After Effects Question
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- -scarabin-
i have black and white video, and i want to make it full color.
i have seen instances of this with still photography, where color is added based on the varying hues of the b/w image, but i haven't seen this for video yet, and i don't mean like with a gradient map in photoshop. i want realistic colors.
anyone know of a technique or plugin or something that i can use in after effects?
or at least fake it really well?
- soda0
so do you want it coloured so the colours are realistic (eg technicolour stylee) or just a variation of colours based on the tones in the images?
- -scarabin-0
realistic...
(as opposed to simply applying a gradient map or changing hue/saturation)
- kelpie0
I'm sure I saw a link to someething like this recently, can't remember if it was a plug in, experimental thing or (frankly) a wind up :/
- -scarabin-0
yeah, i remember seeing an article about it here a couple years ago
- soda0
Haven't seen a plug in for it but have been thinking about it for a while too. I think since a Doves video using a load of old stock footage (I think Intro did it?)
I imagine they used a shit load of keys, using the same footage repeated, bump up the contrast etc, then add colour?
Haven't had a chance to play with it but that's probably where I would start... shit load of work but!
- kelpie0
go on mate - hand tint every fuckin frame, it's the only way ;)
see you in a couple of years...
- -scarabin-0
ha, fuck that
my first job was hand tinting b/w photographs for a studio
did it for three years and am now sick off it
- kelpie0
I bet you are, christ that sounds like murder :(
- meter0
you can try Colorama
- ********0
suggestion: get a splotch of color tracked to a group of pixels, then use a blending mode on that layer...
- -scarabin-0
what's colorama, meter?
- quamb0
what those guys said- track colours or use the b&w to create fake channels of sorts. have no idea how that will turn out mind you.
that sky captain movie did it - perhaps research that.