Really stuck! Need help removing nail polish out of video

[Jacob Lanum]

What I meant was that it picks from the original footage but continues ro show you the corrected footage.

[Craig Ricker]

Well, as far as I could tell it wasnt. Cause even if i used the sliders to just select red, it was showing nothign as selected cause after my primary and secondary corrections there isnt any red left in the scene.

So it really does only pick from the corrected footage.

Now on a side note. If i was to do all this from the FX room, maybe you coudl help me build my node.

I’m brand new to the world of nodes, but i’m sure I can work my way through it.

So far I have, my vignette and hsl key going into a multiply node, which gets me a matte of the finger nails alone. I can keyframe the vignette from here.

How do I go about, gently softening my matte, like I woudl in teh secondary room HSL selection.

And then what nodes am I using to give me the same levels of color correction as the secondary room had (i.e shadows, midtone, highlights, each with their respective contrasts, saturations etc)

I feel this is gonna get heck complicated 😉

[Craig Ricker]

Dont worry, I worked it out, but even with blurs applied, I cant get these dam fingernail looking any less shiny!

Looking for ideas on how to remove the shine on the nails!

Im starting to feel it is not possible, in which case I may need to get very creative in grey scale with some tinting, and a good excuse for using such a coloring effect 😉

[Jacob Lanum]

Okay nodes. You can recreate it all but with nodes everything is a just a piece. So if you want to soften the matte you add a blur node, to desaturate add a saturation etc.

Your matte is black and white correct.

One your matte is blurred feed it into a alpha blend
Node to the mask input.

Now you can start connecting you color, contrast, blur, curve nodes into another input of the alpha blend node.

That should do the trick. I might have some terminology wrong im away from the color station.
Remeber to keep your node tree connected to the output.