Posterize??

mel58i wrote on 1/30/2005, 1:04 PM

I got this clip which would benefit from reducing the number of colour levels.
"Ah" I thought "go to fx and put a posterize filter on". It ain't there! Am I dreaming or have I seen it in another editing program?

Mel.

Comments

nickle wrote on 1/30/2005, 1:34 PM

Use the "Threshold" filter. It is basically the same thing.

You adjust the percentage.

glk7243 wrote on 1/30/2005, 3:16 PM

My old studio 9 program had a posterize filter.

Chienworks wrote on 1/30/2005, 3:21 PM

The Threshold filter doesn't allow multple levels which are common in posterization. It changes each RGB channel to black&white so the resulting image is made up purely of solid white, yellow, magenta, cyan, red, green, blue, and black. This may be what you want, but if not and you need more levels, use the Color Curves filter. Create a curve that looks like stairsteps with as many levels as you want. Tweak as necessary to get the desired effect. You can even adjust RGB independantly of each other.

musicvid10 wrote on 1/30/2005, 10:19 PM

There is a program called AviEdit that can apply a number of Photoshop filters to video. Posterization, reticulation, etc. are easy to do this way.

FuTz wrote on 1/31/2005, 8:07 AM

It's a standalone? (AviEdit)
Have you used it? Reliable? Seems like something interesting, knowing we could use Photoshop filters... !
Didn't know about this app, thanx m-vid !

musicvid10 wrote on 1/31/2005, 12:33 PM

I've used it for years for effects processing, it really rocks. My old version only works with PS 4 type filters though. Its a Russian developer, and I think the newer versions are trialware.
http://www.am-soft.ru/