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greenscreening

greenscreening is the present participle and gerund of greenscreen.

Meaning of greenscreen

Verb

greenscreen (third-person singular simple present greenscreens, present participle greenscreening, simple past and past participle greenscreened)

  1. (transitive) To film a subject in front of a greenscreen.
    • Chroma-keying, often called "bluescreening" or "greenscreening", is the process of filming actors, set pieces, and other foreground elements in front of a large solid green or blue-colored screen.(Can we date this quote?), RD King, Web Video Tips
  2. (transitive) To remove the background from a video and replace it with a different image or scene; to composite.
    • In this tutorial I will be showing you how to do greenscreening in Blender’s Compositor.2012 December 26, blendercrazy, “VIDEO: Greenscreening in Blender”, in blenderartists.org

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Questions about greenscreening

What is greenscreening the present participle and gerund of?
Greenscreening is the present participle and gerund of greenscreen.

Words near greenscreening in the dictionary

  1. greenschistic
  2. greenschistose
  3. greenschists
  4. greenscreen
  5. greenscreened
  6. greenscreening
  7. greenscreens
  8. greenshank
  9. greenshanks
  10. Greenshields
  11. greenship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: greenscreening (page history and authors); greenscreen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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