove multiple background color on camtasia 2021, TIA
You apply the green screen effect to the clip once. Then, if you can’t remove it completely, group the clip with itself (Ctrl + G), then apply the green screen effect again, to the group and remove the remaining color.
@@Graphicious thank you sir
You are a genius
Thank you very much, appreciated!
Very useful technique! Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful! If you have Camtasia 2020, you can skip the EXPORT step and just group the clip with itself and add the effect again to the group.
I agree with you about being a great suggestion for TechSmith to consider when they roll out the next version of Camtasia.
I've discovered a way to do this easier in Camtasia 2020: Apply the first green screen removal on the clip, then GROUP the clip with itself, then apply the remove colour effect AGAIN, to the group, and choose a different colour (shade of green) to remove. This essentially achieves what I show in my video but without the need to export. Only works in 2020 though.
amazing trick , I really need it
Glad it helps! If you are using Camtasia 2020 or 2021, you don't even need to do the export anymore - just group the video with itself and apply the effect again, as many times as you need!
I’m using 2020
I will try it
THANKS BRO IT HELP ME
Happy to help
Thank you
You're welcome
Clever!!! I'll try this today!
Thank you, hope it works out!
Thanks a lot
Most welcome
Very creative and clever workaround sir! Using Camtasia, would you happen to know how to get rid of that green line or green hue around a person or figure in front of the green screen after removing the green color? The top of my hair especially have a green border around it and I've battling different ways to get rid of it but not much luck so far. Do you have good ideas for dealing with that? Thanks!
Hi Albert, I have the same problem most of the time. It depends on the lighting, really. If the green screen is too close behind the person, it will cast green light on the person's face, so that makes it harder to remove. What I usually do is, when I pick the colour to remove, I make sure to select with the colour picker as close to the person as possible, and then I tweak the tolerance and other settings until it disappears. If I can't get it to disappear 100%, I try to choose a background that is close to it so the green sort of fades away into it. When you make the person smaller, in the corner, it's not really visible. I hope this helps.
Thank you. It's a great idea 💡
Glad it helped! You know, if you have Camtasia 2020, you can skip the export altogether and you can just GROUP the video clip (that already has a remove colour effect assigned), with itself (Ctrl + G) and then re-add the effect to remove the rest of the colour.
@@Graphicious I have 2019. Works there also or not?
@@biologymaniax No, in 2019 you can only do it using the intermediary export, like in this video. Only in Camtasia 2020 you can group a clip with itself.
Thank YOU sososososo much 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
You are so welcome. Thank you for watching and subscribing!
Great tutorial
Glad you think so! Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Excellent get around trick!
Glad you liked it! I appreciate your feedback. If you are using Camtasia 2021, you don't need to do that export step anymore, just group the clip with itself and add the effect again.
@@Graphicious yes I am on Camtasia 2021
Thank you for this, sir!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching and subscribing.
HI. Thank you for all of your videos. Great, useful information. I downloaded the trail version of Camtasia but don’t see the green screen option. Do you know if this is because it is a trail? I didn’t see a lot of the features I wanted to test out. Just wondering if you have tired this compared to screen flow for doing tutorials showing software etc? Or OBS… trying to narrow down what would be the least friction in recording and getting videos out. I also have Final Cut Pro but just now learning how to use it. Would appreciate your thoughts on the software. Have a great weekend! Thanks again!
Hi Jamie, thank you for watching my videos! I'm glad they are useful. Camtasia (even the trial version) should have full functionality. There's nothing limited or missing except that when you try to export videos, it adds a watermark. So the green screen removal should be there, in the Visual Effects section. It's called "Remove a colour". Maybe try launching it with Right-click and "Run as Administrator". It did that to me once and I think it didn't have enough permissions or something. If not, try to reinstall it maybe and make sure you have enough disk space. That's what I can think off the top of my head. I have never worked with Screenflow. I've recorded videos in the past with ShareX, which is free but doesn't have much editing capabilities. I've used OBS too, but I find it a little clunky to set up and again, no editing capabilities. If you are doing tutorials, I find that Camtasia is the quickest to open, hit record, edit, export. Since I am on Windows, I also haven't used Final Cut Pro yet. Just Premiere, Camtasia and soon, DaVinci Resolve, which I will cover a lot in my tutorials over the coming months. I hope this helps.
@@Graphicious Hi. Thank you for your prompt reply. I do have enough space and checked the visual effects tab and have "all" selected at the top but I only have color lut, corner rounding, media matte, motion blur, interactive hot spot and clip speed. I don't see the administrator setting that you mentioned? Appreciate your help!
That's weird. Are you on Mac or Windows? This seems to have been a problem before, I would recommend a reinstall. See this thread on the Techsmith support website: support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360071706231-Visual-Effects-Empty-
@@Graphicious Hi. THANK YOU, I will try this next. I am on a mac M1 with 16 ram and 1 TB free on storage. Really appreciate you!
@@Graphicious Hey just wanted to let you know I did try a fresh install and that did not work either. The same five are showing. I will reach out to CamTasia but I really appreciate your help. Wonder if it has anything to do with the M1 Mac? Hope you have an amazing day!
good, but instead of exporting the mp4 you can do another thing. you can group the media with the remove color filter with control +G and then again apply the remove color filter on this,this really works, i tried just now.
That's true. But that was not an option in the 2020 version when this video was created.
How ingenious!
Thank you!
So what if you grouped the two clips, so you wouldn't need to render out, then just remove colour from the grouped clip?
You got it. That works in Camtasia 2020 and 2021. The idea in this video also works in Camtasia 2019. But yes, I have to re-do this video and show that other method, without requiring rendering it.
@@Graphicious Yes sounds like a good idea...cheers
I'm guessing with 2021 you would achieve the same effect more like it would be done in pro video editing -- duplicate the camera video, delete one shade from one, the other shade from the other, then generate a matte from one to apply to the other as a media matte....
Yes, in 2020 also, you can group the clip with itself and re-apply the effect but pick a different shade.
ooooo yeeeee. vunder fullllll
Thanks for watching!
BRAVO!
Multumesc!
ALWAYS, ALWAYS a huge hassle for me. Will try it later this week. ( fingers crossed LOL )
Good luck! If you are using Camtasia 2020, there's a simpler trick, without having to export the video. Just group the video with itself and apply the effect to the group, to achieve the same.
😍
Thanks!
This was the most confusing tutorial ever
Sorry it didn’t work out.
You did a great job with this. Appreciate the useful tip!
Glad it was helpful! If you're using Camtasia 2020 or 2021, it's easier, you can skip the export step.
Thank you!
You're welcome!