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JasonN said:
brash_stryker: It took me a little over a month of "on-again, off-again" editing to recolor Dooku's lightsaber in EP2. I had previously tried using masks and compositing in both Vegas and After Effects to change the saber's color, but the results were never exactly what I wanted. Ultimately, I selected to recolor the saber by hand, frame-by-frame using a graphics tablet and the software Mirage (the predecessor of TVPaint) - it was definitely time-consuming, but it gave me the best results for my edit.
Having said that, I'd never choose to recolor ALL the Jedi lightsabers blue: all that work would probably drive me up the f***ing wall.... O_O
Do you happen to know how Ady changed the colours of the lightsabers in ANH (like Luke's inexplicable green saber aboard the falcon). I know he rerotoscoped, but he must have done some kind of colour change on the surrounding haze of the blade as well.
TheTome said:
Agreed, one thing at a time. I've done a crazy amount to my edit, but I focused on one thing at a time. If a sfx trick was needed to complete an edit then I would teach myself, otherwise I avoided that stuff like the plague, and yet now I'm color correcting. You'll get there. That said, if you are actually looking for help, the real question is what are you using right now? PC, Mac, software, etc.
I'm using a PC with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Any help is greatly appreciated.