I want to change the color of a shirt

TGS wrote on 8/23/2007, 2:25 AM
I have a poorly lit video made with a cheesy video camera in 1988. Back when quite a few cameras needed to be plugged into a VCR to get a recording. There's not much contrast and it's very boring, visually. I'd like to change the color of the shirt of the one person who is in the video most often.
Is there a simple tutorial that will give me enough information to do this one time effect? Or can somebody explain? I tried searching, but either used the wrong terms or it's never been brought up.(although, it must have) I'm not a pro editor, so don't leave out any important details. I haven't done anything too sophisticated, as far as effects go.
It's about an hour and 15 minute video and the person is not sitting still, so I hope it's not super difficult.
TIA
PS:The shirt color is now 'Teal' and I'd just like to shift it to a shade of Blue, but it's in a poorly lit environment and is not vivid teal. It's not dark, just not ideal.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgs-exp/show/with/1217349431/

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farss wrote on 8/23/2007, 2:59 AM
Is this actually a case of changing the color of the shirt, as in the person was wearing a green shirt but you'd like him to look like he's wearing a red shirt. Or is it just a case of basic color correction, as in the shirt doesn't look like the color he was actually wearing?

Providing a couple of screenshot would really help anyone who's trying to help also.

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 8/23/2007, 3:00 AM
Give me a still/screen/Vegas grab and I'll think about it.

No promises, but if it is to just improve the interest of the video - I;'m interested. Moving from teal - massively neutral colour, thanks! - to "another" it don't sound good!

However, I'll have a go at something else that might tickle your fancy? Yeah?

Grazie
TGS wrote on 8/23/2007, 3:29 AM
Hoo boy,
After 3 AM for me right now and I need sleep. I'll have to figure out how to put up a screenshot. Thanx for the response.
farss- Yes basically change the color. It doesn't have to be blue, I just thought that would be easy. The color shown in the video is not that far off. It's just boring.
Grazie-I'm way beyond bedtime now, I'll send one tomorrow. Thank you for the offer. Something else would be better, I'm sure.
TGS wrote on 8/23/2007, 6:14 PM
Okay, I created an account at Flickr for just this.
www.flickr.com/photos/tgs-exp/show/with/1217349431/
This will take you to a slide show of a few jpgs from the video
There are presently NO color or contrast changes, but it's been 'cropped' to include the entire frame and I'm planning on editing it from this framing. Although I'll include plenty of grainy panning & cropping.
I expect to hear bad news. Poor focus, dark, faded colors, no distinct edges, etc.
Actually, I don't care what I have to change, I'll change the wooden walls to a different color if that's possible, but mostly the shirt of the guitarist or the walls or both
PS: there's no real hurry on this project, it's already been waiting for almost 19 years.
FuTz wrote on 8/23/2007, 6:18 PM
http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-12.htm
rs170a wrote on 8/23/2007, 7:38 PM
Edward Troxel's newsletters:
Doing A Color Pass
Color Pass Reprised - Passing Multiple Colors

Mike
FuTz wrote on 8/23/2007, 8:01 PM
...these newsletters used to be ***gems*** !
TGS wrote on 8/23/2007, 9:27 PM
Thanks FuTz, I've actually seen that tutorial quite some time ago and I thought I had a copy of it in my computer, but I couldn't find it. Now to actually try it. I got weird filing systems of my own. I find stuff I've been saving all the time. I just don't find them when I need them.
I think I need to learn this part before I'll understand the other two links left by rs170a. Thanks for those too.
farss wrote on 8/24/2007, 1:54 AM
I suspect you may find the task more tedious than those tutorials would indicate. Looking at the stills there's no unique color or level to the shirt that you want to generate the mask from. In the tutorials there is. What you might have to do is add a mask using beziers as well.
Hopefully the mask doesn't need to be overly precise, just enough to stop the secondary CC picking up other areas of the frame as well.

Bob.
jetdv wrote on 8/24/2007, 6:52 AM
...these newsletters used to be ***gems*** !

used to be??????

I know, I need to get more done. :-(
FuTz wrote on 8/24/2007, 7:10 AM
lol

OK now, I rephrase ... well, "the rythm these newsletters used to be launched" was a real gem ... ; )

It's a lot of work to make this kind of followup and we know it jet ... all this without even mentionning all the coding you did for scripts here and there ... and yes, these are still relevant as of today's version of Vegas
Ethan Winer wrote on 8/24/2007, 12:13 PM
> I want to change the color of a shirt <

I did that just the other day, based on advice I learned here. I was wearing a bright red shirt and wanted it to be bright blue. Son of a gun - it worked really well. The key is the built-in Secondary Color Corrector. You sample the shirt color, set the "width" (the range of teal hues in your case), then "rotate" the color to be whatever you want.

--Ethan