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Simon Jones: green screen in HitFilm

Simon Jones presents our second great HitFilm tutorial. Learn how to create your own convincing green screen shot

Now’s your chance to see what it’s like to comp a green screen clip. HitFilm expert Simon Jones, takes you through layering, keying and masking your shot, as well as stabilising and grading your background to make it more convincing. Once you’ve completed this exercise, try to experiment, or even add your own back plate for fun.

If you do get stuck as we all do from time to time, try the tutorial a few times, but if it’s still not working for you, try sharing your problem in the comments section- it may well be that someone else had the same issue and knows how to solve it.

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