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How to Change the Background Color of Your Videos
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May 25, 2024
### How to Change the Background Color of Your Videos In this video, you'll learn how to change the background color of your videos using various editing tools and techniques. We will guide you through using popular software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and free online tools. You'll discover tips on creating seamless background changes, from green screen keying to color correction methods. By the end, you'll be able to enhance your video production quality with customized backgrounds, perfect for creative projects, presentations, and social media content.
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Are you tired of the background you're using for your videos
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Well, with what we're talking about today, with these two things, you can have an infinite number of colors and change up your background whenever you like
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So if you want to be able to switch up the color of your background like I just did, the two things you need are one, an RGB light like this
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So this comes with an app, so you can have essentially an infinite number of colors that
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you can adjust this light to. And the second thing is a gray wall
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So we're going to get into more detail in both of those. So let's talk a little bit more about the light
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So this is the Aputure MC light. So you can see it's very easy to switch this up to any color
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I can adjust the intensity, turn it all the way down right now. This is a fairly small light, so what you probably noticed is so when I have this, even
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if it's at 100%, it's not going to make the entire wall kind of a consistent kind of fuchsia
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color at this point. But the thing is, if I potentially had two of these lights, so if I had one just off
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camera here, another one off camera here pointed at the wall, I could probably have
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a more consistent color as far as a background. This is just a really small light
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Aputure also has a, what's it called, a practical light. So it's a light bulb
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So if you want to have an RGB light that you use with one of your lamps and want to be
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able to change up the colors, another option or two options are newer or GVM make bigger
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LED RGB light. So if that's something you're looking for, I'll put information to all the different
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lights down below in the description if you want to check them out. So now let's talk about this gray wall
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Yes, this is a painted gray wall. It's not that difficult to paint the wall if you've never done it before
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I'll find some tutorials and put them down below in the description. You can follow along, paint a wall in your home or office
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Don't worry, you're not going to make a huge mess. Just follow along with the tutorials and you'll be just fine
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A couple of other points as far as choosing the color. So you could use white, but the thing is with a white wall, the white essentially bleeds
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through a little bit so you won't have as deep or intense of colors. So here's a YouTube short that Laura, my business partner, created
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The wall behind her is white. You can probably notice the color isn't quite as intense as with what I just showed you
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with the gray wall behind me. The other thing that's important is using a neutral gray color
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So if you've ever seen one of these before, this is a gray card, 18% gray
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This is something that's neutral. It has the same quantity of red, blue, and green, the three colors that essentially go
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into anything. Whatever color you choose does not have to be as dark as this one
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So you can see the wall behind me, you can see is quite a few shades lighter, but it
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is a neutral gray color. So to learn how to choose a neutral color like that, it takes a little bit of work
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but a lot of the paint companies show you the RGB number for whatever color of paint
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it is. So why don't we hop on the computer and I'll show you a little bit more about that
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Okay, so here is middle gray. This is what I was talking about earlier. So if you scroll down here, 18% is what I believe the gray cards are
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So what this is essentially the same color. And then you see here there's RGB
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So 000 is black and 255, 255, 255 is pure white. And then so all the other colors in the rainbow, any other paint color, whatever it is, are
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some mixture of those colors. And so you can see this is 118 for all three
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The hex code is a different style of numbers, but it's essentially the same thing
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There's three numbers for these six digits. So you can see 76 three different times
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And so as you see, as you kind of, if you go up further, this darker color is 59 across
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the board. 149 is a little bit lighter. I think the color behind us is about that
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Not all paint companies clearly show on their website the different RGB numbers for the
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paint colors. But a lot of times you can find it by Googling it
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For example, the paint that I used to paint the wall where I recorded videos in Michigan
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was this one from Benjamin Moore called Wall Street. So seeing this color, not 100% sure, hey, is this neutral or not
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So by Googling Benjamin Moore paint RGB colors, I was able to find this website
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And so for some reason it doesn't show the entire name for Wall Street, but you can see
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that it's the same by CSP 20. Go back here and it says CSP 20
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So this color, for example, is 147, 148, 147, which is really close
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You can see a lot of these here. So Arctic, for example, or wool are fairly close as far as the red, blue, and green being
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more or less the same number. But if we go down a little bit further, you're going to see that not all of them are that way
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So for example, this one old, so it's 197, 187, 172. So between the red and green, there's over 20 different
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So this is going to be, you know, tinted to the red
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And so you can see a lot of different colors here. If you kind of scrolled on the same thing for C, sometimes it's hard to kind of eyeball
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So for this lighter color, for example. So if you can see the RGB colors, it's much, much more useful
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So for example, here's another one. These are bare paints. And I noticed this is our most popular colors
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I clicked on this one earlier and you see 160, 160, 159
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Good enough. Same thing if you're on Sherwin-Williams. You kind of have to play around a little bit
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Sometimes you can't see an amazing list. But you see here 150, 154, 150
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You know, pretty good. So I was a little bit worried finding the right gray paint color for our Mexico City
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office where I am right now. But this color I think looks pretty good
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So to find this color, we went to the local paint store called Comex
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And I like the name of this called Microfono, which is microphone in Spanish
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And on the website, it doesn't necessarily show the detail as far as the RGB colors
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But luckily when we showed up at the paint store, they had, you know, the paint samples
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the huge like flip book. I forget what that's called. And at the very end of it, it listed out the RGB colors of all the different colors
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And Microfono is a neutral gray color. And so that's what we use to paint the wall behind me
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One of the other cool things with a neutral gray color like this is if you increase the
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intensity of light that hits it. So you can see probably right around my shoulders, kind of the center of the circle, it looks
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pretty white. If I were to turn this off and turn this off, you see the color gets much, much darker
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The other thing that I could do, this isn't a huge office, but if I were to push the camera
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the desk and the light further away, there's less and less light that hits this wall
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There's another kind of lamp that's hitting the ceiling right now. And that's where you see and plus my monitor
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So that's the other cool thing with a neutral gray color like this is if there's very little
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light hitting it, what comes back to the camera looks black. Or if you have a very intense light hitting it, you can make the wall look white
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So what'd you think? Did I convince you to go out and get a gallon of paint, a paint roller, and to paint a gray
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wall behind you where you're recording your videos and an RGB light so you can switch
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up the colors like so. If you want to learn more about how to record amazing videos, check out the playlist right here
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Hope to see you in those and future videos.
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