technicolor!

[Steve Roberts]

Have you Googled “after effects” technicolor ?

[Chris Wright]

Here’s the best plugin designed by the aviator colorist.
https://www.tiffen.com/dfx_v2_three_strip.html

[Michele Stocco]

Thanks Chris! I didn’t know this plug-in, it seems powerful, i’ll try it later.
Yes, i googled technicolor, 3 strips, after fx etc. but still i can’t really find a good solution. the point is (and i saw on this forum as well that other people had the same problem) that i’d like to “copy” the Aviator method, so that i could customize it, but i can’t really get a good result.
i can’t really do a good matte for each color and i don’t know how to do it exactly. i don’t really know how to divide the footage in the 3 singol colors, and from there to track the matte of each one.
any suggestion? maybe my problem is that i can’t really divide the image in the 3 colors (i mean, i did it, but i don’t know if it was the best way…).
any help would be appreciate!

[Chris Wright]

I haven’t tested this yet from another post but if you read about how 3 stripe was originally made, you’ll logically determine the right tweaking from the channel effects.

“Apply a Set Channel filter to isolate individual channels.
Three seperate instances of the footage stacked using lumanance set channel. i only allowed one for green, one for red, and one for blue. then i tweaked the green a little towards yellow, the red a little towards magenta, and blue a lot towards cyan and blend them back together with channels combine. then you compress the midtones. i was very pleased with my results.”

[Michele Stocco]

hey Chris,
thanks a lot, i’ll try it later!

[Michele Stocco]

hey Chris, actually i’m really busy with another project, so still i didn’t try your system. I’ll start again this video project in 2/3 days (i hope, it just seems that alla the works of one month is coming in these 2 days…), i’ll let you know. thanks a lot for your info!
i’ll try as soon as possible.
michele

[Chris Wright]

Here’s pics of aviator after and before and a b/w tritone 3-d enhancement after and before.

[Michele Stocco]

hey there,
i’ve been busy lately so i didn’t really find the time to take a deep look into your technicolor project Chris.
Today i started to work on it. so cool man! your system is awesome! actually i’m starting to work on it with my footage, and it seems i need to desaturate everything a little bit, and try to work on the singol compositions.
there are few things (i.e. the arithmetic comp effect in the combine green into magenta and the combine red and blue comps) that i can’t really understand, but i’ll try to figure it out.
all this work is great but it makes a little bit of noise (with 16 bit or 32 bit projects as well). i mean, my footage doesn’t have the best HD quality but still, i worked with the P2 and i have 960×720 HD footages. i think i must level some of the effects you used.
but it’s incredible how near goes the color of the skin to the rock’s one (that practicaly was the effect i was loooking for).
i didn’t think about doing “two times” the 3 single colors extracting process. it seems definitly the best way to isolate them and in a way you can manage better each single one. the only thing it seems to me it doesn’t really work are the blurs effects, but maybe it’s just ’cause i didn’t really work on that. anyway even without the blur it works perfectly!
thanks Chris!

[Zack Mctee]

Do you have any preset that will work in CS6 for mac? I’m really anxious to try this process but my after effects crashes each time it tries to open your file.

[Chris Wright]

major update

ae cs5.5 technicolor 3 strip update

smaller file size with new shadow, sharpen features
turn video into 1950’s look. Bonus, you can also get 2 strip if you slide blue black level into negative number.

https://f1.creativecow.net/7019/7019