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Desaturating a shot, except darker reds?
Is there a way in Vegas to desaturate a shot, except for a given color over a certain level?
For example, I want the shot b&w except for some darker reds. The skin tones and such I want to desaturate, just leaving the areas that have a pretty solid red.
Thanks in advance for any help.
–the Fiddler
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Look at Vol. 1 #11 of Edward’s newsletter Doing a Color Pass.
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Thanks a lot man, that’s exactly what I was looking for.
–the Fiddler
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Maybe I’m just missing something, but I don’t think the newsletter says you need to set the layer one compositing mode (not the parent/child compostiting mode) to Multiply (mask) in order for it to work. Maybe that’s just with newer versions of vegas (than when the newsletter was written), but you have to do this or it won’t work. At first I was getting really frustrated, because I was doing everything it said, but not getting anything other than the white mask. Then I figured it out.
Not complaining, just letting people know, in case someone else trys this.
–the Fiddler
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Vol 2 #10 may be better. It shows a method of passing multiple colors but also gives a simple method in the first paragraph for passing a single color.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks Ed. I already did what I needed with the first method, and presented it in class this morning. The class loved it. But I’m going to take a look at this one too, just to learn. So thanks.
–the Fiddler
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Sorry for all the posts. I wish Creative Cow would update their forums to this century. That way I could edit my posts and most active ones would be kept current and such.
Anyway, if you want to see how I used the info given me here, go to https://www.fiddlerfilms.com then click the “Macbeth 1932” logo down at the bottom and there are links to the Windows Media Version there.
I think the effect turned out great.
Thanks again for the help guys.
–the Fiddler
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Good teaser, good effect, would have reduced the frame rate of the modern video to “match” the video of the stock footage, but I liked it.
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Yeah, I think it might be might be more of a shutter-speed issue. Not sure on all that (I’m not really knowledgeable on the camera end of things). But my camera won’t record at any lower framerates, and I didn’t have time to have Vegas convert it.
Thanks for compliments/comments though. Merry Christmas.
–the Fiddler
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