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We've shot some video and would like to have the background black and white with roses in color. What is the best way to do this? Are there any plugins that would help? I was looking at Keylight, but it seems like it's just for shots over a screen. There is a function in After Effects "Leave Color", but I'm hoping that there is something that can do better. This question is asked almost daily, unless you have the color footage shot over a greenscreen, you can't key it, you have to use masks and rotoscope the color footage as a copy over your B&W footage. Suggest you do a search on the forum using Pleasentville or Shindler's List. Same effect. When you're drawing masks you can actually be quite sloppy if you use the leave colour effect. Try this: 1) Drop your footage into the timeline 2) Duplicate it 3) Desaturate the bottom layer 4) Draw very rough masks around the roses - your only objective in drawing the masks is to make sure that you limit isolate the redness of the rose (ie if your roses are against a red-ish background you need a tight mask to get rid of the background, if there's nothing red nearby you can be as vague as you like) 5) Keyframe the mask shape and make sure that they stay over the roses for the whole clip 6) Now apply leave colour to the top layer and use the dropper to select the red of the roses. You should now have red roses on black and white.
Here are a couple of links to tutorials that show how to achieve this look:
Grant Swanson's Sin City tutorial on Creative COW John Dickinson's Leave Color tutorial on Motionworks
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How much color to remove. 100% causes areas of the image dissimilar to the selected color to appear as shades of gray. Tolerance
The flexibility of the color-matching operation. 0% decolors all pixels except pixels that exactly match Color To Leave. 100% causes no color change. Edge Softness
The softness of the color boundaries. High values smooth the transition from color to gray. Match Colors
Determines whether RGB values or HSB values are compared. Choose Using RGB to perform more strict matching that usually decolors more of the image. For example, to leave dark blue, light blue, and medium blue, choose Using HSB and choose any shade of blue as Color To Leave.
You need to shoot it accordingly, that is against green screen/ blue screen or cut it out with masks and work with duplicates of layers. I'm sure there's a tutorial on the "Smallville effect" somewhere, so maybe do a search.... Mylenium
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I think Mylenium meant 'Pleasantville', not 'Smallville'. Here's an article about this: "Remove all colors from an image but one"
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