selecting colors with Vegas 5.0

[Canadauser]

Simply select the “Color Corrector (Secondary)” video effect and drop it on the clip you want to manipulate.

Then click on the eyedropper (where it says “select effect range”)

Then move the cursor to your clip and select a range of colors you’d like to remove.

Then go to the Saturation slider in the window and move the slider all the way to the left… you’ll see the color selected will now be removed from the clip.

There are some tricks & tips when using this effect… for example… some shots are easier to remove colors from then others based on the complexity of the colors in the shot. It is very easy to remove greens and leave the reds (or vice versa) but difficult to remove one shade of red and leave another shade of red.

Also, you can use this effect 2 or 3 times on the same clip to remove several shades of colors… but if you use this effect too much on the same clip… the quality seems to be affected as the clip gets grainy.

Hope this helps.
Paul

[Jeremy Rochefort]

Edward Troxel has a great tutorial which can be downloaded from here:

https://thetroxels.com/vegas/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19

It mentions Version 4 but the workflow applies to V6 as well.

Cheers

Jeremy

MJ Productions

[Chris Young]

Try Moosehill Software. Karl Adahl developed a very good quick plugin for doing just what you want. Choose a single color and make the rest B+W.
It’s called the ‘6cc’ six vector color corrector for Vegas. Very easy to use and you can find it at:

https://www.moosehill.se/index.php?page=vegas/6cc.php

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Edward Troxel]

Vol 2 #10 of the newsletter gives the condensed Vegas 5/6 version plus a way to pass multiple colors.

Edward Troxel

[Ronaldo German]

Thank you all very much.
Best regards
Ron