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Best way to change color of moving eye glasses in film
I’m editing some footage of a live performer. He wore two different kinds of glasses in the two performances, and I want to try and change the color of one of them so I can combine the two live performances and edit them all seamlessly.
In one show, he’s wearing bright yellow glasses, a bright yellow that doesnt appear anywhere else in the footage. I say this cause maybe it’s easier to just kind of change that color rather than tracking the object with FCPX as the glasses arent always in the frame.
Thoughts for the effects I should use and the best way to do this?
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4 Replies
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Hey Noam,
There are many ways of doing this, but the cost of re-shooting with the right glasses is likely to be more “cost-effective” than the VFX work you will need to do to isolate the glasses and changing that specific colour.
In any case, it is difficult to comment unless you share actual screen-shots.
As all you will get, is guess-work.Atb
Mads -
Sorry, should have asked whether you have tried SliceX from CoreMelt?
https://coremelt.com/collections/bundlesIt has Mocha from BorisFX as the driving force for tracking, and starts from $69.00
https://coremelt.com/products/slicex-powered-by-mocha
I’ve got it, but not used it “recently”.Atb
Mads
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I’ve had some tricky ones like this and did it in Resolve to avoid losing more hair.
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As much as I love Coremelt (been their friend and beta tester for over a decade), you don’t need it at all for what you want to do. So here’s a mini tutorial (and I think I answered this on the Apple forum, also). This is the most used and basic way to do it. If there are chroma/luma/IQ issues, you may need to use a mask along with this to help out. In really bad cases, sometimes a third party tool can help a bit. But if this won’t get it, it’s going to take a lot of work. Here we go…
Pull up the Hue/Saturation Curves.
Use the first option, the Hue VS Hue.
Click the eye dropper.
Click and drag on the color you want to isolate.
Three dots appear in the Hue Vs Hue panel, the middle one is the color you selected, it has a vertical grey line through it.
Drag that middle dot up and down to change the color of your selection.
If your selected color is too close to other colors, drag the two outer dots closer to the middle dot to more closely isolate that color.
Remember you can drag the edge of the Inspector pane to the left to make it wider, which helps with this particular tool.
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