Does Vegas 6 = Full version?

No, here is:
Vegas Movie Studio 6
Vegas Full 6
Vegas 7 Pro (=full)
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum (7)
Vegas 8 Pro
Vegas Movie Studio 8
Vegas Movie Studio 8 Platinum

My guess is you have VMS6. You cannot do what you want. You need to upgrade, like I did recently, to VMS8 Platinum, which is $49 (+$10 taxes if you live in Europe).

I have Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 7
but don't have secondary color to do this. Would I use the new blu ?

Don't have mask tab either, Will I have to up grade for this?
Thanks

no, you can do it with the newblue colorize videofx that comes with Platinum.
Here is an example:
http://www.vimeo.com/387995

To truly do this right you would need a mask or some other way to make only the jersey red. Since this is a still it would probably be easier to use a photo package like Photoshop, etc.

Paul, what do you mean with 'to truly do this'? Why isn't my example 'true'?

Do you mean picking out a single color like this:

click on "Color separation example in Sony Vegas" on the link below:

http://www.myhax0r.net/videos/Vegas Tutorials by dibbkd[/link]

You got me there, Ivan. I hadn't bothered to look at your example. I guess I need to spend more time with that effect to see what can be done with it.

That's really neat...I'm on VMS 6.0 and don't have the $ to upgrade right now. I wish there was some way to pull of this effect using 6.0....<sniff>

anyone know a way to at least get close to this effect in VMS 6.0?

You could TRY this, but I haven't tried it myself, and don't know how well it will work. (And I'm not at a computer with Vegas or VMS installed right now...)

Put two copies of your video on two separate tracks, one above the other. They must be exactly in sync, of course.

Now apply the Sony Chromakey effect to the *top* track. Use the eyedropper to select the jersey color as your "chromakey background color". Play with the sliders -- this should make the jersey color transparent. This will let the bottom (full color) track show through.

Now on the *top* track apply the Black and White effect. Make sure this effect is *after* the chromakey effect in the effects chain.

Hopefully, the result is a black-and-white track on top, with transparent jerseys that let the full-color version of the same clip show through from the bottom track.

If you need help with adjusting the sliders on the Chromakey, search this forum or the web (or vasst.com) for tutorials. In this case, getting a "perfect" key is probably not very critical.

Let us know if this works.

Tim L

Ooops: I see you are talking about doing this with a still rather than video. Everything will still be the same as above, though.

Actually I was talking about doing this effect on motion video.

Thanks for your suggestion! I have tried something like this but couldn't get it to work. Perhaps I wasn't doing the right thing with the "chromakey background color". I will experiment a bit and get back to you.

I BELIEVE I JUST PULLED IT OFF IN VMS 6.0!!!!

Here's what I did; slightly different than what Tim said, I think:

1. Three tracks of identical video. Leave all set to “alpha” for the moment.

Top track: Add chroma keyer effect (blue screen is fine). Select “show mask only”. Press “eyedropper” button and select color you want to isolate from the preview window. Adjust high and low thresholds until just the desired color is still showing; everything else has turned white or near-white. Set track to mask/multiply.

Middle track: Add black & white effect. Set track to *child*, leave as alpha.

Bottom track: Normal (full color), leave alpha, leave as a parent.

This seems to do the trick. You were on the right path, Tim - thanks!

mickbadal -- I'm glad you got it to work. I just played with VMS 6 a bit here at home and I think my original suggestion with two tracks will work and will probably produce the same results as what you've accomplished.

I think when you use the chromakeyer effect set for "show mask only" and then mask/multiply that with a child track of the same exact image, that you are essentially getting the same result as applying chromakey to a single track with "show mask only" turned off. As long as you then apply the black-and-white effect to that track *after* the chromakey, everything should work okay.

But regardless, if you have a working solution and you don't need the extra track, there's no need to change it.

Tim L