This is most common when filming blonde people against a blue or greenscreen as their translucent hair will absorb the backing screen color. If the foreground object was filmed close to the backing screen or with less than ideal lighting conditions, the foreground object will usually have ‘spill’ somewhere on it. This allows the user to replace the solid colored background with a background image of their choice. The solid colored background area is removed and replaced with transparency. Primatte is usually activated on a foreground image with a person or other foreground object filmed or digitized against a solid colored background or backing screen usually a bluescreen or a greenscreen. Whether you are creating a documentary film, an indie production, news station promo or music video, Primatte 5.0 is an industry-loved solution that unlocks the secret to an easy, automatic key.Example of chroma key effect. Use the new Hybrid Matte for unprecedented control in keeping matte edges clean and a new Smart Sample algorithm for smarter foreground selection. An improved Auto Compute and the new Adjust Light tool are the special sauce in Primatte 5.0, creating an accurate key in a few clicks. Version 5.0 gives new levels of automation and efficiency with a reorganized interface, default settings that give great results, and tools to quickly tweak your key. That’s what you need from a professional chromakey tool and Primatte Keyer delivers. The industry-loved chromakeyer for fast, automatic keys Quality, speed, control. They offer it as Primatte Keyer 5.0 and it also included in their Keying Suite 11 which includes other keying tools that help professionals get the job done quickly and easily. Photron USA has handed off it's version of PRIMATTE for Adobe After Effects to Red Giant Software.

Film/Video Primatte for Adobe After Effects (Windows/Macintosh)

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