The sky effect uses two types of masking and Chroma keying?

[MikesMovies]

Hi guys

A fellow YouTuber is now making videos like this

https://youtu.be/nl3EF0xG8I0

They include really impressive live skies as you can see.

He says "The sky effect uses two types of masking and Chroma keying techniques" and I'd love to have a go at this with Video Studio.
I have never used masks, but have done a fair bit of Chroma.

Any tips please?

[asik1]

mike, most of his stuff is dead still, so no problem to mask a frame in any graphic app, and use it.
Masks are one of VS's strongest point other NLE do not have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqTtHeZhLN8

[BrianCee]

can't see any reason why he is talking about masking at all Mike - have you tried just taking a video of the sky with the clouds drifting along and putting that in the top timeline with one of your already made green screen background videos in the overlay track and applying Chroma Key - why does he need masking ??

Obviously using a blue background colour on a blue sky would give problems which is why most domestic users still use green backgrounds - perhaps the Youtube guy has converted like many of the commercial studios have to blue screen - that obviously will give problems with a blue sky

you have already experimented in the past with lighting and colour shades so know all about that aspect - you can use any colour at all for Chroma-keying and any shade of that colour -with the usual providos off course - it must be a plain colour , evenly lit and most importantly must not appear in the overlay video - but I would expect your previous green backgrounds to work well with true sky background

I would suggest you just experiment

Masks are a powerful tool - but to my mind not as easy as Chroma key to use and apply - so unless you have problems with a real sky I would just use Chroma

[MikesMovies]

Thanks, I note his videos joint seamlessly between the sky and model background, maybe this is where the mask comes in?