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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
We spend so much time trying to
make footage look old… but what if your footage already is old? I guess you’d have to color it then, right? That, and take junk out. So here’s a basic tut to walk through how it can be done.
Overview
- Core Training Value: In this tutorial we will take a black and white scene and convert it to color and we will also be doing some object removal.
- Difficulty: Beginner
Tutorial
Download Tutorial .flv
File size 150MB
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Excellent!
Pretty cool, love the way you explain too, pretty efficient
nice and pretty cool
but it also can do it in combustion also
love the enthusiasm!
Very cool tutorial!
nice tutorial… but why are you (the tutorial-speaker) yelling throughout it all? I’m using headphones, I have volume control. You don’t have to worry that I might not hear what you say as long as you don’t mumble It’s tiresome to listen to a person that constantly speaks in all CAPS even if I turn the sound down. just like reading posts in all caps… no matter if its size 72 or size 8. It’s still caps-lock engaged.
haha I agree with Johan. but it is a very clever tutorial
I think you should watch my tut also converting B/W footage to color which I made last year in April.
http://vfxrider.com/files/bw_to_color.swf
Though, great work Mr. Jay H!
Nice tutorial. Love your accent
I haven’t seen you on here before, Jay H. Pretty nice and fast tut!
I actually like the level of enthusiasm of the narration. Great tutorial, thanks!
I couldn’t watch the whole tutorial, you’re just so f*beep*ng annoying
haha yea i was a little pumped up . next time il put the mic further away
thanks for watching
THE FIRST THANG WE’RE GUNNO DO IS ADD A NULL OBJECT, LAYER NUW NULL OBJECT!!!!!
i also try to make blck white footage from VfxRaider.com
http://vimeo.com/8589331
both of tuts is great for helping
yeah Arsh is right. Vfxrider Chandan sir is great. but this tutorial is a stolen one from his site.
Are you f**king kidding?! I have to wait 70 seconds worth of ads to just watch a 15 second preview of the project. Eff that. Now THIS is worth complaining about if you’ve got a plus account, having to sit through ads even if you pay for the tutorials.
Awesome Ads!
Nice! And the clip is from It’s A Wonderful Life, great movie
I’m glad I’m not the only person that goes “brrriiing” when AE finishes rendering.
We linked those wall pictures and brushes to the null. It’s ok.
But I don’t understand how to link the ledge that we cloned to the null.
Please, someone, help me!
lol , thanks for watching
advertisment before the preview?!?
didnt watch it…
Please, I need some help!
with what?
Xrust email me at itsjh@yahoo.com il help ya out
Man! i need to take whatever you took before making this.. The energy is out this world! Make a tutorial about that.
LOL next tut
we need to add more passion so
in the effects tab type more passion
then parent that to the null .
=P
I understand U must’ve been very excited for this tutorial,ain’t u? so u started describing vehemently haha it’s good but please not always. love it.
very nice way of explaining!
Jay H, you are a thief ! You have stolen the idea from Chandan Kumar’s VFXRider B/W to color video tutorial http://vfxrider.com/files/bw_to_color.swf. You are such a sick and shameful person that you didn’t give the credit to him!
I hate your tut and your sucking voice.Go and steal some more tuts, moron!
wow .
1st i have never heard of or been to your boyfriends website .
2nd i have worked at a studio that does this everyday , all day .
3rd i think you need medication
4th have a good day
This is a good tutorial. All you guys who are complaining about him being too enthusiastic are full of it. It was just as informative as any other tutorial I’ve seen on here. Tutorials take a lot of time and effort to make and these guys are doing it for free. Show some appreciation.
P.S What’s the real reason that you don’t like the tutorial? I’m willing to bet I know the right answer to that but I’ll leave it alone.
kill me , it can’t download what”s the matter….
Hey man,
thank you for a great tutorial, i honestly appreciate it.
I have a problem though:
After cloning an retouching, and painting and everything, I need to export it as .png, as you suggest, but i can’t seem to manage that, and you’ve cut it out of your tut.
What are the exact settings for exporting, let’s say, the pigeon part?
I’ve done my mask adjustments on the duplicated layer, added that layer on the render queue. Now what? It exports the whole comp, not only the frame I need.
Same goes for the cloning part. Paint on transparent, switch to transparent.. and then?
Thank you, would be great if you could settle this one, in dummies steps.
got some crazy new real world tuts coming up sooon .
3d/Ae/Syntheyes/ real world shit . hopefullly ae and cg tuts will welcome them
send them through…
ae@tutsplus.com