Utlimatte AdvantEdge

[Darby Edelen]

Is there any chance I could get you to post a sample troublesome frame? =)

[Rich Ramazinski]

I’ve had good experience with Ultimatte 2.2 in AE 6.5; never used it with 7 though.

The thing I loved about it was that you could import a plate (or build one out of photoshop and existing frames), and it would create a very intelligent difference matte for you- useful when there’s a lot of consistent shadows/bright spots in your keying area.

on the bad side was that the plug-in would try to pop you into a seperate user interface to do all your tweaks.
Also, render time was kinda long.

http://www.ultimatte.com has a demo download, if you’d like to try it.

r

http://www.richrama.com

[Danny Princz]

i have this in my toolbox and use it as a last resort.

it is DOG SLOW,was quite buggy when i first purchased it, and doesnt have a render engine license (you had to pay another 1500 even if you just want to put it on a render node)

but when i cant get a good enough key with keylight, primatte, or zmatte, Advantage has worked.

try the demo. the interface takes a bit to get used to, but once you get past the initial learning curve it all starts to makes sense.

thats what great about demos. if it works for you when nothing else will…

who is that masked man…

[Danny Princz]

i am lucky enough that i am rarely supplied DV/HDV footage, so i dont have experience with this plugin, but have you tried dvmatte?

https://www.dvgarage.com/prod/prod.php?prod=dvmatteae

should be a demo there as well

who is that masked man…

[Galen Yeo]

larry

everything rendernyc says is on track. we have a copy of ultimate advantedge and dongle for sale – drop me a line here if the download works for you. it’s too complex for our needs and it’s been collecting dust on the shelf, so we’d be glad to let it go for much less than the new price!

cheers

g yeo
http://www.movingvisuals.com

[Larry Melton]

Thanks to all for your responses. I could post a frame of my scene, but I’m not having too much of a problem with any single frame – it’s the changes in the shot over time (moving camera) that make this more difficult.

Rendernyc, you mentioned Primatte – how does that compare in terms of performance and speed? Tmvc, I may be in touch after I check out the demo.
Thanks again everyone for taking the time to respond.

Larry Melton

[Solie Swan]

If you find that primatte works for you and you are on a mac you might want to buy shake – for $300 less than the price of the full AE plugin you can get a full license of shake which includes primatte and keylight. I think there is a 30 day shake demo available as well. BTW, we have UAE and I would echo what has been said – slow, overly complex, no significant work done on it in years and it is exprensive.

[Galen Yeo]

primatte works faster as i recall and another one we use is zmatte from http://www.digitalfilmtools.com. ultimatte is the most comprehensive toolset but is more complex.

[Danny Princz]

just saw this response… wish there were some better tracking on this forum….

yeah, primatte is fast and an excellent keyer. its first in my toolbox

[Ron Lindeboom]

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