How to Fold a Pop Up Greenscreen

You triggered my PTSD... ;-) I have become a bit of a "how to fold a flexible green screen" video aficionado- now having watched more than any one man should. The first one you posted could be one of the best ones yet. I shoot a couple of green screens per month on average, nearly every single time I'm searching for one of these tutorials to put my behemoth 6x9 back in the bag. Apparently my muscle memory for this procedure has not yet been developed ;-O. Occasionally the production gods smile on me and it folds up on the first try, usually it doesn't.

Anyway, thanks for making me smile and thanks for the video. His is one of the clearest and concise yet. I'm going to nominate this guy for an Emmy. Time to add another bookmark on my phone.
 
Thanks! I was in the same boat a few years back. I was on a paid gig and had to google folding these darn things every single time. My clients laughed at me. Then I found one video, about five minutes long, showing the taco method. I haven't been able to find that video since, but from that day forward, I just had to remember "taco" and it worked! I thought it might make for a good YouTube short, so I showed the way I learned, and the way I do it now in the air (to keep from scraping up the edge on the ground).
 
I was shown this technique many years ago in The Flash Centre in London. I could fold it by accident without understanding how or why I had managed it and often it would go unfolded into the car and back into my storage still unfolded. The golden rule is get it in the air which he sort of showed. If you don't get the edge furthest away from you in the air it's never going to fold.
 
Back when I was a young grasshopper doing PA work, the crew I was working with would delight in tasking me with this and watching me struggle. There was a lot of laughter at my expense. Then I figured out that if you can walk a short edge into the crook of a wall/floor and start to turn it, it will eventually collapse into the correct form. I still use this technique to this day. I've never seen the "taco" method, but that also works!
 
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