Best affordable chroma-key plug-in?

[Matthew Abourezk]

Thanks Dave,

I checked out the DV Matte site a few days ago (DV Garage). The info on the site is old, they way it works with FCP 2 & 4 (not 3) and they have not updated it since.

I sent them an email asking if DV Matte works with FCP6 on an intel mac, I have yet to hear back from them.

Thanks for the reply.
Matt

Talkingbox Digital Media Group, Inc.
http://www.talkingboxdmg.com
(203) 327-6617

[Winston A. cely]

I use DV Garage’s Conduit for DV and HD keying on an Intel Mac Pro and it’s terrific! DV Matte Pro, is good from what I hear, but Conduit can give you a lot more fine tuning capabilities. Try it out! 🙂

Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC

“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”

Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
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[Ben Scott]

conduit sounds like a fantastic plugin that give you real time keys plus they have a lot of great video tutorials on how to use it

it is giving you nodal compositing in motion

if you want free i have tried the primatte keyer in motion, take down the noise spill supressor and other paramter and then refine matte desity a tiny bit

then use a levels command and set to alpha and get contrasty alpha channel

then try a blur on the alpha channel if needed

then use a colour corrector to despill

if you have crap footage and it is dv then you need to be pretty brutal to the edge

if it is just bad contrast then try multiple keyers and use the mask tool in motion (its easy to keyframe with the record button)

also make sure you have progressive footage if you need to use compressor to get you there