3 Ways to Edit a Green Screen Video

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Last Updated: 2024. 03. 27

Green screen has now been widely used in video production to achieve Hollywood-worthy results. With a green screen, you can place an item on a completely different background, add virtual special effects, separate the foreground and background, and so much more. Now, let’s dive into the magic world of green screen video.

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What’s a Green Screen

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Make a Green Screen Video with CapCut

Make a Green Screen Video with Adobe Premiere Pro

FAQs About Green Screen Video

What’s a Green Screen?

Green screen is a post-production technique used to blend a video with a solid-colored background and a normal background video. The reason why this technique is called green screen is that the solid-color background is usually green. However, blue, red, or any color that has a high contrast to the key item will also do.

The process of creating a green screen video is called chroma key or color keying. A green screen video editor will take out the green color and replace it with another image or video.

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While referring to editing a green screen video, you mean either creating a video based on green screen technique, or editing a green screen video to achieve excellent results. No matter which circumstance you are under, FlexClip’s free chroma key feature is always at your disposal. Click on the Make a Green Screen Video button and follow us to get started.

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Step 1. Get Your Green Screen Video & Background Video Ready

Record a video clip with pure green color as a backdrop with a camera, a phone, or your computer. If you don’t feel like recording a green screen video or don’t have a background video at hand, dive into FlexClip’s stock library with tons of 4K clips, pick the one you feel like using.

Move to FlexClip’s Media section, upload your video clip from a local folder, mobile device, or cloud service.

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Add the background video to the timeline by clicking the Add as Scene button. After that, add the green screen clip as PIP by clicking the Add as scene button.

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Step 2. Use Chroma Key Tool

Right-click the green screen video clip. Find the Chroma key tool, which is at the top of the preview window. Use the color picker tool to select the background color, and then drag the slider to adjust intensity until everything looks perfect. All pixels in selected color will be removed. The background video can be seen now.

Chroma Key Remove Video Background

Step 3. Level Up Your Green Screen Clip

Seize every chance to level up your green screen video clip! FlexClip has rich video editing tools like video trimming, video masking, color correction, video filters and so much more. There is also a library of stickers, GIFs, widgets, shapes waiting to be applied to your video. Always remember to give them a try!

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Step 4. Export & Share

Preview your video and check every detail is perfect. When you are satisfied with the video, export it in up to 1080P to your computer, save to cloud services, share via a short link, post to social media.

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You can also use FlexClip’s chroma key to remove video backgrounds in other colors, for instance, red, blue, white.

Make a Green Screen Video with CapCut

CapCut is widely used as an AI TikTok video creator. Powerful features, integration of AI, popular templates are the top reasons why people love it. Now, CapCut works across mobile, computer, and browsers. However, it works best on mobile devices.

Step 1

Download CapCut from the Google Play or App Store. After that, follow the prompt to launch it. Create a new project by uploading the background photo/video.

Step 2

Move to the bottom, click Overlay > Add Overlay. Select your green screen clip to upload. Enlarge the green screen clip so that it fits the whole screen.

Add Green Screen Video as Overlay

Step 3

Click the green screen video on the timeline, and then move to Cutout. Click on Chroma Key. Use the color picker to choose the background color, then adjust the intensity until the background is completely gone.

Remove Green Screen Background with CapCut Chroma Key

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CapCut has tons of video templates with green screen. Upload your clip and let CapCut do the rest of the job.

Make a Green Screen Video with Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional-level video editing software with the chroma key tool. It costs $20.99 per month, but a great bargain for those who are looking for a video editor with more editing tools.

Step 1

Download and launch Adobe Premiere Pro on your computer. Add your background video to the timeline, and add the green screen video as a layer.

Step 2

Go over to the Effects panel, input ultra key to the search box. Drag it to the green screen video and extend it to the whole video.

Step 3

Go over to the Effect Controls. Under Ultra Key, you will see the key color section. Use the color picker to choose the background color. The green background is now removed.

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FAQs About Green Screen Video

Q1. How to add a background on a green screen?

To add a background on a green screen, you should first, import your background to FlexClip’s timeline, and then add the green screen as an overlay. Remember to enlarge it so that it fills the whole screen. Move to the Chroma Key, pick the background color and then adjust the intensity until the background is completely gone.

Q2. Can you use any color for a green screen?

Yes, you can use any color for a green screen. You can achieve basically the same results with other colors. However, green is the best color for chroma key for two reasons. First, green is rare to be found in clothing or nature, and this ensures nothing is removed by mistake. Secondly, our eyes are more sensitive to green. This makes the process of keying more successful.