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VIDEOGRAM wrote on 4/2/2003, 8:35 PM
Is your camera moving (i.e. pan, tilt, zoom, trucking ...)?
If not, it's only a matter of exporting a frame from your flower shot and bring it in Photoshop (or any other paint program). There, you produce a black and white picture, where the form of your flower is white and the rest black. In VV4, use this mask to separate yourr layers of the flower shot (one in color, the other in black and white.
If your camera is moving, then it's all another game. You will have to produce a travelling mate, sometimes as simple as applying a motion to your flower mate, but sometimes much more complicated.
Experiment. Have fun.

Gilles

Gilles
grock wrote on 4/2/2003, 8:36 PM
It is moving video
Cheno wrote on 4/2/2003, 9:08 PM
If the flower contains colors not found in the rest of the shot, you can use the secondary color corrector to isolate the colors around the flower and remove the color that way.

2nd way is to create a moving mask in photoshop or in Vegas, duplicate the video clip and track the color flower (1st layer) over the b&w shot (2nd layer)

mike
musicvid10 wrote on 4/2/2003, 9:20 PM
I was about to recommend my favorite freeware modeler, but then I saw that AIG sold Icarus to a startup that is going to sell it for 3000 pounds UK per license.
taliesin wrote on 4/3/2003, 2:12 AM
Yes, secondary color correction and saturation adjust are especialy for that kind of manipulation. Works great and easy.

Marco
PDB wrote on 4/3/2003, 2:59 AM
For a newbie, can anyone point out the tecnique involved in this using the secondary coulour correction??
Thanks in advance!

Paul.
FuTz wrote on 4/3/2003, 7:53 AM
Are you using Vegas 4 or VV3? Cause these filters are **new** in V4...
To know more about these filters, go to www.sonicfoundry.com then in *Support* and *Manuals*: there's a "small" 46 pages manual for V4 explaining the differences and improvements over VV3 and they sum it up very well in just a few pages.

Billyboy also got nice tutorials easy to understand on his site concerning filtering for both VV3 and V4: www.wideopenwest.com

If you use VV3, I guess all you can do now is rotoscopy... but there must be a way. Keep posting, there's many creative people here...!