Pleasantville effect…kinda…

[Victor Perez]

Color is best for this effect, but if you want to do it in FCP

Add the 3 way color corrector to your clip.
open the 3 way color corrector so you can see the 3 color wheels.
Click on the tiny triangle in the bottom left of the 3 Way.
Click on the eyedropper and click on the color you want to keep.
Set the saturation bar above the tiny triangle to zero to get rid of the color you want to keep. You can inverse later.
Adjust the spreader bars to cover all of the color.
use edge thinning and softening, click on the key box to see the matte you are creating to make sure all is covered.
click on the inverse box (third one on the bottom) to inverse what you did.
Use garbage matte to clean up unwanted edges.

If you don’t know how to use Apple Color, once you do it will probably take less time to do this effect. If you have an entire film I would recommend learning Color. It will also be much cleaner.

good luck,

Victor

[Elizabeth Allen]

Thanks Victor.

I appreciate your response. What I am trying to do though is instead of completely desaturating the rest of the shot, I would like it to have a blue cast. Can I do this with the 3-Way color corrector or do I need to move it to color?

Thanks.

Elizabeth Allen

[Victor Perez]

I would say Apple Color. You can treat each action (color change) you want in its own room in color which is especially useful if there is action in your shot. I generally only use Color Correction in FCP for basic correction even tho you can do more with it, but for that I use Apple Color.

I’m sure there is a tutorial for a similar effect you are looking for here on the Cow. There also are a few on the Apple website

https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials/

good luck,

Victor

[Dennis Leppell]

Watch this tutorial…it’s only a few minutes…and really think it through. the techniques shown here are similar to what Victor said, just keep an eye on how you can can apply the method to what you are trying to do.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Duplicate the effect once you get the desired colors you want to keep for the flowers, then click the inverse button and change that to a “bluish cast”.

Jeremy

[Matthew Campagna]

Do the 2 effects overlap at any point?

If they do not overlap, then you might be able to keep your original desaturated and duplicate the effect with the other object you want to be color and then stack the videos on top of each other in FCP. The all you have to do is use a mask to include the B&W with 2 objects in color. This way you can continue to use FCP and avoid the learning curve of Color. It will also allow you to keep all your assets in one place.

If that doesn’t work, let me know.