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The Stats

Compatibility

 Compatibility with Final Cut Studio 3After Effects CS3 CompatibleImage:Aecs4small.jpgMac Universal BinaryMac OSX Leopard CompatibilityImage:Snow-Lep-sm.pngMicrosoft Vista Compatibility

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Description

zMatte is a full-featured keyer that is the result of our experience in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots -- tools such as multiple matte creation, automatic spill suppression, sophisticated matte and edge manipulation, and color correction.

zMatte includes the following filters to handle keying, matte generation and compositing: Color Suppress, DeArtifact, Edge Composite, Frame Averager, Holdout Composite, Keyer, Light Wrap, Matte Generator, Matte Repair, Matte Wrap and Screen Smoother.

Features

Color Suppress

Removes either blue or green from an image. This is usually used to remove the blue or green light that commonly spills onto objects filmed in front of blue or green screens.

DeArtifact

DeArtifact is handy for cleaning up artifacts caused by DV and HD video footage. In fact, it is useful for cleaning up images that have aliased or jaggy edges.

Edge Composite

Edge Composite automatically generates an edge matte from an existing alpha channel and allows you to color correct or blur only the edge of the foreground. You can also mix the edge of the foreground with the background. This is very helpful for seamlessly integrating images as well as dealing with aliased mattes.

Frame Averager

The Frame Averager mixes frames together to create interesting motion effects. This plug-in is also useful for smoothing out film grain and video noise which can cause problems when pulling a key or generating a matte.

Holdout Composite

To add practical fire, explosions, smoke or other footage not containing an alpha channel, is normally a challenge. A normal Math Composite Add function would cause areas of the background to get brighter. This is bad. Using a key of some type would most likely generate unwanted, dark edges. This is also bad. Holdout Composite effectively composites images such as fire, explosions and smoke.

Keyer

zMatte is a full-featured keyer that is the result of our experience in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots - tools such as multiple matte creation, automatic spill suppression, sophisticated matte and edge manipulation, and color correction.

Light Wrap

Light Wrap helps blend the foreground into the background by making the color of the background "wrap" into the foreground edges without softening the edge.

Matte Generator

The Matte Generator extracts and creates mattes using advanced matte extraction techniques. Methods of matte extraction are luma, hue, saturation, average, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow.

Matte Repair

Matte Repair grows, shrinks or blurs a matte. It also is handy for cleaning up impurities in the black or white areas of the matte.

Matte Wrap

Matte Wrap retains the definition of the matte edges while creating a smooth blend of transparency starting at the edge of the matte changing to fully opaque moving inward. This helps blend a foreground into a background by mixing the background into the foreground without softening the edge.

Screen Smoother

Smooths out unevenly lit blue and green screens. By default, darker screen areas are brightened.

System Requirements

  • Photoshop CS3 and up
  • After Effects CS3 and up
  • Final Cut Pro 6 and up
  • Avid Symphony, Media Composer, Xpress Pro (Mac)
  • Avid Symphony, Media Composer, Xpress Pro (Win)
  • Macintosh Multicore IntelĀ® processor
  • Mac OSX 10.5.x - OSX 10.6.x
  • Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7