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Overdrive effect but without the crazy shaking??
Hi,
So I’ve been looking for a while for a color effect that will allow me to add a red filter on a clip, one that could give the impression of having shot the footage through a real red filter in front of the lens. I have played with color correction and tints etc and although they allow me to make the image red in places, any lights for example (the clip is of a street scene with cars driving past) show up in white, so there is effectively three colors, the red tint, white for where the bright lights are and black for the darks areas, car outlines etc..
What I did find and loved, before I rendered to see that the effect also applies a frenzied shakiness to the clip, was the overdrive filter. This produced exactly the block of red color over the image that I am after, so everything from high to midtones are red and black is black, so it is two-tone, which is what I want.
To cut to my question, I was wondering if anyone who is more familiar with plugins and effect manipulation, might be able to suggest an effect or filter that gives me this two-tone look (red and then blacks coming through)?
Here is a freeze frame from the Overdrive effected clip, which I’d like to reproduce but without the shaking aspect!
Thanks for your help in advance.
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I’m not sure exactly what look your shooting for, but here are some places to look in FCP. These are all in the basic program and not ‘aftermarket’ plugins. The tools are all there, you just have to understand how to apply them. Many plugins are just shortcuts to thing’s that you already have in FCP.
There is a whole slew of filters in ‘image control’ including ‘tint’.
In the quicktime filters there is ‘color tint’ and ‘color style’.
You can also use the 3wcc to isolate lum/color changes.
You can use a combination of filters to get a look you want.
You can stack two or more clips in the timeline and grade each so the mix gives the desired result.
If what you want is a ‘night vision’ look, but in red, you can combine the ‘channel swap’ filter with the 3wcc to get that look.
Scott Sheriff
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Remove the chroma with one 3-way filter, then apply the tint filter. Now adjust the whites and mids with their sliders to lower the dynamic range as needed.
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