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  • Colour Question – White.

    Posted by Mr_steven on August 20, 2006 at 11:29 pm

    I’ve just filmed my first music video and the singer is dressed in a white suit, and was shot against a bluescreen. I need to replicate him (which I can do), but I need to change the colour of his suit without affecting the flesh tones in his face. Is this possible to do this in AE ? Without masking the figure, and if so how ?

    Thanks.

    Steven.

    Mr_steven replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Filip Vandueren

    August 21, 2006 at 12:09 am

    precompose your keyed figure.

    If you look at your blue channel this has probably the highest contrast of suit vs. skintones.

    You should try to get a luma key out of that to put the fleshtones on a new ( duplicated) layer.

    then just tint, colorama, multiply, colour correct, or by whatever means you want to colourize your white to your new suit-colours.

    Good luck ! Can’t garantuee you’ll get perfect results though…

    You could also try to auto generate some masks by using autotrace based on a threshold of the blue channel. (see Aharon’s video podcast tutorial on supertight garbage mattes)

  • Mr_steven

    August 21, 2006 at 3:55 am

    Thanks for that, it seems to be working ok.

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