PRIMATTE V5 ANNOUNCED!!

Primatte V5 has been released for Autodesk IFFFS products and coming soon to AVID DS. OEM licensees have also received the new library and will soon have it integrated into their products as soon as schedules allow.

The three new features in Primatte V5 are quite revolutionary and we think will make keying with Primatte easier and faster than other products on the market. Here is a brief description of the new features and we encourage you to download the plug-in and give it a try at your facility.

The new Adjust Lighting feature automatically detects the backing screen color and then uses it to generate a ‘virtual’ or ‘artificially generated’ backing screen to use in the keying operation. This solves the problem of having to key unevenly lit or backing screens with different shades of a specific color.

The new Foreground Detection feature truly makes Primatte V5 an almost one-step operation. Using newly developed algorithms, Primatte V5 can easily differentiate the foreground objects from the backing screen and deliver an almost perfect key with a single click of the mouse or pen. No more transparent areas on the foreground object that have to be dealt with in additional operations.

The new Hybrid Mode uses a technique often used by compositing artists when the foreground object has a color in it that is close to the backing screen color. These areas usually become transparent in the keying process and have to be dealt with in separate operations. Hybrid Mode performs this operation from within the Primatte plug-in by making a second key with the similar colored areas made opaque and then shrunk down and composited over the original key. This should solve many time-consuming operations compositing artists current have to deal with.

Take a look at it and give it a try. We think you will be impressed.

PRIMATTE for Autodesk sparks now uses Reprise License Manager (RLM) instead of FlexNet.

PHOTRON USA, Inc., would like to announce that the floating license issues with Autodesk Flame 2010 (and newer) has been resolved by switching to the Reprise License Manager system. Any users having this problem can now upgrade to the latest version of sparkPrimatte and get a new license that will make sparkPrimatte ‘float’ again.