Known and celebrated for it ultra-realistic, saturated levels of color, the Technicolor® Three Strip process was commonly used for musicals, costume pictures and animated films. It was created by photographing three black and white strips of film each passing through red, green and blue filters on the camera lens and then recombining them in the printing process. Our Three Strip node was created under the direction of Academy Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato.

The Technicolor® Two Strip process was the first stab at producing color motion pictures and consisted of simultaneously photographing two black and white images using red and green filters. This look creates an odd but pleasing hand-painted look where faces appear normal and green takes on a blue-green quality, while the sky and all things blue appear cyan. Our Two Strip node was created under the direction of Academy Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato.

Film Lab.

To select a preset, choose one from the Presets tab.

Sets the intensity of the of the effect.

Intensifies red values in the image.

Blurs the red matte that is used to isolate the red values. Use this control to smooth out any noise that may appear if the Red Intensity is turned up to a high value.

Intensifies green values in the image.

Blurs the green matte that is used to isolate the green values. Use this control to smooth out any noise that may appear if the Green Intensity is turned up to a high value.

Intensifies blue values in the image when using Three Strip, but darkens image areas that were blue in the source image when using Two Strip.

Blurs the blue matte that is used to isolate the blue values. Use this control to smooth out any noise that may appear if the Blue Intensity is turned up to a high value.

Go to the Color Correct node to see how the Color Correct controls work.