Hey guys, what’s up.
My name is Serge, and if you’re new here,
welcome to my channel.
Today, I’m going to show you how you can change
the color of almost anything in your video,
without the need to download or install any plugins.
Let’s jump into Final Cut Pro and get started.
We’ll start off with a simple example,
and isolate the blue color in our model’s dress.
Place your playhead where the color is clearly visible,
and head up to the inspector window.
Select the color inspector,
and from the corrections dropdown menu,
select Hue/Saturation Curves.
Down in the Hue vs Saturation curve,
select the eye dropper button on the right hand side.
Over in the viewer window,
click and drag out a sample of the color you want to isolate.
Back on the Hue vs Saturation curve,
you get three control points.
The middle point is the Hue you selected,
and one point on each side to limit the hue range.
Grab each one of the outside points,
and drag straight down
to desaturate all the colors except your selected hue.
You can also drag up a bit on the middle point
to add more vibrancy to your selected color.
In just a few easy steps,
we have this cool, Sin City style effect.
In our next example,
we’ll do the same thing, except this time,
go one step further, and make the model’s dress
change color throughout the clip.
Just like before, place your playhead over the clip,
go up to the color inspector,
and in the Hue vs. Saturation curve,
isolate the color of the dress.
Drag the outside control points in towards the middle
to make sure no extra colors are selected.
Next, move your playhead to the frame
where you want the dress to change color,
and press Command B to blade your clip.
Select the second part of the clip,
and go back to the Hue vs Saturation curves.
This time, select the eye dropper
in the Hue vs Hue curve,
and in the viewer window,
sample the color you want to change.
Move the middle control point up or down
to select the desired color for the dress.
Let’s do yellow.
Repeat this step as many times as you need
to make the model’s dress different colors.
Now, for the end of this clip,
sets fade back to the original color,
and fade in the background colors.
Place your playhead where you want the fade to start,
and in the inspector window,
add a keyframe to the Hue vs. Saturation curves.
Move your playhead ahead about 20 frames,
and drag all the control points back up to the middle.
Here’s our finished result.
Both these examples were nice and easy,
because there was no similar colors in either one of the clips.
For our next clip,
let’s isolate the just the model’s lips.
But, because the shirt is a very similar color,
this one will be quite a bit harder,
but still possible.
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Now, back to Final Cut Pro.
Just like before, use the Hue vs. Saturation curve
to isolate your color.
As you can see, because there is other similar colors in this clip,
selecting just the lips isn’t possible.
Sometimes dragging in on the outside points will help,
but not in this case.
To isolate just the lips,
we have to use a mask, and since our model moves,
we have to track her movement.
This is a perfect place to use Final Cut Pro’s built in tracker.
Go back to the video inspector,
and scroll all the way down to Trackers.
Click the plus button to bring up the tracking grid.
Tracking the lips in this example would be a little tricky,
since they change shape quite a bit as the model smiles.
To get the best tracking results,
let’s pick an area on our model with similar movement,
that doesn’t change shape as much.
I think one of our model’s eyes would work much better.
Move the tracking grid over the model’s eye,
and change the size and rotation of it.
The smaller you can make this,
the better your track will be.
Click the analyze button to track your clip.
Once your track is finished, click Done,
and go bak to the video inspector.
If you hover over the Hue/Saturation curves parameter,
you’ll see a little mask button
show up on the right hand side.
Click on this button and select Add Shape Mask.
Position the mask over your subjects lips,
and use the green control points to resize it.
Go to the color inspector,
select the area outside your mask,
and bring down the saturation
by dragging down the control point
beside Hue vs Saturation curve.
The last thing we need to do
is add the tracking data from before to this mask,
so it moves with our subject.
Over in the viewer window,
click the down arrow beside the track button,
and select the tracking data from your previous step.
Render out your clip,
and here’s the finished result.
There’s a lot of cool things you can do
with the color tools in Final Cut Pro,
and with the addition of Object Tracking in the 10.6 update,
now you can do even more.
If you want to learn more about tracking in Final Cut Pro,
watch this video right here.
Thanks for watching,
and I’ll see you back here next week.