| | | | | General Software Problems Quality not quite what you expected? Need help with video capture, editing, encoding or playback. Post here for software not covered elsewhere. | 
06-23-2008, 06:57 PM
| | Junior Member Windows Movie Maker | | Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| | How to Remove One Color from a Video
Hey guys. Can anybody name a program I can use to remove a single color from a video? Like say I just wanted to remove white by hex code or something. Preferably batch processing.
Thanks!
| 
06-23-2008, 08:40 PM
|  | Super Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
Posts: 5,168
Thanks: 3
Thanked 15 Times in 14 Posts
| |
Originally Posted by blokhed I just wanted to remove white by hex code |
I have no idea what this means. Could you please explain what you are trying to achieve in your clip and I may be able to help. SOund slike you want to convert all whites to blacks (which is what 'removing' them would do. but I cannot think of a reason for wanting to do that.
__________________ I'm not young enough to know everything! | 
06-23-2008, 09:36 PM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Western Europe
Posts: 3,414
Thanks: 28
Thanked 95 Times in 91 Posts
| |
Or is it converting a video to black and white (grayscale) but leaving a single colour in?
| 
06-24-2008, 12:59 AM
| | Junior Member Windows Movie Maker | | Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| |
You're right, sorry. Better yet, let me pose it this way: Is there any way I can blur just a certain section of a video, like to blur out faces or something? The location would be static though, so it doesn't have to be edited per frame.
| 
06-24-2008, 11:16 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Western Europe
Posts: 3,414
Thanks: 28
Thanked 95 Times in 91 Posts
| |
You need to create a blurred semi transparent image in an image editor such as Adobe Photoshop, GIMP (find a link in Free Stuff in the Forum Announcements section to download this freeware image editor) or Paintshop Pro. It will need to be the same size as the area you wish to cover and will need to have a Gaussian Blur applied to it, you can make the shape a solid colour. let's say white or grey or set the Transparency to 50% to make it semi transparent. Save the image as a .psd on a layer of its own if using Photoshop or with an alpha channel if using another program so the surrounding area is transparent and not solid.
Import the image into your video editor, you will need more than one video track to do this and put the still image on track 2 above the video which should be on track 1. You'll also need to click and drag the image to the correct position so it covers the correct area of the video underneath.
| 
06-25-2008, 04:39 PM
|  | Super Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
Posts: 5,168
Thanks: 3
Thanked 15 Times in 14 Posts
| |
Originally Posted by blokhed You're right, sorry. Better yet, let me pose it this way: Is there any way I can blur just a certain section of a video, like to blur out faces or something? The location would be static though, so it doesn't have to be edited per frame. |
that's a completely different question to the one originally asked and is covered in an article onthe web site.
__________________ I'm not young enough to know everything! | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT. The time now is 10:35 PM. | | | | |