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Colorizing Videos
Hi, is there a way to colorize black and white videos with vegas pro? Or is there a 3rd party app for this? Not looking for color correction but to actually make video clips in color. Thanks.
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As far as I know, there is no “easy” software to colorize black and white videos. You can do it, but you have to use your imagination and experience to manually paint in each color to correspond to various shades of gray, and go frame-by-frame. It’s a long and painstaking process.
Eventually it may be possible to teach AI to do it, that actually seems like a pretty good use case for machine learning models. But for now you’ve gotta do it the hard way.
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, Los Angeles/San Diego/Nationally Syndicated
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
After Effects Enthusiast -
Just wanted to add a note that this has now changed since my reply two months ago. The new version of Vegas (v18) was released yesterday and it has a Colorization plugin that uses AI to guess the colors in black and white footage. It’s far from perfect and it’s a first version, so it will undoubtedly improve over time, but it’s the best solution for now.
—– Christian Wheel —–
Radio Host, Los Angeles/San Diego/Nationally Syndicated
Audio Production & Imaging
MS Visual Studio Developer
After Effects Enthusiast -
I’m having issues with with the colorization plug in. For some reason it only works on some photos and footage. But when I try it on certain photos they suddenly disappear on the video preview. Is it a glitch in the system?
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