Corner video of myself onto another video editing out my background

[Greg Gesch]

Hi Daniel. By far the easiest way to do this is to key out your background. Have a green screen behind you (it only needs to be around your head and shoulders as you can mask out the rest of the shot – “garbage matt”). There are a lot of “‘greenscreen” tutorials around, look for ones using Keylight which comes with AE. Place your keyed footage on the layer above your other footage and then you can use Opacity to bring it into view when you want to see it. If you don’t use a greenscreen then you need to “mask” yourself out – which is a long and difficult process.

[Daniel Rodrigues]

Thanks, I appreciate your response! I will look into that

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Daniel,

As Greg suggested, use a green screen when recording yourself + make sure to have plenty of light both on your and the green screen, to get a better key. And, don’t wear green!

Not sure why you want to use AE for this job?

There are plenty of faster ways of doing this, that will give you the same quality, if not higher.
When I say higher, as an example, if you use PPro instead, you’ll have much better audio controls.
One big feature that will save you time is to use Auto-Ducking, so every time you speak, the game audio will fade down to let your voice come through.

Same goes with syncing audio and video up.

And, yes, you can do chromakey, create masks + Zoom/Rotate video in most editing software packages too.

My advice is as you are starting out on this new exciting venture, is not to over-complicate the production process before you have even got started, but instead concentrate on making engaging content.

Atb
Mads

[Daniel Rodrigues]

Thanks for your time in responding. AE is something I’ve become comfortable with, hmm I will look at PPro, thanks for the additional thoughts on this, this will help with my searches of how to’s as well, thanks!