pale colors - help!

peekel wrote on 1/1/2003, 11:58 PM

Hey guys, A happy new year to all! A new year comes new questions for me, hehe. Anyway i shot an interview saddly in low lighting conditions therefore the person looks really pale. How can i remedy this for the person to look like she's living. Also i want to convert the video to black and white. Can you recommend a better way to do it because the B&W plug in has a very light effect and what i want is a dark and heavy B&W effect. Hope you guys can help me out.

-Ana-

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Grazie wrote on 1/2/2003, 2:56 AM

Ana - I've just upgraded from Video Factory to Vegas. I did quite a bit of colour Fx experimentation in VF - making B/W; increasing contrast; "chaining" fxs together; playing around with the "slider bars" in each fx and so on. Within VF I even got close to a rather passable "pencil-sketch" fx - making moving video "appear" as if they were the result of an artist "sketching" the scene - and this was in VF too! My bet you will get what you want in VV. You could start playing around with the Fxs in VV and the different "variations" in each fx - However, I'm certain there will be others reading this who have greater experience than I with VV who will "chip-in" some knowledgable and tested advice - yes?

But I suppose, if it aint in the "can" then chances are that it might not be possible - wait and see if a VVer comes back on this. In the meantime have a play-around with the Fxs as well - yes?

Grazie

TorS wrote on 1/2/2003, 4:34 AM

After BillyBoy's first tutorial came around I went back to some edits I had done on material shot in low light on an old analogue camera. His approach did wonders with them. It's a lot of work because you really ought to do each clip separately; sometimes with keyframes as well (you know how a camera's automatic exposure can make the editor look like a fool). But if you assemble similar clips on their own track, you can rationalize by adding the FXs to the track level.
Also, once you've fine-tuned a set of FXs you can save the lot as a filter package and apply it en bloc to the next (similar) clip or track. TIP: Save it under a descriptive name so you can find it easily next time you've fallen asleep during an interview :-)

Tor