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Pleasantville Effect

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JohnBen

Pleasantville Effect
April 01, 2006 09:33PM

Is it possible to acheive the pleasantville effect with two colors showing amongst a black and white video? I am using Final Cut Pro and need some help. I want red and blue to show because I am using a French flag, and I want everything else to be black and white.

If anyone knows, please explain...

Thanks,

JohnBen

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derekmok

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 02, 2006 12:03AM

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johnben

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 02, 2006 01:19PM

I know how to do the pleasantville effect, but I want to show two colors. When I use the method in the link, it saturates out all colors except blue or whatever, so the red is no longer there.

I need to find a way to limit two sets of colors, such as reds AND blues.

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derekmok

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 02, 2006 01:48PM

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Holding down SHIFT while using the eyedropper allows sampling of multiple colour ranges.

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Kevin Monahan

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 02, 2006 04:41PM

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Add 2 copies of the CC 3 way. Turn off one filter when you are tweaking the other. The technique is in my book and in the "Edit Well" magazine.

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Charles

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 03, 2006 08:37AM

Why is it called Pleasant ville when all the effect does is de-saturate foreground objects? Making them more Adam's Family Ville more than Pleasant ville..

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Jude Cotter

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 03, 2006 09:55AM

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It's from the movie 'Pleasantville' where everyone was in black and white, but gradually some people 'awakened' and aquired colour. Cute flick.

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derekmok

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 03, 2006 10:16AM

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Schindler's List used that effect as well, five years before Pleasantville.

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grafixjoe

Re: Pleasantville Effect
April 03, 2006 07:51PM

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It's named after the Pleasantville flick because they used the effect thoughout a large portion of the film - the effect was literally a character in the piece. Schindler's List used it in only a very few scenes to punch a few symbolic images.

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