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October 15th, 2008 by Rob Strobbe | 13 Comments |They say the grass is always greener on the other side. Today, we’re going to prove them wrong. Or right. At any rate, we’re going to change the color of grass. And we’re going to do it with Sony Vegas’ Secondary Color Corrector. Whereas the main Color Corrector FX operates on the Highlight, Midtone, and Shadow areas of video, the Secondary Color corrector can be used to isolate a specific color or range of colors to adjust. This leads to a number of possibilities from basic color correction to some very interesting effects. In this example, I’m going to edit a fishing scene so that the grass in the background is no longer green but rather a brownish color you’d see in the fall or winter. (Depending on where you live, of course.) The clip I’m using is from Stock Footage For Free. Feel free to download it from there (as of this writing, registration and downloads are free), use your own footage with green grass in it, or any footage that has a color you want to change. Understand that if you use different footage, the steps will be the same, but exact settings will probably be different.
