Black and White fading to colour

AlanADale wrote on 1/26/2013, 9:16 AM

I've shot a short video of the old parts of Berlin. I think a good effect would be the clip starting off in Black and White for say 10 seconds (trial and error of course) and then slowly disolve into colour for present day.
I'm totally beat with this as the B+W Sony FX has no animation. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comments

wwjd wrote on 1/26/2013, 9:49 AM

if you are using "PRO", you should have a little 'clock' on the right of the BW settings?
Press and automate all you want

Arthur.S wrote on 1/26/2013, 10:26 AM

Another easy way to accomplish this is; Put 2 identical clips on the TL one above the other. Make the bottom one B&W, then shorten the top one to 10secs less (front edge),now drag a fade on it.

Chienworks wrote on 1/26/2013, 1:19 PM

Or even on the same track, with automatic crossfade.

johnmeyer wrote on 1/26/2013, 5:17 PM

Even easier: Color Corrector. Set Saturation to zero (B&W) and then keyframe it back to 1.00 (normal saturation).

AlanADale wrote on 1/27/2013, 5:27 AM

Thanks for all the tips guys - I'll give them ALL a go if for no other reason than to gain experience :-)

amendegw wrote on 1/27/2013, 6:17 AM

I like johnmeyer's solution. A alternate, but similar solution would be to keyframe the "blend amount" from 1 to 0 using the "Sony Black and White" video FX.

...Jerry

Arthur.S wrote on 1/27/2013, 7:13 AM

Amazing how many ways to skin a cat eh? :-)

richard-amirault wrote on 1/27/2013, 8:47 AM

I did the "fade from b&w to color" in the first few seconds of this video.

It was a few years ago and I don't remember just how I did it. I think it was b&w on the upper track and the color below (with the text above all) and a fade out on the b&w image.

I used a still image, but it would have worked just as well with video.