green screen

[ green-skreen ]

/ ˈgrin ˌskrin /

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noun Movies, Television.

an electronic special-effects system, commonly used in television weather forecast segments, that isolates and removes a static plain green background from the live foreground shot so that the background can be filled or replaced with another image or video in a composite with the foreground.

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Origin of green screen

First recorded in 1980–85

Words nearby green screen

greensand, greensand process, Greensboro, Greensburg, greenschist, green screen, green sea, greens fee, greenshank, greensickness, greenskeeper

How to use green screen in a sentence

It also includes some fun features like an automatic video shake-fixing tool and simple green screen effects, which let you swap backdrops.
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It offers cutting-edge background replacement, removal, and blurring that’s possible with any webcam and without the need for expensive green screens or complex lighting setups.
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To create a character, Hour One uses a high-resolution 4K camera to film a person talking and making different facial expressions in front of a green screen.
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Not only is it more natural and better looking than ordinary location or green screen techniques, it’s faster — they’re working through 30%-50% more script pages per day, which any producer will tell you is unbelievable.
ILM shows off the new Stagecraft LED wall used for season 2 of ‘The Mandalorian’|Devin Coldewey|April 1, 2021|TechCrunch

With its green screens, choreo, and ample pet content, TikTok has been one of the best distractions this year.
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I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
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It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.
Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’|Marlow Stern|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Among the Perpendicular additions to the church last named may be noted a very beautiful oaken rood-screen.
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With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin