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The Foundry Keylight
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The Stats
- Developer: The Foundry
- Version: 2.1
- Platforms: Mac, Windows
- Host Applicatons: Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro 6, Apple Shake, Discreet Systems, Avid, Nuke (4.7 currently supported)
- 32-bit float point color space
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Purchase
- Keylight for Final Cut Pro (Node-locked) or Floating License
- Keylight for After Effects is not for sale as it is bundled with After Effects CS4
- The Foundry Keylight for Nuke (Node-locked) or (Floating License)
- The Foundry Keylight for Combustion (Node-locked) or (Floating License)
- Keylight for Autodesk Systems
- The Foundry Keylight 2.1 for Shake (Node-Locked) or (Floating-license)
Note: Keylight for Shake is bundled with Apple Shake 3.5
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Description
Use Keylight to create high-quality mattes, and work with other advanced tools such as the Matte Choker and the Spill Suppressor. Keylight is a blue and green screen keyer, for Autodesk's Combustion and Adobe's After Effects Standard Edition desktop software. This release extends this acclaimed and hugely popular keying technology to the global After Effects and Combustion communities, delivering a powerful new toolset for the creation of quality visual effects.
Keylight is easy to use, and is highly effective at tackling shots in which it is problematic to pull a clean key, particularly shots featuring hair, reflections and semi-transparent areas. Spill suppression is built-in, meaning that selection of the screen colour is often all that is needed for the user to pull a perfect matte and allow effects elements to be seamlessly seated together and to look genuinely photographed. Its ease of use, and ability to tackle difficult footage via an array of built-in tools, has earned Keylight an enviable reputation, and established it as a favourite with visual effects facilities and artists across the world.
Keylight is an Academy Award winning keyer. It is simple to use and is particularly good at tackling reflections, semi-transparent areas and hair. Because spill suppression is built-in, often selecting the screen colour is all you need to do to pull the matte and seat the foreground into the background so it looks photographed rather than composited. Keylight is available as a free upgrade for After Effects 7.0 Professional users or can be purchased for use with After Effects 7.0 Standard. Keylight is fully floating point for use in 32 bpc projects and comes with a suite of tools to erode, soften, despot and otherwise manipulate the matte should the need arise. Inside and outside masks are supported. Separate colour correction, suppression and edge correction tools are also included to fine tune the result.
Features
- Outside matte input to manage shots with uneven light
- Inside matte input to aid the prevention of print through and to help maintain the true colours of the source image
- Advanced integrated spill management
- Separate colour correction, suppression and edge correction tools for fine-tuning
- Substantial matte processing tools for refining mattes
- Extensive viewing capabilities for rapid troubleshooting
- Built-in controls for blurring chrominance, helping to pull cleaner keys from compressed footage
- 8 and 16-bit image support
- PDF user guide complete with tutorials
Support
Known Issues
Mac - With 2K footage, the mask shape is producing an OFFSET mask when used with Inside Mask. (Footage is not the same size as comp): 2K footage, HD comp.
- Steps that do not work:
- Add Keylight
- Key
- Draw mask
- Set mask to NONE
- Define mask as INSIDE
- Steps that work (irregularly)
- Draw mask
- Set mask to None
- Apply PRESET of keylight
- Define (redefine) INSIDE/OUTSIDE mask.
Tutorials
- Keylight Video Tutorial by Chris Meyer
- Keylight Video Tutorial by Angie Taylor (Sept 16, 2007)
User Reviews
- "Keylight is just wonderful...I used it effectively on a seven second shot that had people with frilly hair over a fairly flat beige-cream background...and darned if it isn't pulling a clean matte. Thanks for making After Effects just that much more valuable with your product!" - J C Burns, John Christopher Burns Design.
- "I just got some DV footage in, and between the Magic Bullet de-artifactor and Keylight, I got a near perfect (well, as good as it gets with DV...) result with a little bit of tweaking. Really impressive. I don't think I ever got a DV key to look this good, in such short time. No fluttering edges, nice transparencies, the works." - Barend Onneweer.
- "Yes, Keylight is outstanding - a really terrific addition to the tool set. It's fast, accurate, and offers a ton of different ways to correct bad keys." - Brian Maffitt, Total Training.
- "...powerful edge tools that are missing in most keyers." - Kurt Wiley *Keylight has been used on scores of films including: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Die Another Day, Blade 2, Resident Evil, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, the Beach, Notting Hill, Sleepy Hollow, Chicken Run, Lost in Space, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Truman Show, Armaggeddon, The Big Lebowski, Mission Impossible, Last Action Hero, The Saint, Strange Days, Little Buddha, Waterworld, The Quick and the Dead and many, many more.
Press Releases
- The Foundry releases Keylight for Autodesk Combustion and AE 7.0 Standard Edition - November 28, 2006
Awards
Keylight took 4th place in the 2009 Toolfarm Plug-in Awards
