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Color Splash Video Effect

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

Make one color the only color in a clip: a red coat in a gray street, a yellow taxi, a green umbrella. Everything outside the chosen hue loses its saturation, while the matching areas keep theirs.

Choosing the color

Pick the Keep Color from the object’s midtones rather than its highlight or shadow, because those drift toward white and black. Tolerance widens the range of hues that count as a match. Start around 20% and raise it until the object is solid in both its lit and shaded sides.

Background desaturation

At 100% the background turns fully gray. Lower values leave a trace of the original colors, which looks less like a cutout. Other objects of a similar hue survive too, so a red sign behind a red coat stays red.

Footage that works

Color splash works best when the kept color appears nowhere else in the shot. Skin tones sit close to reds and oranges, so a red subject near faces often brings the faces along. Shift the Keep Color slightly toward magenta or narrow the tolerance to separate them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Each pixel's color is compared with the Keep Color. Pixels within Tolerance stay in color, pixels beyond it are desaturated, and Edge Softness blends across the boundary so the cutout is not a hard edge.

Lighting and compression shift a surface's hue slightly from frame to frame. Pixels near the Tolerance limit cross it back and forth. Raise Tolerance or Edge Softness until the kept object holds steady.

No. One Keep Color is matched per pass. A second color splash pass would desaturate the first color, so for two nearby hues widen Tolerance to cover both.

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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