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mickbadal wrote on 5/11/2009, 2:43 PM
If the person is wearing a color unique to them, then I can get you a cool effect that is **close** to what you're describing. (To truly do an entire person in color while everything else is in black & white, you would have to either green-screen the person or rotoscope.)

1) Place two identical copies of video on over-and-under tracks.

2) On the top video copy, add chroma keyer FX first; turn "show mask only" on, then tweak low and high thresholds so that only the color you desire still shows through. then turn "show mask only" off.

3) Again on the top copy of the video, add Black and White as a second FX (should appear after the chroma keyer).

That should cause everything but the color you desire to be black & white in the video event.

Let me know if that gives u an effect that is workable for you.
Michael_M wrote on 5/12/2009, 4:12 PM
Thank you Mick,
I actually figured out how to do it after I posted this. I did it a little differently then you did. I created a duplicate of the whole scene like you said, but on the main scene I change everything to black & white using the Video Event tool. After that I cropped and paned the duplicate scene using the KeyFrame.

Thank you for your response,
Mike
mickbadal wrote on 5/16/2009, 2:58 PM
You've got my curiosity now, because creating an effect of having one whole person in color, with the rest of the original clip surrounding that figure in black & white, and being able to do that without green screening or the intense effort of rotoscoping, would be a phenomenal trick. Perhaps you've found a little trick that approximates the effect without a lot of effort? Can you explain what you did in a bit more detail? e.g. you said:

"I created a duplicate of the whole scene like you said, but on the main scene I change everything to black & white using the Video Event tool..."

What do you mean "Video Event tool"? Do you mean you applied the black & white FX? Did you apply it to the upper event, or the lower?

"After that I cropped and paned the duplicate scene using the KeyFrame."
I think your talking about pan/crop here...Can you explain this in more detail? To which video event (upper or lower) did you apply the effect, and what exactly did you do?