From the course: Top 10 Video Camera Tricks
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Postproduction for green screen video on a budget
From the course: Top 10 Video Camera Tricks
Postproduction for green screen video on a budget
(soft music) - [Instructor] Let's quickly put together our snowfall scene. I'm going to be using After Effects. Start by creating a new composition. Set it to match your footage settings or whatever you want to deliver to. I'm going to go with a regular 16 x 9 video here but you can make any size video in After Effects. Let's set this to about 20 seconds. Now, I'll drop in one of my backgrounds. These are just stills. I can drag them into the scene and press S for scale to adjust the size of the background and P for position if I want to adjust where it falls in the frame. For example, to see more or less of the bottom of the trees. Now I can grab the green screen. If I double click, it opens in a source window. This'll let me keep just the parts I want. I can mark an in point here and drag through. I like this part of her here as she's looking and feels the snow falling. Let's mark an endpoint. And now drop that…
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