Sin City Effect?

MoMeNToUs CeLTiC · Post by **MoMeNToUs CeLTiC** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:17 pm

Anybody know how to do this? Particularly in Sony Vegas 6.0. If you haven't seen Frank Miller's "Sin City" here are a couple of shots of what I'm talking about.

What I want to do (as you can see in the screenshots) is have everything black and white while one thing in the video has a splash of color on it. Again, I'm using Sony Vegas 6.0, but not limited. If you know how to do this please let me know..

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:19 pm

Very careful masking of the colored layer over a black and white layer would do it.

AthenAltena · Post by **AthenAltena** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:23 pm

I don't know specifically how you could get that effect, but playing around with some masking effects where you knock out one color and have a black and white version underneath could get you the effect you need. I'm not sure if that made any sense, but it's what I thought of first.

AthenAltena · Post by **AthenAltena** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:24 pm

I guess I was onto something, Kalium said almost exactly what I did as I was making the first post.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:39 pm

There was an article on how to do this on CreativeCow (IIRC) but it was for premiere. If there's similar effects in Vegas, it should work.

I actually did something like this before... I think an inverted color matte would work for a really prominant color.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:23 am

Didn't someone do a Bebop/Sin City trailer that copied that effect?

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:29 am

Masking is the only thing I can think of.

sayde · Post by **sayde** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:54 am

If it's a simple object your trying to highlight in that fasion, you *might* be able to get away with using the various garbage mattes in premiere to help you out. But otherwise, until proven wrong, you're going to have to mask it.

MoMeNToUs CeLTiC · Post by **MoMeNToUs CeLTiC** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:31 am

Ahh..ok..Thxs for all replies

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:51 pm

There's a really easy way to do this in Final Cut Pro using the Color Corrector. No masking involved. You just limit saturation to a certain color range...in case there's something in Vegas similar to that.