• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Keying down a specific color

  Posted by Arthur Luhn on August 19, 2007 at 12:14 pm

  Hello,

  I have a scene where there is a blue light which is too intense. How do I key or desaturate this specific blue without affecting overall color too much.

  Thanks..

  Tom Wolsky replied 18 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Misha Tenenbaum

  August 19, 2007 at 5:17 pm

  I’m no expert but one way to ” desaturate this specific blue without affecting overall color too much” would be to make a second video track and copy and paste the same thing that is on the layer below. Then crop or Vignette the upper layer and add a color corrector filter to it…

  The other way is to export it to color where you can have control over just certain areas of the image.

  Misha tenenbaum
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  Tom Wolsky

  August 19, 2007 at 5:24 pm

  You can do this best in Color, but in the Color Corrector 3-way open up secondary color correction, but the blue area, adjust the matte selection, and then use the sliders and color controls to adjust that specific area of the image.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

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