how to "flatten" colors

[cd090580]

Hi,

Is there any filter that can "flatten" colors in a video (by flat colors, I mean like in old cartoons where onyl one color is used for each parts instead of gradients or other modern coloring features).

I cand find one for vdub or avisynth, at least no one indicates "flatten" in their description
Thanks.

[zoobie]

see if there's a posterize filter...or even cartoon filter

[poisondeathray]

In the list of internal color filters, there are a few like like MergeLuma or MergeChroma that might work to your tastes

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Internal_filters

(scroll down)

[edDV]

Hi,

Is there any filter that can "flatten" colors in a video (by flat colors, I mean like in old cartoons where onyl one color is used for each parts instead of gradients or other modern coloring features).

I cand find one for vdub or avisynth, at least no one indicates "flatten" in their description
Thanks.

Do you have a sample? What format is this? What source?

Without seeing it, my guess is your problem is chroma noise.


PS: If you want to turn high quality video into cartoons you might explore colorization software where Y or YCbCr ranges are assigned a single color. These exist but I don't recall specifics.

[cd090580]

Hello,

Yes, it's for converting video to cartoon. I tried the MSU Cartoonizer, works great but I think I'll have better results if the colors are flat.

[edDV]

Hello,

Yes, it's for converting video to cartoon. I tried the MSU Cartoonizer, works great but I think I'll have better results if the colors are flat.

I can describe a software description but not a specific filter. I think Premiere has a filter that will assign a single YCbCr color to to a limit range of YCbCr components.

[jagabo]

Crank saturation way down, then crank it way back up. That will "flatten" the colors. I don't think it will solve your problem though.

[guns1inger]

MSU has a nice one for virtualdub that has quite a few settings to tweak. I have used it a few times to stylise footage for use in motion menus. Reasonably fast as well.

http://compression.ru/video/cartoonizer/index_en.html

[cd090580]

I already have this filter. I was trying to reduce the colors details before running this filters.

Thanks for all your suggestions, I'll try all during this week-end