How do I add a new background to my video without a green screen?

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September 17, 2021
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I've been tasked with doing some video work at my company and this is all extremely new to me. I am wondering if there's a way to change the background of a video to an image even though I did not use a green screen. What's the best way to achieve this?

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Steve Griffiths

Inspiring

... if this is all new to you, I suspect that masking and rotoscoping may be too much work and may not give you the result you want.

Particularly if the subject to mask is moving and the clip is longer than a few seconds.

Another option might be to crop and shrink your subject into a box and reposition them and overlay that over another background.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

Steve, gotta agree and disagree on this. AE has some pretty amazing tools that will automate this process. Yeah, AE has a stiff learning curve but I just needed to replace a small window in the background of a shot where the subjects hand and head occasionally go in front of the window... Found a tutorial on youtube and fixed it. The big issue is learning the basic interface and workflow in AE which is a really useful thing to learn... To the OP: you might see if you can find someone to hire to help with this who would be willing to let you watch over their shoulder (either in the room or remotely).

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

Sorry I should explain better. Basically I was asked to remove the background of a video AFTER I added our logo and subtitles to the video. So the video I would use the rotoscoping for already has subtitles and I'm wondering if it's better to just change the background from the raw footage that hasn't been editted.

so you've added the log and subtitles in premiere? Probably better to go back to the raw footage but would depend on the source and your intermediate output formats whether there'd be a noticable difference.