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BillyBoy wrote on 9/13/2003, 5:09 PM
I was going to write a tutorial some time ago, then I got Bell's Palsy, maybe I'll give it a shot in a couple days.

For now a word picture. Specal thanks to Dennis (SoFo) for initial guidance from a post he made here some time back.

The tracks are numbered 1-3, top down in the following.

1. Make three tracks. Put your video on each, be sure they align.

2. Drop the color corrector secondary on (top) track 1. This is a complex filter with lots of controls. Here we mostly just need the bottom half. Be sure you have checked show mask. How good the masking is determined by how well you do this and the next steps and also how much of the hue appears elsewhere.

CAREFULLY and SLOWLY move both the low and high sliders so that the object you are attempting to keep colored appears bright white. Everything else should be black as you can make it. What's white will retain its color. What's black will be 'blocked out' and only be in black and white in the final result. Don't expect miracles. How successful you are depends on your source material.

3. Track #2 the middle track has NO filters applied at this point.

4. Drop the black and white FX filter on track #3, set it to 100% black and white.

5. Click the 'make compositing child' button for Track #2

6. Drop the brightness/contrast filter on track #3 adjust for best overall effect

7. Fine tune the image if needed with some minor tweaking of the color corrector secondary filter and applying your regular assortment of filters on track #2.

REMEMBER this applies to ONE color.

MichaelS wrote on 9/13/2003, 10:38 PM
Another way to accomplish a single color, or limited range of color is to simply drop in a Saturation Adjust effect.

Set the Amount to 0, Spread to around 0.1000, both Low and High adjustments to -1.0000. Using the Center adjustment, find the color you want to use, fine tune with the Spread adjustment, then increase the Amount to taste if you really want that surreal effect.

Not as accurate perhaps as BillyBoy's technique, but an interesting alternative.

Good luck!
Udi wrote on 9/14/2003, 12:47 AM
You can also use the color blend, there is a preset called Red Only.