Replacing colors

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Replacing colors

Postby Daniel_BMS » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:05 am

Is it possible to sample a color and replace it with black? Say transform all certain shades of beige into black. What program do I need to do this?
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Re: Replacing colors

Postby Mastamind » Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:25 am

Many programs will enable you to do this. Whatever it is, it'll need the chroma keyer effect, which is easy to use and manipulate in Sony Vegas. What you'll need are two layers- on the top, your video and just below that a solid black color (yeah, if you leave all the tracks below that empty it'll be black anyways, but it's safer this way). Add chroma keyer to the top track and get a sample of the color you want to remove. Play around with the settings a bit, and see where it looks best. :up:
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Re: Replacing colors

Postby Daniel_BMS » Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:21 pm

So there is no way to ink drop sample a color and tell a video editing program to replace it with black?
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Re: Replacing colors

Postby Vivaldi » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:33 am

Daniel_BMS wrote:So there is no way to ink drop sample a color and tell a video editing program to replace it with black?

No, that's basically exactly what mastamind said.

The effect you're looking for is called "chroma keyer" Though there's some settings you'll want to mess with to make it look right, that's the gist of it.
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Re: Replacing colors

Postby mirkosp » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:30 am

Guys... guys... :nono: "Change to color" effect in Premiere Pro (should be there from at least version CS3 iirc...) => Win => Cheesecake.
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Re: Replacing colors

Postby Daniel_BMS » Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:13 am

Oh good a program does have this feature. Many Adobe Premiere's have this feature. Adobe Premiere 6 is the earliest 1 I know of.
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