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The Stats
- Developer: Digital Film Tools
- Version: 2.0
- Platforms: Macintosh, Windows, Irix
- Host Applications: Adobe After Effects 5.0 or above, Apple Final Cut Pro 1.0 or above, Avid Editing Systems, Adobe After Effects Compatible Programs, Discreet Combustion, Eyeon Digital Fusion, Discreet Flint, Flame, Inferno, Smoke and Fire. New Adobe Photoshop version and Apple Shake version with zMatte 2.0 (see press release below)
- Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3 and Mac Universal Binary
Purchase Digital Film Tools zMatte
- zMatte for After Effects
- Upgrade zMatte from previous versions
- Digital Film Tools Keyer Bundle - Contains zMatte and Digital Film Tools Composite Suite
- Digital Film Tools' zMatte 2.0 for Avid
- Digital Film Tools Super Bundle
- DFT upgrades to Mac Universal
Download Demos
- zMatte demo - for Mac and Windows
Download Features PDF
Description
zMatte is a full-featured blue and green screen keyer that is the result of the experience Digital Film Tools has in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. Using proprietary matte extraction techniques and 16-bit processing, 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, light wrapping and color correction.
Press Release for zMatte 2.0
Digital Film Tools releases zMatte 2.0, a full featured blue and green screen keyer for Apple Shake, Adobe After Effects and After Effects compatible programs, Apple's Final Cut Pro, Avid Editing Systems and Adobe Photoshop.
zMatte is a full-featured keyer that is the result of Digital Film Tools 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 a complete set of keying plug-ins which include: Deartifact to clean up compression artifacts in DV and HD footage; Edge tools to color correct, blur or mix only the edge of the key; Holdout to matte the usually problematic smoke, fire and explosions; the zMatte Keyer to handle the heavy keying tasks; Light Wrap to bring background color into the foreground element; a Matte Generator used to key images not meant to be keyed; and Matte Repair to fix common matte problems.
Digital Film Tools is an offshoot of a Los Angeles based full-service visual effects facility specializing in feature film and television special effects.
zMatte 2.0 WHAT'S NEW
- Apple Shake version.
- Adobe Photoshop version.
- Polygon based Garbage Matte for Photoshop version.
- Deartifact, Edge, Holdout, Keyer, Light Wrap, Matte Generator and Matte Repair make up the zMatte set of plug-ins.
Plug-ins
- 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 - Edge 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.
- Holdout - 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 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.
Examples of Steps
 
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zMatte 2.0 WHAT'S CHANGED
1. Primary and Secondary Mattes now have individual Matte Extraction parameters. 2. Matte Extraction parameters have been expanded from the previous Blue and Green Screen choices to: Luminance, Hue Saturation, Average, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. 3. Color Correction has been simplified to include only Master controls.
Reviews
- DV Magazine, Keying 4:1:1 Footage, By The Rev. John Jackman
- DV Magazine Product Review, By The Rev. John Jackman
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