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Hey this is Robert from VirtualSetFX and I am going to show you how to use our new global
news studio background. Let me play it so you can see what we are going to do.
The animation is basically a virtual studio background that you use in any kind of green
screen or chroma key video production. You can use it for having a presenter and placing
a background or animation in the drop down animated monitor area.
I am using premiere pro CC, but you can use any video editor that can do green screen
or chroma key video production including final cut, premiere, vegas, sony movie studio, After
Effects. Any of those video editors and motion graphics programs can use these backgrounds.
First thing I am going to do it to delete out everything we have in here so far so you
can see me do everything from scratch. If you are in premiere, you would setup a
new project. This workflow will work for any other video editor. Things may be setup a
bit differently in your video editor, but the basic ideas of importing and chroma keying
are the same. So the first thing I am going to do is to setup a new folder for our backgrounds
which we will call virtual studio. Then, I will grab all of our backgrounds that you
get with the studio. Select them all, click and drag them into the virtual studio folder
right there. The second thing I am going to do is to bring
in our footage of our green screen talent lady. So I'll click and drag that footage
into the top level of the project. Then, I am also going to bring in a generic piece
of footage that we are going to use and show up in the drop down monitor in our scene.
There are a bunch of different setups with this studio. There is a center animated monitor,
that look there, loops and various other angles. I think i am going to use the left animated monitor setup.
So, I am going to click that file and drag and drop down to the timeline. You can also
click the create new timeline button if you want to do it that way. All of the animations
that have a drop down monitor are loopable so they loop at 3 seconds and 15 frames. So
if you go to 3 15 on your timeline and slice your clip, right there. Then this section
of the clip is a repeatable and loopable. So you can just copy that section of the clip
and past it on the timeline for as long as you need. Then, the seams where the clip comes
together are seamless. You can leave the monitor down to show with you talent on top of.
The next thing I am going to do is bring our talent down onto the timeline. And so we will
have her show up in the scene. So, if you are familiar with adding a key effect to your
footage. In Premiere, you have a couple of different keying options. You can go to the
effects window, click the video effects tab and find keying. Another quicker way to do
it is to use the little search bar right there, just type in key for key and that will bring
you blue screen key and all the other keying options you have in premiere. I like ultra
key and so if you click that effect and drag it onto your talent footage layer, then you
get your effects controls area and you will see that ultra key shows up. The quickest
way to get a key from your footage is to click the little eye dropper tool, click the green
of the background right there. And then it should take the green out of the scene. You
may have to make some adjustments to make it work for whatever shot you have. But it
generally does a pretty decent job. If you are trying to key quickly, this little setting
here where you can drop will do an aggressive key and that will key out a wider range of
the color that you have choosen with the color picker. This tends to do a pretty good job
of it. You can see now that we have our talent and
she is on top of our background and our animated monitor comes down there. So the next thing
we are going to do is to apply a key to the studio layer and what I am going to do is
to delete out the sliced off animation on the studio so I don't have to apply the chroma
key to all these clips and I can extend it out just bit.
So I am going to drag ultra key on the global news background then use the color picker
to choose the green in the drop down monitor and then you will see that it knocks right
out just like that. So what I am going to do is select both of
these clips right here and I am going to move them up one layer so we have video 1, 2 and
3. I am going to move the talent to layer 3 and the studio to layer 2 and then studio
1 will actually be our background animation, graphics or video depending on what you want
to throw in that drop down monitor there. So let me select these 2 clips and drag them
up. And then, I will bring in our piece of footage and then I am going to unlink the
audio and video (right click and unlink). That way I can delete the audio since we won't
be using it. So, if I go further in the clip you can see
that our footage shows up about that size (I think it's 720p footage). And so what we
are going to need to do is scale it and position it so it shows up in this monitor area right
there. So to do that in premiere, just select your clip, go to motion, scale. then you can
position is using the position sliders like so.
And so, that's not a bad position for the clip. You can see it shows once the monitor
comes down. What you can even do is to mimic the angle of the monitor area here if you
want to. You do that by applying a simple 3d effect to the clip. So if you come over
to your effects browser right there and type in 3D, there is a perspective effect called
basic 3d. Click that and drag it onto your b-roll footage and now you have some options
in your effects controls where you can swivel and tilt and that kind of thing. So we'll
swivel this clip just a little bit to slide it to the side and then we will reposition
and scale the clip up a little bit. And so now, we have the angle that matches
the way the monitor moves. So, if I click and play, you can see how the scene works.
