Firstly I love the camouflage Pacer!!! 😂 Secondly what an amazing idea. I totally agree with what you said about the ‘off the shelf’ back scenes I’m not a fan of my own back scenes for all the reasons you said. The green screen idea is a fantastic idea. Especially for video making, could give the illusion of a drawn out rail journey simply by changing the background each loop of the layout. Love some of the ideas you have I’d have never have considered that 👏👏👏

Going to enjoy watching this later once I’ve ran the gauntlet of a 3 year olds birthday party 😬😬. I’m not massively happy with my back scenes so really interested to see what you are doing 👍

That has definitely got to be the way forward what a clever idea, I thought the part you filmed looked really good. Well done!

Lovely idea, I like it.

good vid nice work on layout thasnks lee

The problem with backscenes is the perspective. Any picture you look at must have a vanishing point. The higher up your viewpoint, then also the higher the vanishing point must be. The perspective of the model is from an airborne position, but the perspective of the backscene has to be the lineside. So it will always look wrong, If you have Train Simulator you are allowed to take a screen grab from that so as to create a backscene from the correct perspective. Regarding the Chroma Key, the background has to be brightly lit. I have found it easier to use a pieces of cloth that do not have the colour of the train. Green isn't a good colour to key to because green is used a lot on railway liveries! So, unfortunately is red. Thanks for uploading. This is my attempt at Chroma Key. I think the best background to use is a sky effect. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7yejLeQuN-yoGg.htmlsi=OuZHTnjcLI96XFuU

I've played a bit with this sort of idea. My loft has walls painted a pale sky blue that fades down almost to white at the base, and in places it has pale rolling hills painted on. I've experimented with augmenting this with digital backgrounds - you can see the results here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o6tdqq5iqr7LaYk.html. I found that keying by luminosity rather than colour worked well - if your walls are very light, like a British cloudy sky, it's quite easy for the computer to separate the bright background from the darker trains. If you have some hills or something painted on down near baseboard level, it works even better because then the train is passing in front of real, painted background and the computer can just overlay a photographic background on the 'sky' bits which are above where anything's moving. It was less successful where the pale background came right down to track level - I had to rotoscope the moving trains out in places, but that was partly a lighting issue. I don't have any experience of the software you're using, but Da Vinci Resolve is also free and very powerful for this sort of thing. You could get rid of those problems with the shadows at the top of your boards in just a few clicks by drawing a box around them and setting it as a garbage matte. I really enjoy these videos, by the way. Keep up the good work!

I sure dougattrenholmebar channel can give you some tips on this.