Keying

Those of you familiar with other versions of Primatte Keyer will find most of the familiar controls in the Keying section. As its name suggests, this is where all of the keying functions are located.

The main Sample and Viewer controls in the Primatte Keyer plug-in interface:

Interface

There are several sampling controls within each keying section.

Auto Setup

The Auto Setup is a new feature in Primatte Keyer. It is an artificial intelligence algorithm that tries to figure out the backing screen color (blue or green), eliminate it and then tries to clean up any noise in the foreground object and the backing screen area. Ideally, the user should only have to do some spill removal as a last step in using Primatte. There are many things in a foreground clip that can interfere with getting a good result and if the initial result is not an almost clean key, then the user should perform a Reset and start the Primatte over using the standard four step operation (Set BG Color, Clean BG Area, Clean FG Area and Spill Minus).

This area on the interface allows the user to change the view in the Canvas window...