The Foundry launch Keylight 2.0

Leading visual effects plug-ins developer, The Foundry, have announced the release of Keylight 2.0, an upgrade to their Academy Award winning blue/green screen keyer, originally developed by the Computer Film Company.
Especially powerful in dealing with reflections, semi-transparent areas and hair, Keylight 2.0 has been improved with simpler controls for the main matte, better quality key, better alpha processing, colour correction and a new 'outside matte' tool.
Keylight 2.0 provides completely independent 'inside and outside' keyers each with independent shrink and softness as well as separately fed garbage mattes if required.
The Improvements include; simpler controls for the main matte, a better quality main key, the ability to use a different bias factor for calculating alpha and despill and an 'outside matte' tool, which allows the operator to exclude arbitrary sets of colours from the foreground.
Tim Bolt, Pink House Post Production, said: "I think the big seller for me is the hue suppression, which is outstanding compared with the competition. There are several new tools to help with those difficult keys, such as despot and rollback of the matte, and colour correction of foreground and edge independently. With these new features K2 has all the tools built in to enable the user to tweak the key without having to use additional external matte tools."
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