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color correction selecting object
Hello everyone,
I was not able to type a clear subject for my question,..:-)
I am shooting a small documentary about my city. I want to leave the building or monument we are talking about in color and the rest in black and white. If i try to do it on basis of selecting colors and then playing with saturation, luma i do not obtain what i want because many colors in the momument match the rest. So i wonder if there is a like pen tool which oi could use to draw a selection on the object so i could apply the color correction and eventually mask feather filter to it to achive what i am looking for. Or maybe i am in the wrong direction and there is a much better way to do this…
Thanks in advanced,Saludos,
David Rodriguez
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10 Replies
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You can do this in Motion as it has far greater rotoscope options than fcp.
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I would try taking it into Color and using the Geometry tab, define the monument. Then choose the “outside” option and take the color saturation to zero.
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Thanks for your reply. I have just bought a couple of dvd trainings about motion and we’ll look into it to see how i can achive this.
Kind Regards
David
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Thank you Ron,
I am going to try that in Color while the training dvds for Montion arrive 🙂
Regards
David
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Hello Ron,
I am trying to do as you adviced within Color. It seems to do the job just great. I am just stuck in the final step when attaching the shape so i can go back to my secondary color correction to apply changes to my selected area. When I click on ” attach ” shape” nothing happens, in the “attached shape” my shape name is not displayed, it remains empty, and of course when i go back to sencondary tab, no shape is selected,…
Any ideas what i may be doing wrong ?Regards
David
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Hello,
I found the problem, i had to click on “close shape” before i was able to attach it.
This works great for what i wanted to do.
I will look anyway into Motion to see how you do this in there.
It is so great to be learning new things everyday !!
And you guys provide always the right tips to put people like me on the right track.Gracias !
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If there’s no foreground to worry about, Color is perfect for this. Motion would allow you to “cut out” just what you need frame by frame and allow you to solo just what you need. You’d then cc that layer as you saw fit. If going to color you would have to use a travel matte as Color does not carry or preserve alpha info.
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here’s a tutorial on how to do it using color. right from the cow. https://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_saturation_curves/video-tutorial.php
andrew
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Thank you Andrew,
I have now been able to follow the whole process and it works great. What i now understand is that this method is designed mostly for still images but if there is motion in the scene we want to color correct then we need to go to Motion to do the job instead of doing it within Color.
So, now i will be stuying the training dvds and tutorials to see how i can do the same in Motion so, if for example, i change the color of a shirt of person and the person is walking, it will keep the effect in the shirt while she is walking.regards
David
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david,
you can use tracking vignettes to follow the motion. i actually have walter biscardi’s training dvd on color and he went over this. maybe he can weigh in here and help you out.
andrew
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