Subject in color, Background B&W

jbd wrote on 6/15/2005, 2:35 PM

Does anyone know how make an object appear in color and the rest of the video in black and White. Is there a way to do it other than creating masks and keying every frame. I can't think of another way to do it. Saw it done on live TV and it blew my mind - maybe it wasn't live after all! I'm using Vegas 6.
Thanks to all - JBOND

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Coursedesign wrote on 6/15/2005, 2:40 PM

One way is to shoot the subject against a greeenscreen and composite him or her with the background on a separate track.

For other cases, auto-tracking is used in applications like Combustion or Digital Fusion (After Effects can also be used, but its tracking isn't as good).

skibumm101 wrote on 6/15/2005, 2:56 PM

is the camera static?

johnmeyer wrote on 6/15/2005, 3:02 PM

There are DOZENS of posts about this. A search will turn up all sorts of ways to do this. Most of them involved the secondary color corrector. These other posts will also refer you to tutorials over at jetdv's site. There may be other tutorials as well. Here is a link to one of the posts that I have handy in my little Vegas FAQ links file that I keep handy:

removing color from all but a particular item

Oh, here's another one:

Color object over Black and White

p@mast3rs wrote on 6/15/2005, 3:04 PM

Color pass. :)