Intelligent blue and green screen keying that is easy to use, yet provides the tools you need when presented with a challenging shot--including DV and HD de-artifacting, color suppression, matte manipulation, color correction, edge treatment and light wrapping.

zMatte is a full-featured keyer that is the result of our experience in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots — tools such as multiple matte creation, automatic spill suppression, sophisticated matte and edge manipulation, and color correction.

So, how does zMatte work? You tell it the type of color screen you are using and with a quick drag of the background and foreground sliders, you have a matte. If it looks good, you’re done. If not, there are tools to make it look right starting with DeArtifact controls, matte manipulators and spill suppression. DeArtifacting cleans up compression artifacts in DV and HD footage while blue or green spill can be removed separately from the foreground or its edge. For those really nasty blue and green screens, multiple mattes can be pulled and combined within zMatte and treated with Blur, Shrink and Wrap functions. Once the key is pulled, the foreground can be color matched to the background. You can then use Light Wrap to blend the foreground into the background by making the color of the background wrap into the foreground edges without completely losing the edge. To finish it off, there are tools to color correct, blur or mix only the edge of the key.

Simple matte extraction, de-artifacting, isolated color suppression, matte treatment, sophisticated color correction, light wrapping and edge tools are all you’ll need to make that perfect key.

• Create mattes from blue, green, any color screen
• Multiple matte creation
• Matte shrink, blur and wrap functions
• DV and HD deartifacting
• Sophisticated color correction and suppression
• Light wrapping
• Edge tools to color correct or blur only the edge
• Integrated DVE
• Screen smoothing for unevenly lit blue and green screens
• Effectively composite fire, explosions and smoke
• 8/16 bit processing

System Requirements

• 64-bit Only
• Media Composer 6.0 and Higher
• Symphony 6.0 and Higher
• NewsCutter 10.0 and Higher

zMatte includes the following filters to handle keying, matte generation and compositing: Color Suppress, DeArtifact, Edge Composite, Frame Averager, Holdout Composite, Keyer, Light Wrap, Matte Generator, Matte Repair, Matte Wrap and Screen Smoother.

Supported Software Language(s): English