Kind of like I mentioned earlier, you can slice your global news background at 3 seconds
and 15 frames and duplicate for as long as your presentation is which will keep the screen
down. Here is one tip that is a little easier to
do when you are working on a longer b-roll sequence that times into the presentation.
What happens if you bring another clip down onto the timeline when editing the backgrounds,
every time you bring another clip down, you have to apply a 3d transition, scale it, position
it and move it. So a good little trick to avoid that is to setup a new sequence that
is just for your b-roll and just for footage that shows up in the monitor right here. So,
if I go new item, new sequence. We'll call this one our b-roll sequence.
Click Ok. And so, if I bring down my footage. I can brind mulitiple pieces of footage into
this sequence. Often, I will isolate the audio from the presenter and bring it into the b-roll
sequence. Then, I can edit all of my b-roll, animtions, graphics or text inside this sequence
(and cut everything to the way it needs to show up in the screen). Then, once you have
it compeltely cut and timed to your presenter, then you can bring in the sequence down onto
the third timeline. And now you can just scale and position this one sequence with all of
your clips contained inside of it. You can scale it, move it, apply the 3d effect to
it. And now you can just do all those adjustments
at one time and now all of your pieces that make up your b-roll sequence and all the elements
that make up that sequence are going to be moved into place so that you aren't going
to have to do it 50 different times if you have different graphics and videos that you
want to show up in the monitor area. So thats kind of a cool way of doing those
things. Let me show you another backgrounds from this series. This particular one has
about 23 different backgrounds that you can choose from for your studio background. Here
are a few different backgrounds. Some are more centered, some have a background area
where you can change out the graphics that show up in different areas. It even has some
reflections and that kind of thing. Maybe I'll show you how to do that on this next
one. Let me first clear out everything on my timeline.
Then I am going to drag this down to the second layer. This animation is a perfect loop so
there's no drop down monitors or anything like that. So you can just copy and paste
it down your timeline for as long as you need and then it will repeat over and over again
down your timeline. Let me first apply a ultra key keying effect
to the studio layer. So go over to the effects window and type key and click the ultra key
plugin. Drag that onto our studio layer. Use the eyedropper to select and knock the green
out of the scene. And you see it knocks out in 4 places. So now, we will take a piece
of footage (actually, I think i am going to import another motion graphic to make it look
a little cooler) Now, I'll drag and drop this breaking news
motion graphic onto the timeline there. When I drag it onto the timeline you can see where
it shows through on the background. So now select the clip, go to effects controls, motion
scale it down. And position the clip a little bit. Now I can add the 3d effect to the layer.
Swivel the clip and scale up a hair. Now you can see we have our little motion
graphic in the background which looks pretty nice. But then we also have this little reflection
area to work with right here. So let me just move my stuff up a layer here so I will have
another layer at the bottom. Copy and paste the animation and now we have 2 instances
of this animaion. I am going to flip this clip vertically so that I can have a reflection
down at the bottom here. The easiest way to do this is to go to your effects window and
search for flip in the search bar. Then we will use the vertical flip plugin on the bottom
animation clip. So drag the vertical flip effect onto the bottom layer and that will
flip our piece of footage. And if I position it down a little ways, you can see that it's
showing up in the little reflection area (you can see where it is blue on the top and the
bottom where the clip has been vertically flipped on itself). So now, if I play that
through, you can see we get a nice little refleciton in the floor area.
You can also do a few more things, of that reflection is a little too bright for the
bottom, you can change the opacity on that layer in the effects controls. That way, it
maybe isn't quite so bright in the scene. You can see that we now just get a hint of
movement at the bottom. You basically would do the same thing for
this monitor area over here. Let me add 2 more tracks to my video timeline so I can
add a few more layers to the scene. This will give us room for a animation in the monitor
and a reflection on the bottom. In Premiere, you right click and click add tracks. We are
going to add 2 video tracks and no audio trakcs. So we get 5 total video tracks and click and
move our other track to the top so I can use the 2 new video tracks on the bottom.
Then, I am going to copy both of these animation video tracks (this one and the reflection)
and paste them onto the bottom 2 layers. The top one, we will position and move it behind
the second monitor area. I am going to scale it down a bit. And then, do the same thing
with the reflection. I'll scale it down and then move it where it needs to go.
And now you can see we have the background videos going, we replaced it with our own
animations. Then we have reflections showing up in the bottom of the scene.
And that's about it. If you ahve any questions or anything, feel free to get in touch with
us on our site. Otherwise, thanks for watching and hope to hear from you soon. Thanks, bye!