Need Your Expert Advice - Color correcting in Video

[andybiz_2005]

Hi All,

I have observed some creative still photos where the entire picture is in dull black & white & only the flowers that a wedding couple are holding is in full color (bright red roses). I've always wondered how these photographers managed to do this.

I also would like to know if my NLE Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 is capable of doing this kind of color correcting for certain portions of my edited video where the video is in black & white & only a certain object or objects in the video is made to be in color.

If Adobe Premiere Pro can't do this easily, can Adobe After Effects achieve this? I really want to learn how to do this as I think it looks real cool & can enhance my wedding videography business. Thank you very much in advance.

Regards,

Andrew

 

[x-angel]

I think there is a plug in for that. The name of which I cannot recall...

 

[Vampiresoup]

there is a tutorial on how to do this in final cut pro. Do you have FCP?

 

[Matt Sconce]

Here is a tutorial on how to get the pleasantville effect for FCP:
http://www.geniusdv.com/bw-tutorial.php

Here is is for AVID:
http://www.geniusdv.com/avid-pleasantville.php

 

[Blaine]

Yet another tutorial for the Pleasantville effect in FCP.

http://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_pleasantville_look.html

 

[Matt Sconce]

Here is how to do it in AE:
There are two ways really...one is to do basically the exact same thing as the AVID tutorial I listed above. Duplicate the layer, Desaturate the bottom one, and set a key for only that color on the top one. The second way is to start the same. Duplicate the layers, desaturate the bottom one, and then, make a mask around the item in the top layer (by zooming in to about 400-800 percent, and set its option to "add". Now you have identical layers with the desired obhect in color.

 

[Matt Sconce]

Also, this is a great FCP pro link on doing this by "limiting"
www.larryjordan.biz/ articles/lj_limit.html

 

[Derrick_SA]

There is a "Leave Color" plug-in in AE, or is it Premierre? Can't remember now.

- Derrick

 

[Kroy]

Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 is capable of doing this. The effect is called Color Pass.
Go to VIDEO EFFECTS
Select Color Pass and drag it onto the clip(s) you want that effect applied on.
Go to WINDOW (in the menu bar) and select EFFECT CONTROLS.
You'll see the Color Pass effect and two settings you can play around with.
The first one is Similarity and depending on how much or little you apply, more or less of the color you chose shows up in your clip.
Where do you select the color you want to show up? Right below the Similarity setting.
Note: this often does not give you a very clean color pass effect so you'll probably need to also play around with other color correction settings. This will vary based on your clip of course. A few minutes of putzing around with it should do the trick though.
Hope this helps at all.

 

[andybiz_2005]

Thank you all for giving me such helpful advice. I use Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 as my NLE, but I am also learning a bit of Adobe After Effects. Hope to try your suggestions when I have the time. Thank you once again.

Andrew