Ultra Keyer

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Ultra Keyer

Posted by Peter O’neill on February 17, 2012 at 3:33 pm

Hi,
Wondering if PP 5 Ultra Keyer works for anyone? Working on Lion 10.7.2 with dual 30″ Dell’s. Heard that if your using dual monitors they must be same height and resolution, which mine are. Seems some posts I’ve read say the eyedropper is broke in some of PP 5 effects. True??? I have a job with lots of green screen material coming up soon. Wondering if the only fix would be upgrading to PP 5.5?

Thanks,

Thanks,
Peter O’Neill

Mac Pro ’08
2 x 3GB Quad Core Intel Xeon
14GB 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MB

Mac OS Lion 10.7.2

Steve Brame replied 14 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Kris Merkel
February 17, 2012 at 4:43 pm

The latest PPro update fixed the eyedropper issue. Make sure you have 5.5.2

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Peter O’neill
February 17, 2012 at 4:47 pm

Thanks Kris,
So, its completely broke in PP 5?

Thanks,
Peter O’Neill

Mac Pro ’08
2 x 3GB Quad Core Intel Xeon
14GB 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MB

Mac OS Lion 10.7.2
Kris Merkel
February 17, 2012 at 5:03 pm

I am not running 5, so someone else will have to answer that. It was broken in 5.5 on a mac with two displays of differing resolution, but the 5.5.2 update fixed the problem and now it works great.

“Think of everything in terms of building capacity.”

Kris Merkel
twitter @kris_merkel
Product Specialist, Flanders Scientific Inc.
http://www.shopfsi.com
Co-Founder, Atlanta Cutters Post Production User Group
http://www.atlantacutters.com

2.2Ghz MBP core i7
16Gb RAM
CS 5.5
FCP7 and Studio
Blackmagic Design UltraStudio 3D
AJA IO XT
FSI LM-2340W
2TB Max Digital Pro Edit2 VR
1TB LaCie Thunderbolt
1TB CalDigit FW VR
2TB LaCie Big disk
Steve Brame
February 19, 2012 at 2:43 am

I have been using Ultra Keyer since the old days before Adobe purchased it’s creator company, Serious Magic, back then it was simply ‘Ultra’. The version integrated with Premiere lacks some of the original functionality that the original had, but I’ve been told that they are going to reintroduce it in the future if possible.

That being said, I still love it. It’s our ‘go to’ keyer these days unless we happen to really blow it when shooting the material and need to be able to create a ‘super-tight junk matte’ as explained here in a tutorial. Even then, we’ve had some green screen shots that we had a hell of a time getting keyed well in Keylight, while Ultra Key was able to handle it with ease. It has also proved to be a real time saver being able to key directly in Premiere.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

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