Sepia settings.

[Flymo]

I edit with CS3 and would like several clips in sepia. In the Channel Mixer there are 10 settings, can anyone help me as to the various settings to produce a sepia colour. Thank you

[chrisk]

Hi Flymo,

The advice given in Jan Tozer's Prem Pro 2 techniques is to:

1. Apply the Tint Effect (Video Effects > Image Control > Tint) to the clip

2. Open the Effect Controls panel and twirl the Tint Effect button

3. Click the Map White to open the colour picker and adjust the RGB values to Red = 224, Green = 212 and Blue = 195

4. Click the Map Black to open the colour picker and adjust the RGB values to Red = 66, Green = 39 and Blue = 2

5. Set the Amount of Tint value to 100%.

The actual values can be tweaked to suit your individual taste, and the Amount of Tint can be keyframed to transition from full colour to sepia.

Chris

[TimStannard]

As an aside, when I did the post production on a silent film we made at Staines (pre-dating "The Artist" by a good 12 months) I looked at a lot of clips on YouTube to try to get an authentic look. The first thing that struk me is that, contrary to the popular images, old film does not appear to produce a sepia image.

I happy to be corrected on this, but all the example I can find are black and white (or varying shades of grey).

I suspect that we "expect" it to be sepia, because old photos are often sepia.

BTW our film was this: http://youtu.be/m1knq9zgkMM

[john ingham]

ha ha..we now know where your avitar comes from ;D excellent tim..i enjoyed that

[Brian Saberton]

Movies of the silent era were filmed on black and white stock but sometimes tinted for release. There are also some early examples where individual frames were hand coloured.

[TimStannard]

Movies of the silent era were filmed on black and white stock but sometimes tinted for release. There are also some early examples where individual frames were hand coloured.

I knew about the hand coloured, but not the tinting - I always thought that was just an aging process. Thanks for the correction, Brian.