Red Giant today shipped the latest version of its chromakey tool Primatte Keyer. Primatte Keyer V5.0 is available in a standalone version and is also included in the Red Giant Keying Suite. It's a $499 purchase, or $99 as an upgrade for existing users. (The full Keying Suite, which includes Red Giant's Key Correct and Warp tools, is $799.)
Version 5 adds a number of new tools and interface refinements. Auto Compute is now an easily accessible push-button function that uses an improved algorithm to automatically generate keys. Smart Sample uses foreground sampling and a histogram pass to analyze an image and pull better keys.

Two new view modes are designed to give compositors a better look at their work: Adjust Light evens out colors to make background selection and removal more accurate, and and the Hybrid Matte feature is meant to help users generate cleaner matte edges.

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