For an instructional video, I want to record a person next to an easel, and then project content on the easel in post production.
Can I achieve that using the green screen technique, or would you advice another approach? Can it be done in iMovie?
Yes and No!
Cover the easel board in green cloth etc.
Film the scene.
In iMovie add the green screen keyer and put the "projected" material on the track above.
However, the bit showing on the easel may not be appropriate and unfortunately in iMovie you cannot easily reduce the size of the image or reposition it.
For that you need something like Final Cut Pro which costs £250.
Alternatively there is an even better app called Davinci Resolve which is completely FREE but you do need at least Catalina and an i5 Mac.
Yes and No!
Cover the easel board in green cloth etc.
Film the scene.
In iMovie add the green screen keyer and put the "projected" material on the track above.
However, the bit showing on the easel may not be appropriate and unfortunately in iMovie you cannot easily reduce the size of the image or reposition it.
For that you need something like Final Cut Pro which costs £250.
Alternatively there is an even better app called Davinci Resolve which is completely FREE but you do need at least Catalina and an i5 Mac.
... so unless the projected content has exactly the right proportions, it will look rather unnatural and artefacts may occur.
That DaVinci Resolve software looks great, but unfortunately I have an M1 with 8 GB and a quick Google search indicates that it 'might just work' which makes me feel uncomfortable.
I'll think it over a bit more, maybe I'll try a picture-in-picture approach for the content. Open to further suggestions.
Thanks for your answer though, to the point and informative.
Just one problem . . . unless you are familiar with pro-editing apps there is a bit of a learning curve but a search on YouTube should throw up a lot of suitable tutorials.
Here's one for starters......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-WnFOEv4F0
UNFORTUNATELY!!!!!!
An M1 Mac is the best one you could have for DaVinci Resolve.
I don't know where you read that rubbish but it's completely untrue. Everyone is raving over the combination.
Use green screen on an object – not background
