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Ultimatte AdvantEdge
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The Stats
- Developer: Ultimatte Corporation
- Version: 1.6.2, 1.6.3 (Universal version)
- Platforms: Win, Mac
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, Microsoft Vista Compatibility
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Download
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Description
Now you can combine multiple frame images in just minutes. Fine hair detail, water, shadows, smoke, glass and reflections, even blurred edges -- all composited flawlessly and automatically with Ultimatte AdvantEdge!
Our AdvantEdge plug-in for Adobe, Apple, Avid, Eyeon and Autodesk offers an unparalleled method of combining multi-frame images to produce a composited sequence of images.
It allows you to achieve realistic looking composited scenes that would otherwise be too dangerous, impossible or impractical. Ultimatte AdvantEdge lets you place your talent in any situation without the expense of transporting them and their entourage to a location shoot.
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Features
- Platform protection AdvantEdge users get twice the flexibility because it comes ready to go to work on Windows NT/2000/XP, Mac OS X, and Red Hat Linux for one low price.
- Stylish user interface with automated controls The user interface has been designed to automate the control settings by easily sampling different parts of the image or matte with a simple eyedropper cursor. Once a sample has been taken the software automatically sets multiple controls to find the best adjustment.
- Fully-linear mask Eliminates hard edges -- fine detail, blurred images, transparencies and shadows visible in the foreground image will all reproduce in the final composite.
- Video Correction AdvantEdge is the world’s first matte generation tool with video correction filtering (VCF) for the 4:1:1, 4:2:0, and even 4:2:2 digital video formats. VCF restores the lost color information in compressed video formats and greatly reduces the blocky artifacts found in most blue/greenscreen composites using DV footage.
- Advanced Spill Suppression and Clean Up controls Automatically removes discoloration of foreground subjects caused by light reflecting from the blue or green stage. Removing excessive backing color spill from the foreground subject has been automated by sampling the contaminated area with the eyedropper cursor and watching AdvantEdge wash away the spill. Also Matte Clean Up now has individual controls for softening and shrinking the matte.
- Roto Screen Correction A revolutionary method for making poorly shot footage usable by automatically creating an articulate roto-mask to isolate the foreground without the tedious and labor intensive work of traditional rotoscoping.
- Smart Matte Sizing A totally new approach to computing the matte density without allowing the matte to become over dense. Over dense mattes are the most common mistake made in creating traveling mattes. With Smart Matte Sizing it is virtually impossible to over dense the matte.
- Color Conformance Matches the look of the foreground to the background for absolute realism.
- Garbage matte Allows overlaying an externally-generated mask to "extend" the blue or green screen so that wide-angle and long shots can be composited even though they overshoot the screen
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Host Support
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For Windows
- Adobe Photoshop v5.5 or higher
- Adobe After Effects v5.0 or higher
- Adobe Premiere v6 or higher and Premiere Pro
- Autodesk Combustion v1.2 or higher
- Avid - All Windows products supporting AVX v1.5
- Avid DS 6, 7 and 8 (32-bit only)
- Eyeon Digital Fusion v3.12 or higher
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For Mac OS X
- Adobe Photoshop v7.0 or higher
- Adobe After Effects v5.5 or higher
- Apple Final Cut Pro v3.0 or higher
- Apple Shake v.3.5 or higher
- Autodesk Combustion v2.0.1 or higher
- Avid - All Mac products supporting AVX v1.5
- media 100i v8.0 or higher
- media 100 sw v10.2 or higher
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For Mac OS X (Intel Mac-based systems)
- Adobe Photoshop v7.0 or higher (including CS3)
- Adobe After Effects v5.5 or higher (including CS3)
- Apple Shake v.3.5 or higher (including v4)
- Avid - All AVX products
- Final Cut Pro See Also [Ultimatte RT] version.
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For Red Hat Linux
- Apple Shake v3.5 or higher
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Support
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Reviews
- Video Systems, by S.D. Katz
- DV Magazine, Keying 4:1:1 Footage, By The Rev. John Jackman
