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Black and White to Color!
Hey guys! Anyone know of a decent technique for transitioning footage from BW to color? Maybe some sort of a bleed from one to the other. I have some footage of a kid taking a bite of some food and as soon as he takes the first bite I want the footage to morph into color! Thanks guys
Bones
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You could mask the colour footage and make the mask expand (with a feather) in a motivated way, that is, growing from the first place that receives whatever “energy” caused the shift from humdrum B&W to fabulous colour: the food? His mouth? You know …
Or you could use the gradient wipe effect with the footage itself as the gradient map.
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Hey Thanks Steve I appreciate the insight. Can you explain a little mroe in depth on “…you could use the gradient wipe effect with the footage itself as the gradient map.”? not sure where to start. point me in the right direction and ill go from there! Thanks
Bones
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Just apply effect>transition>gradient wipe to the colour footage, and the default setting for the map (in the effect’s settings) should be the layer to which the effect was applied.
Then you keyframe the transition’s completion from 100% to 0%. Or vice versa.
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Hey thanks for the quick responses. your comments have been very helpful.
Bones
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You could apply Mr mercury to a solid and use it’s alpha values as a track matte to a color version of the footage…
Mark
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