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Looking for a specific effect to add to video
Andrew_1957 [Avatar]
Member Joined: Jan 26, 2018 06:29 Messages: 93 Offline
[Post New] Dec 09, 2018 09:28
I'm trying to see if there is an effect which will slowly change 10 or 20 seconds of a video clip from colour to black and white, with the option to invert it the other way also

Does anyone know if there is such an effect available

thanks
Hatti
Contributor Location: Bonn, Germany Joined: Feb 21, 2017 15:54 Messages: 576 Offline
[Post New] Dec 09, 2018 10:26
I do not know an effect for that, but it can be done in PD16 without third party tools.
It is a little tricky, I cannot explain it, so I made a little video for you:



And excuse my bad english...

Hatti

P.S. I thought about it again: Or you can play with the opacity of the second clip by keyframing the opacity from 0 (color clip is visible) to 100 (b/w clip is visible) and back.

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tomasc [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline
[Post New] Dec 09, 2018 10:29
The effects you need are there. Highlight the clip. Go to Fix/Enhance/Keyframe/Saturation. At the moment on the clip you want to begin in B&W move the saturation slider from 100 to 99. 10 to 20 seconds later in the clip move the saturation slider from 99 to 0. That is it. Do the reverse when you want to change the B&W back to color.
Hatti
Contributor Location: Bonn, Germany Joined: Feb 21, 2017 15:54 Messages: 576 Offline
[Post New] Dec 09, 2018 10:37
Quote The effects you need are there. Highlight the clip. Go to Fix/Enhance/Keyframe/Saturation. At the moment on the clip you want to begin in B&W move the saturation slider from 100 to 99. 10 to 20 seconds later in the clip move the saturation slider from 99 to 0. That is it. Do the reverse when you want to change the B&W back to color.


Yes. My first way was a kind of awkward : When I thought it back, using the opacity was the easier way.

Hatti Win 10 64, i7-4790k, 32GB Ram, 256 GB SSD, SATA 2TB, SATA 4TB, NVidia GTX1080 8GB, LG 34" 4K Wide, AOC 24" 1080
Andrew_1957 [Avatar]
Member Joined: Jan 26, 2018 06:29 Messages: 93 Offline
[Post New] Dec 09, 2018 10:40
Thank you both of you yet again for your kind guidance

Will go and have an experiment now with this

regards
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