• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  “Pleasantville Effect” question

  Posted by Rosario Nitopi on December 13, 2007 at 11:39 pm

  Hi,

  I was playing around with using the pleasantville effect in a music video I am doing (ie. lipstick, eyes or clothing are color and everything else is black and white). I am familiar with doing this using the color corrector/limit effect in FCP but I was wondering if there are any tricks to limit/mask the effect to only one part of the screen or subject.

  Basically when I select the color of the girls lips or eyes fcp also selects tones in their hair or their cheeks. Other than filming more carefully and paying attention to isolate/contrast colors while shooting I was wondering if anyone had a trick to do this in post. Thanks for any help (I’m using final cut studio 2).

  Cheers

  Uli Plank replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Uli Plank

  December 14, 2007 at 2:23 pm

  If you own FCS 2, have a closer look at Color, it offers more tools for this job. That said, it will never be easy with a recording format that is seriously degrading color information like DV or HDV.

  Regards,

  Uli

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