From Black and White to Colours, HOW

[krakkur]

hi, this is maybe a Looooooooooooooong shot, but i have a WW1 and WW2 video clips,

is there any way to make it in colours????

what programs do they use??? anyone knows?

and is it difficult?

[haloblack]

hi, this is maybe a Looooooooooooooong shot, but i have a WW1 and WW2 video clips,

is there any way to make it in colours????

Yes, but you're not going to like the answer.

what programs do they use??? anyone knows?

Photoshop, Gimp, most any paint program?

and is it difficult?

Very.

When studios colorize a film, otherwise known as "screwing up a perfectly good black and white movie," they use custom hardware and software that automates a lot of the work. Much like regular animation, and artist will hand-color every tenth frame or so and the machine will do the rest. To colorize a clip yourself you'll have to save each frame out as a seperate image, hand tint it in a paint program, and reassemble the original clip. At 29 frames per second... well, you see where I'm going.

[BJ_M]

"how to ruin a perfectly great movie in 175,000 hard steps"