Green screens have become an indispensable part of pre- and post-production for modern film and video. From blockbusters to YouTube videos to your local weather report, green screens and other chroma composites are everywhere. But you won’t always be able to tell if they’re being used. Digital technology has advanced so much that it can be difficult to tell whether a background is real or manufactured.

There’s a good chance that much of what you see on your screens has been replaced by a green screen. Thanks to improved tools and technologies, this technique is no longer reserved for the few. You can start improving your own home videos with a green screen.

Windows’ native video editor – Clipchamp – is one tool you can use for this. While it may not always be the first choice for professional video editors, it does have a lot of tricks up its sleeve for a native video editor, and adding a green screen is one of them. In this article, we’ll give you a quick explanation of green screens and chroma key layering, and provide a step-by-step guide on how to enhance your own video production with a green screen on Clipchamp.

A green screen is a colored background that you want to edit and replace with another background. It is used as part of a technique called chroma key compositing, where two videos (or images) are merged together based on the chroma, or color ranges, of the two videos. This replaces the green screen in one video with footage from the other.