Re: Pleasantville effect in Color

[joppo te veldhuis] "thats gonna have to be rotoscoped. the videotutorial is done with the most easy example-shot there is, so no wonder Robbie is telling you it is so easy. if you want to isolate multiple colors (incl. skintones) it's almost undoable without catching other segments in your clip that match the same colorspectrum.
I'd do it in after effects ;) "

Joppo -your right the clip is a pretty easy example. Isolating one pretty consistent color or part of the tonal range is easy to do with the secondary saturation curve.

While I don't disagree that doing a roto on the shot in AE, Shake or some other compositing program is probably best, but if you have a lot of time or the subject that Helena describes in her shot doesn't move a lot you could essentially do the same effect with a User Shape vignette and keyframing control points in the vignette or tracking the vignette shape. After building the vignette simply switch the secondary to outside and desaturate everything outside the shape. Granted this is a pain in the ass but its doable if Helena is not familiar with other roto tools



Robbie Carman
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Colorist and Author