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  • Color Selection

    Posted by Adam Dow on July 14, 2007 at 8:54 am

    I need help making a single color range in my footage remain while all the other color values go to black and white.

    Like a scarf or a shirt or something that glows red while everything else is gray.
    This is a classic effect in most T.V. adds.

    What effect would work best to do this and is there any online tutorial I might use for reference?
    Thank you
    A.D.D.

    Brendan Coots replied 18 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Devon Peet

    July 14, 2007 at 9:47 am
  • Mobzie

    July 14, 2007 at 9:51 am

    I am no expert at this but you could just make 2 copies of your footage and then on the top copy first key out your color range, and then apply tint to change it to BW.

    Note: turn off bottom layer when keying … makes it less confusing…

    Cheers
    Mobz

    The world is my playground… hey who stole my toys.

  • Brendan Coots

    July 16, 2007 at 5:09 pm

    That is typically a secondary color correction technique. There’s a good tutorial for Final Cut Pro users about halfway down the page here:

    https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/cc_legal_fcp4.html

    If you don’t have access to FCP, you can translate the tutorial above directly to Color Finesse, with only minor differences.

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