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Video Channel Mixer

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Settings are written to the URL as you change them. Nothing differs from the defaults yet.

Rewire the color channels of a clip. Channel mixing covers what a hue slider cannot: swapping channels outright, correcting one channel from the others, or building a black and white with a specific filter response.

Mixing and monochrome

Lowering a channel’s weight from itself removes that color’s contribution; raising it past 100% intensifies it. Monochrome mixes the channels into one gray, which acts like photographing through a colored filter. The mix is identical on every frame, so the look holds across the clip.

Frequently Asked Questions

Each output channel becomes a weighted sum of the red, green, and blue source channels, from -200% to 200% each. At the identity setting (100% from its own channel) nothing changes.

Turn on Monochrome. The mixed channels are combined into one gray by luminance, so the mix decides how each source color turns out: lowering Blue from Blue darkens skies, raising Green from Green lightens foliage, like a colored filter in front of black-and-white film.

Red from red, green from green, and blue from blue, plus Monochrome. The cross mixes ride along at their defaults; the full matrix is in the channel mixer image tool.

It is copied into the export unchanged when the container can hold its codec, and re-encoded when it cannot. A note under the export button says which happened.

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