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Add a green screen or chroma key effect to your video

To glue the audience to your videos, you need to customize your video background as well. Now to customize your video background, a green screen is an excellent option.

Green screens/chroma key is all about differentiating the foreground and the background based on color.

To add a green screen or chroma key effect to your video:

  1. Login to Hippo Video using your existing credentials.

  2. Click on the Assets icon from the left navigation bar and open the video you wish to trim.

  3. Below the video preview, click on the Edit & Personalize button and select Pro-Edit from the pop-up.

  1. To add the green screen or chroma key effect, select the effect () icon and choose the option Add Chroma Key.

Note: Select image or video clip to add effects.
  1. Now, use the color picker tool to select the color that you want to remove from your video.

  2. You can create multiple color keys to remove multiple colors from your video.

  3. Adjust the tolerance value until you match the color key in your video.

  4. Once you’ve completely removed the key color, import an image or a video and add it to your video timeline.

  5. You have to make sure that you place the imported file below the actual video track.

  6. Click on Save at the top to save the editing changes.


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