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  • Change from color to black and white REVERSE PLEASANTVILLE EFFECT

    Posted by Rebecca Metcalf on April 21, 2014 at 2:58 am

    HI
    I DESPERATELY NEED HELP

    I am trying to edit a video so that black and white “creeps in” or “melts into” the scene. The video will be moving, I don’t want to isolate a color but slowly make the video turn black and white without any sleek wipe effects – I want the change to grow as subtly as possible.

    Please let me know if this is at all possible, any help would be really appreciated!!

    George Goodman replied 12 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Mike Smith

    April 21, 2014 at 10:23 am

    So you could try a gradient wipe, using a custom gradient layer (photoshop file would work fine, though you could use a movie clip) that has a soft mix of black to white, maybe from using black and white as foreground and background colours and then using the photoshop render / clouds as a starting point .. maybe zoom it in a bit, soften it, play around. Use plenty of softness in the transition.

    This would be to transition from a starting layer to a copy of that with the black-and-white look you want already established.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/transition-effects.html

  • Tero Ahlfors

    April 21, 2014 at 10:25 am

    The easiest way would probably be to keyframe a hue/saturation effect to go from -100 to 0.

  • George Goodman

    April 21, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    There really are a million ways to do this, but I would just fade in a tint effect if you don’t want a wipe. However you choose to do it, I would put the effect on an adjustment layer so that you have a lot more control of it. This way, you can animate a mask or do whatever you want to it.

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    Sincerely,

    George

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