[QuadList] Grass Valley

[C. Park Seward]

Hi Chris,

Kinda of. Some of the patented processes were licensed but not the entire process. A chroma keyer is not an Ultimatte. As you know, the Ultimatte uses a color-difference method that is very different from a chroma keyer.

Some sophisticated linear chroma keyers claim to be able to reproduce transparent objects and shadows cast on the backing while at the same time removing blue spill from the foreground subject. In practice, however, they cannot create a composite that is as realistic as an Ultimatte composite in many situations. Smoke, reflections, out of focus objects and extremely fine hair detail will not look as good in a composite made by a linear chroma keyer. Shades of blue will be difficult to hold in the foreground and will turn gray in a chroma key composite while they can be held and accurately reproduced by an Ultimatte.

Take a look at this page of the control panel:

http://www.ultimatte.com/UltimatteMain/SR2_Main.html

Without those handles, you can't get the "Ultimatte look". 

I don't know how many times the readers here have used the Ultimate for real paying clients, but I've used the Ultimatte HD to composite Johnny Depp and Matt Lauer and Al Roker of the "Today Show". I know a good composite.

The demo I saw at Grass was of a tape that was very yellow, perhaps trying to mask the blue spill. The white balance was way off.

Best,
Park

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On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:

> The Chroma Keyer was licensed from Ultimatte.  I think it was the automatic setup that was the most fantastic part.  Then a few touch up tweaks for the perfectionist.
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> Chris Hill
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> On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:03 AM, David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com> wrote:
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>> Chris,
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>> Agreed. The 4000 chroma keyer and assorted adjustable parameters to the key worked very well, comparable to the Ultimatte.
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>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:
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>>>  
>>> The Chroma Keyers in the digital switchers was licensed and when did a beautiful job.  I saw a test that a Post House did in the Chicago area and they showed me the tapes of all the Chroma Keyers from all the switchers.  GVG beat them all and we sold a 1000 for that use.
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