Green screen background

I understand how to create the green screen and how to mask it out...what I can not figure out how to do is add another background behind the person in the green screen. Is there a tutorial I can use? It seems so simple but what I found in the help section did not do a step by step how to....apparently, I need that! Please help someone...anyone???? Thanks!

Basically, you would place your "background" Clip on Video Track 1, and the green screen Clip on Video Track 2, then apply the Green Screen Effect to that Clip on Video Track 2, adjusting it for the green screen.
Here are some TUTORIALS, but I'm not sure which are specific to Premiere Elements. Still, the process is the same.
Steve Grisetti also covers Green Screen Keying in his PrE books, available at Muvipix.com. Not sure if he covers it in his Learning Series, or his Tips & Tricks section, also on Muvipix.
Good luck,
Hunt

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can you do green screen background overlay with imovie?

teacher24_70 wrote:
.. I see the list of different tutorials (video effects, picture-in-picture, etc.), but green screen doesn't seem to be one of them.
there's no tutorial on Apple's website, but Google shows a long list, #1 hit:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=2984

What is the correct method of removing a green screen background to insert a new digital background?

I am using Photoshop Elements 10 and can't seem to remove the green screen correctly. When I select the "magic wand" and click on the green screen background it selects it as it should. But when I hit the delete button on my keyboard it deletes the green background but a white background remains. So when I go to select my image to drag it to my digital background the white background goes with it.
In the tutorial video I watched it shows a grey and white checkered background after deleting the green screen which allows the user to select and move only the image to the new digital background. I am following the steps exactly but still can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas?

I don't know about 10 but in In PSE 8 there is a "Magic Extractor" ( ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+V) (on the mainu it's under Image ) which makes waaay too easy to seperate a selection from the background
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/8.0/Win/Using/WS083AC514-D907-483b-84A1-4EA3 989C4C65_WIN.html
As already mentioned, the trick with the "background layer" is to right click on it in Layers and use "Layer from background"This will turn it into a "regular layer".
Then add a another new layer and on this new layer paste your cut-out you created earlier using the magic extractor.
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Only raw video can be used with green screen background? What?

Latest of all software.
I have played with green screen a lot trying to make it work. The instructions say, and the only way to make it work, is to drag the background only to main time line in project pane, then drag a raw video clip from the events viewer on top of it, and choose green screen. This makes the video clip an add on to the main time line which is the back drop (like a title is an add on to a video clip).
As I have railed in other posts, this doesn't make much sense. But the real problem is you can only drag RAW video onto the back ground from events, and can not edit it any way afterwards (since it is treated as an add on, not the main time line). You can edit the back ground, since it is in the main time line.
The bottom line is: you cannot drag a RAW video onto the project pane, edit it and get it the way you want, and then add a back ground via the green screen. This make no sense.
Am I doing something wrong?
Any ideas?
bob

Well, here is a convoluted method that seems to work...
1) drag the raw video to the project pane, edit to your heart's content.
2) save it as a .mov file (i.e. you are all done with it no more changes...ever).
3) import that .mov file File, Import as a new event.
4) drag the background(s) on to project pane, make it long enough for video
5) drag RAV .mov file (which is really a finished edited file) on to background, choose green screen).
You now have an edited .mov with a green screen background.
Could green screen be implemented more poorly? It would be hard to see how.
I still feel like I am missing something. Any ideas?
bob

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Please see http://www.essential-photoshop-elements.com/change-background-color.html
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They have another which added banners to top and bottom which you could add text to. One I had was a scrolling RSS feed from these discussions, although it ws processor hungry.
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11:59 PM Saturday; October 27, 2007
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Remove Green Screen with Adobe Photoshop Elements

Hi,
I have setup a Green Screen in my home. I took some pictures of my wife with the Green Screen Background and want to remove the Green Screen and replace with a different background. I was able to do this via the Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 but need help with the Photoshop Elements.
Any help is appreciated.
Sridhar

FWIW, She is really easy to select on that green screen if you use a few tricks. The screen shots are in CS3 my preference but worked with Elements limitations to show you how easy she can be selected without any filters.
My end product doesn't look as good as Mark's though. That's a tough act to follow. Thought I'd post this anyway just in case you couldn't get that filter to work in Photoshop Elements 7,
First, make a copy of the image and desaturate it to make it black and white. I prefer using Hue/Saturation from the image menu (CTRL U) and moving desat slider down to -100. Next Invert it (CTRL I), then run levels from the image menu (CTRL L) to push the image towards pure white and black...well close. It should look something like this when these steps are done.
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Not perfect but this is what I came up with based on the above mask:

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