The higher the number, the more variance of the chroma key color the program allows. The Tolerance option specifies the threshold of the color value. Supported video formats: AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, FLV, MOV, MPEG You should select an image or video that will represent the new background of your camera picture.įollowing image formats are supported: JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF You can either pick it from the preview window with the Pick button, or let the program Detect it automatically. Now you should specify the color you want to be replaced with the background image. Switch to the Effects tab and activate the Green Screening section: Now, as you chose the camera, you should apply a green screen effect to the image it produces. They include Canon DSLR cameras, a real-time video of your desktop, predefined video files or even a static image. Note that you can use other devices as a source of the web camera footage as well.

You can configure your device by clicking the Properties button. Put the checkmark near the Web Camera section to open it, and find your device in the dropdown list. Run SparkoCam and switch to the Device tab. Here is a step by step instruction on how to use green screen with a webcam. Now, all you need is a green background that you can buy in many photo supply stores around the web, and SparkoCam. In SparkoCam software, the green screen option allows you to replace the background of your webcam video with any picture or even movie, so you can turn your room to a fantastic landscape, or move the action to Amazon jungles, or just replace a part of the background with additional graphic content. Basically, green screening replaces some color of the original footage (usually, this color is green, that’s where the name comes from) with an arbitrary image, computer graphics or another footage. As computer performance progressed, the technology became available for home use too.

Green screening also known as “chroma key” is a filming technology that is in charge for believable cosmic battles in Star Wars, gloom remnants of the human civilization in Terminator, and beautiful sea sunsets in Titanic.

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