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Convert to black and white with a colour filter using FFmpeg monochrome
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What this guide covers
For editors who want a black-and-white look with a tunable colour-filter effect. You end with the filter's four options, their ranges and a way to compare settings. It is based on the FFmpeg manual and was not run, and the manual does not say which setting matches which filter colour.
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Guide title
Convert to black and white with a colour filter using FFmpeg monochrome
Coverage
For editors who want a black-and-white look with a tunable colour-filter effect. You end with the filter's four options, their ranges and a way to compare settings. It is based on the FFmpeg manual and was not run, and the manual does not say which setting matches which filter colour.
Example
A hypothetical landscape with blue sky and green foliage, rendered with two settings of the chroma spot to compare how the sky separates from the trees; nothing was run.
Useful starting points
- Keep the chroma spots within -1 to 1, size within 0.1 to 10 and the highlight strength within 0 to 1.
- Compare against a plain desaturation to see what the colour filter changes in tone separation.
- Expect to try several settings, because the manual does not say which spot matches which filter colour.
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