The Foundry has announced the release of Keylight for Autodesk's Combustion and Adobe's After Effects Standard Edition desktop software. Keylight is already available on a range of platforms including Autodesk's inferno, flame, flint, fire and smoke systems, as well as Shake, Avid DS and the Professional version of Adobe After Effects. The new release extends this popular keying technology to the global After Effects and Combustion communities, delivering a powerful new toolset for the creation of quality visual effects.
Keylight is an Academy Award-winning blue and green screen keyer. It has been used on many feature films including: King Kong, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Harry Potter series, Mission Impossible, Resident Evil, Sleepy Hollow, Chicken Run, The Truman Show, Armageddon and more.

Keylight features include:

  • Outside matte input to manage shots with uneven light;
  • Inside matte input to aid the prevention of print through and to help maintain the true colors of the source image;
  • Advanced integrated spill management;
  • Separate color correction, suppression and edge correction tools for fine-tuning;
  • Substantial matte processing tools for refining mattes;
  • Extensive viewing capabilities for rapid troubleshooting;
  • Built-in controls for blurring chrominance, helping to pull cleaner keys from compressed footage;
  • 8 and 16-bit image support; and
  • A PDF user guide complete with tutorials.
Keylight is now shipping for Adobe After Effects 7.0 Standard Edition and Windows versions of Combustion. Nodelocked licenses are available for US$395.00 / UK £210.00 and floating licenses can be purchased for US$592.50 / UK £315.00.

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