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Contents 1 The Stats 2 Purchase Key Correct Pro 3 Description 4 Highlights 4.1 Features 4.2 Uses 4.3 Examples 4.4 Top 10 Reasons to Switch to Key Correct Pro 5 Support 5.1 FAQ 5.2 Red Giant Forum 5.3 Free Tutorial 5.4 Support note

The Stats

Compatibility

• Developer: Red Giant Software
• Version: 1.0
• Platforms: Mac Mac OS X 10.4.11 and later, 10.5.2 and later; Windows XP SP1 or later (32-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit), Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent)
• Host Applications: Adobe After Effects CS3, 7
• Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility and Microsoft Vista Compatibility

Purchase Key Correct Pro

• Key Correct Pro Download Version
• Key Correct Pro Boxed Version

Description

This set of 15 plug-ins can be in used in combination with any keyer to soften alpha channels, match foreground and background colors, fix outlines, and clean up noise. Ensures top-quality results from popular keyers such as Primatte Keyer, Keylight, and Ultimatte.

Highlights

• Seamless integration - The Color Matcher filter re-maps foreground colors to match backgrounds, making it easy to put your subject in front of a virtual sunset or other compelling backgrounds. Light Wrap gives the illusion that background-layer light is reflecting in the foreground, allowing the colored lights from sunsets or other scenes to reflect on your subject.

• Cleaner keys - SThe deartifactor PreKey filter fixes chroma sampling problems that are often found in footage shot on DV or HDV cameras. SmoothScreen minimizes background color variation before the key is pulled, while Alpha Cleaner fills in the holes and speckles in a matte afterward.

• Perfect edges - With Matte Feather and Edge Blur, you can quickly and accurately soften the edges of mattes, hiding the uneven and chattering edges that are often caused by noise, grain or DV artifacts.

Features

• Fine-tune Alphas - Easily softens and feathers alpha channels for accurate blending from any keyer

• Color Matching - Automatically color-match foreground objects with any background image

• Sophisticated Edge Controls - Lighten and outline the edges of objects to create realistic edge lighting and edge outlines

• High Bit Depths - All plug-ins work with 8-bit or 16-bit projects for DV, HD and film output

• Wire/Rig Remover - Powerful tool offers 5 different ways to erase unwanted elements

• Edge Blur EZ Filter - Gives you just the controls you need to soften mattes

• New Super Rack Focus Feature - See how the depth of field area is created

• New Zone HLS Filter - Indicates highlight, midtone and shadow regions to simplify color adjustment

• Speedy Blur Plug-in - Offers three different levels of smoothness, horizontal and vertical blurs, and per-channel blur options.

Uses

• Even the best keying technology sometimes needs help creating a natural professional quality matte
• With Matte Feather and Edge Blur, you can quickly and accurately soften the edges of matte hiding uneven and chattering edges caused by noise, grain or DV artifacts. Improved alpha channels can be output for integration in web elements using Flash 8
• Improve the color match between color key elements and any background using the automatic capabilities of Color Matcher and Zone HLS color correction tools
• Generate colored highlights and edges for motion graphic effects to outline an individual or objects in your images
• Wire and rig removal is quick and easy using Wire and Rig Removals blending tools and tracking in After Effects Professional
• Use the simple Denoiser and Alpha Cleaner tools to fix low-light noise problems in poorly lit footage

Examples

Top 10 Reasons to Switch to Key Correct Pro

If you are a Red Giant Software Composite Wizard user, you will find familiar tools but Key Correct offers the following enhancements that deliver vastly better quality and improved speed.

• 8 and 16-bit per channel processing that will deliver the highest quality for 10-bit video or film sources.
• Multi-processing support so output speed will be faster on dual-processor and dual-core systems.
• New Alpha Cleaner filter works as the old Composite Wizard tool but does both hole and speck removal in only one pass.
• New Edge Finder algorithm produces smoother results because of spline-based edge fitting and creates sharper corners.
• New Color Matcher filter offers automatic background matching, live tracking of background color changes from frame to frame and shadow, midtone, and highlight adjustments to achieve perfect matching between layers.
• New deartifactor PreKey(TM) tool for cleaning up color sampling problems with DV, HDV, and broadcast sources yielding much smoother results.
• New Super Rack Focus has added view modes to make it easier to set up so you can see exactly how the depth of field area is created.
• New view modes in the ZONEHLS filter show you the highlight, midtone and shadow regions simplifying color adjustment as you color correct.
• New Speedy Blur plug-in replaces all other blurs by letting you choose 3 different levels of smoothness, horizontal and vertical blurs as well as per channel blur options.

Composite Wizard users can cross-grade to Key Correct Pro for only $199, a 50% savings off the retail price.

Support

FAQ

• Red Giant Key Correct Pro FAQ

Red Giant Forum

• Red Giant Forum hosted by Toolfarm and moderated by Red Giant staff

Free Tutorial

A Free Tutorial By John Dickinson

Support note

Edge Blur was renamed Alpha Blur for the CS3 on Mac only by accident. Other than the name change, it works exactly the same and should be able to open old project, etc. Red Giant will update the installer soon.