[FFmpeg-user] Separately processing color channels via separate files

[Martin Cracauer]

I wonder whether this will work:

Can I separate out color channels into different video files,
manipulate them (e.g. different saturation for each channel) and then
mix them back together.

Something along these lines, getting two files for red and cyan:
ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vf colorbalance=rs=-1:rm=-1:rh=-1 cyan.mkv
[analog for green and blue = -1] red.mkv

Then mix it back in:
ffmpeg -i cyan.mmkv -vf 'movie=red.mkv [somemagic] overlay=0:0 [out]' final.mkv

Before I go down this route, is there anything that makes this doomed
to fail?

Is there a better method to kill individual color channels than -vf
colorbalance?

Is there any hope to maybe do the separation without re-encoding? Can
I just kill a channel without reencoding?

Thanks
Martin
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