Do You Have It in Another Color?

Let's continue with the example from the preceding section of the red car driving down the street. What happens if you want the car to be bright green or purple? What if you want the color to change while the car is moving down the road? If you have the budget (and an amazing, nearly unheard-of talent), you could get multiple vehicles and shoot the same scene multiple times, timing exactly the position of each car and so on. Obviously, this is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to execute. But with Premiere, you can achieve this effect with merely a few mouse clicks.

To swap image colors, do the following:

  1. Open the Video Effects window (if it's not already open).

  2. Scroll down or double-click the Image Control folder to display the effects inside.

  3. Select Color Replace, and drag it onto the desired clip in your timeline.

  4. Open the Effect Controls window (if it's not already open). Click Setup to open the Color Replace Settings window. This lets you compare the original clip with the output sample displaying the effect, as shown in Figure 6.31.

    Figure 6.31. The Color Replace Settings window.

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  5. Click and hold the Target Color patch to choose the color you want to remove from the image.

  6. Click and hold the Replace Color patch to choose the color you want to substitute in place of the initial Target Color.

  7. Drag the slider back and forth to adjust the similarity level of the selected color, or enter a numeric value in the Similarity field. The further to the left (or the lower the similarity number value), the more precise the color needs to be in the clip in order to swap colors. The further to the right (or the higher the similarity number value), the more tolerance of that color value Premiere allows to change color values. After you have set the desired value, click OK.

note

Clicking the Solid Color check box disregards the contrast of the targeted colors and replaces anything within the targeted colors' values with the Replace Color value in its entirety as a solid color. There are no gradient (more natural-looking) variables.


Getting back to our car commercial, in order to keep the shot moving as one continuous image (including the tires rotating without skipping a beat), and yet having the car's color change over time, set up your timeline as follows:

  1. Click anywhere between the first and last keyframes to add more keyframes throughout the duration of the selected clip.

  2. Select the new keyframe, and adjust the sliders in the Effect Controls window to set new values for that keyframe.

or

  1. Edit your original source footage into your timeline on Video Track 1A.

  2. Use the Razor tool from the timeline window to cut the continuous shot into smaller segments, as shown in Figure 6.32.

    Figure 6.32. The Razor tool allows you to slice a clip, adding new edit points.

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  3. Move alternating segments down to Video Track 1B.

  4. Apply the Color Replace filter for each new segment, as described in the section "Do You Have It in Another Color?".

  5. Trim each shot's start and end frames to overlap each other between Tracks 1A and 1B.

  6. Add a dissolve to the Transition Track of Video Track 1, as shown in Figure 6.33. When you play back your movie, the video clip should appear to be one continuous shot, with the selected image (and its colors) gradually changing from one color to another.

    Figure 6.33. Adding dissolves to continuous clips allows you to slowly blend different filter effects.

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Premiere 6. 5 Fundamentals
Premiere 6.5 Fundamentals
ISBN: B000H2MVO4
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 219

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