Ultimatte

What is Ultimatte? The Ultimatte is the predominant chromakeyer in the industry for good reason. The unparalleled chromakeying capabilities of the Ultimatte make traditionally hard to chromakey objects like hair, fur, smoke, glass, and semitransparent cloth easy to chromakey. Spill suppression is another reason for Ultimatte's success, it can remove the colored light that bounces of the Chromakey Backdrops and onto the talents shoulders and hair. Ultimatte has both live and post production chroma keyers; The Ultimatte 9, the Ultimatte 10, and the Ultimatte 400 for live, and AdvantEdge for post production.

 Chromakey

Sometimes Chromakeying is referred to as an art, because getting a seamless composite is less like a science and more like cooking; you need the right tools, the right ingredients, some imagination, and a lot of elbow grease. Ultimatte helps make your chromakey composites more realistic and many times easier than other chromakeyers. Traditionally the best way to chroma key is to light the background and the subject separately, this means that the backdrop gets a relatively even coverage of lighting, usually fluorescent, because most chromakeyers are susceptible to lighting variations and will give an uneven key. The talent is then lit to try and simulate the lighting environment of the virtual set. This can be difficult if the set is dim because of the immense amount of light usually required to get an even key on the background and further exacerbated by the fact that the more light you put on the background, the more spill you get onto the talent's head and shoulders. An Ultimatte will fix up the spill, but not all keyers have this feature so special care must be taken when doing traditional chroma key lighting for virtual sets.