Effect Help!

Hello,
I need to do an video effect where I can take color footage, and desaturate each color individually except for blues so you basically get black and white except anything that was blue is still blue. In photoshop you can do this with the Hue/and saturation sliders. Does anyone know how to do this or could you point me to a plug in that would enable me to create this effect?
Thank You So Much!!!

Hi Pinkertons:
Welcome to discussions!
This plug in may help-but be sure that you try it out first so that you are sure it is compatible with imovie 6. If you go to the home page, c f/x will tell you that it is OK to try it first.
http://imovieplugins.com/plugs/colorcontrol.html
Sue

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