Grayscale/Black & White filter for FCE?

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:35 pm

Doing a parody of an old trailer, and to help keep the feel I need to convert the finished product to black and white. Does anyone know either how to do this in Final Cut Express or what program I can run it through (on OS X) that will?

Thanks in advance!

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:02 am

Don't know about FCE (although I would have thought it would have had some rudimentary colour control), but in Avidemux you can use the filter "Luma Only".

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:01 am

Easiest thing to do would to be to export your entire video, then re-import it in FCE. Then, add a Color Correction filter to the video and bring the saturation down to 0. If you just need B/W in just a few parts, you can do the same thing to each clip.

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:56 am

Exactly as you said. Thanks again!

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:56 pm

No problem