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Izzy Video 46 – The Pleasantville Effect

Time for another screencast. I had someone ask me this week how to do the “Pleasantville Effect” in Final Cut Pro. This installment of Izzy Video shows you exactly how to do it.

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8 Responses to “Izzy Video 46 – The Pleasantville Effect”

  1. Nathan Alber says:
    October 8th, 2006 at 5:11 pm

    Izzy,

    Is this effect available in Final Cut Express?

  2. Lee Andrew says:
    October 8th, 2006 at 6:37 pm

    Wow, now this was awesome! I saw another way to do that once and totally forgot, this was a much easier way though, so great tip, thanks for sharing!

  3. adsrian says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 5:18 am

    that was a great episode, you make it so easy

    Going to try it now

  4. Travis Patterson says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 11:54 am

    Great episode Izzy! I operate off of a Windows XP based system running Sony Vegas, but because of your detailed discussion of th etools involved I was able to adapt the effect to my platform. Thanks for another great episode.

  5. Ryan Mast says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

    The Final Cut Express color corrector has the same functionality, but it doesn’t have the eyedropper tool to control the Limit Effect.

    However, there’s a workaround:
    * Make two copies of the video clip right on top of each other in the timeline.
    * Open the bottom clip in the Viewer, and add the Desaturate filter. In the filters tab in the viewer, drag the Desaturate slider all the way down to zero. (You can do this with the Color Corrector filter, too, but since we’d only be using the saturation control anyway, the Desaturate filter will render faster for our purposes.)
    * Open the top clip in the viewer, and add the Chroma Keyer filter. Do the exact same thing that Izzy showed us — use the eyedropper to select the color that you want to keep, like the blue/purple in his clip. Use the shift key to select multiple points in the color area, so you get everything — just like Izzy showed us.
    * Then click on the Invert button — looks like keystone, exactly like what Izzy showed us in the FCP color corrector.

    That will give you the exact same result in Final Cut Express. FCE will do most things that FCP does, if you know how to hack around the limitations…

    Make sense?

  6. Nathan Alber says:
    October 10th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    Ryan,

    Thanks for the workaround!

  7. steve garfield says:
    October 11th, 2006 at 9:57 am

    Hi Izzy,
    Loved this one.

    I’m going to try it myself in the future!
    Thanks,
    –Steve

  8. big fan says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 10:07 pm

    This was awesome, I’ve always wondered how this worked and you explained it so clearly. thanks!

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