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Adjust colour ranges with FFmpeg selectivecolor

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For colourists comfortable with CMYK-style adjustments who want a targeted correction, such as pushing greens or deepening blues, from the command line. You end with per-range cyan, magenta, yellow and black changes, or an imported Photoshop preset. Based on the FFmpeg manual and not run; visual results are not described.

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Adjust colour ranges with FFmpeg selectivecolor

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For colourists comfortable with CMYK-style adjustments who want a targeted correction, such as pushing greens or deepening blues, from the command line. You end with per-range cyan, magenta, yellow and black changes, or an imported Photoshop preset. Based on the FFmpeg manual and not run; visual results are not described.

Example

A hypothetical foliage shot graded with the manual's example greens and blues string; nothing was run, so the resulting colour was not seen.

Useful starting points

  • Quote the filter string in the shell, because the values are space separated and an unquoted command gives a parse error.
  • Change one colour range at a time and compare against the source.
  • If a preset file is not found, check the path to the .asv file.
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