Has Keylight made Primatte obsolete?

[Andrew Shanks]

Hey Bob,
Keylight is good and is usually my first port of call when pulling a key, but second choice is always Primatte, …as there are just some situations where Primatte seems to do a better job. Shake, as standard, has both Keylight and Primatte, …for just that reason. I am a compositor so I do a lot of keying in my day to day work, usually I will use a few different key passes (be it with the same keyer or various ones) to build a proceedural matte. If I was you I’d see how you go with Keylight, you’ll probably find it’ll work for most things you throw at it, …if the time comes that you have a problematic key that won’t pull, …download the demo of the latest version of primatte and give it a whirl, …if it works, upgrade, if it doesn’t, just work on doing a proceedural matte using keylight and the other keying tools After Effects has. Personally I have had real issues with v3 of primatte within After Effects 6.5, ..it simply doesn’t work for me, and as of yet i have had no reply from Red Giant about my issues, so I have ended up reverting to v1.6 (which works fine), …I’m in the middle of a job at the moment and so haven’t done the upgrade to AE7 (although its sitting here tempting me in its shiny new box), but I’m hoping that the newer version of primatte will work better with AE7 than it does with AE6.5.
Goodluck!!!

andrew

🙂

[Bob Cole]

[Andrew Shanks] “I have had real issues with v3 of primatte within After Effects 6.5”

Thanks Andrew — I will follow your advice. I thought the latest ver of Primatte was 2.1.