Chroma Key

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Create precise keys with minimal adjustment!

Award-winning Chroma Key effects for After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Motion, and Vegas Pro 10

The Continuum Chroma Key Unit includes:

Chroma Key


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The Chroma Key is the start of the process of generating a convincing composite. Simply apply the key and tweak the density to refine the result and you are ready to move on to the next step.

Matte Choker


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The Matte Choker is the second step in key refinement. With this tool we are concentrating on the edges of the key. We tweak the blur, choke and softening along the edges of the key.

Light Wrap


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The Light Wrap is again an edge refinement stage. We basically instruct the filter to reflect the background image over the edges of the keyed foreground image.

Match Grain


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The Match Grain process samples the grain from the background and applies it to the foreground, helping to generate the appearance that the clips were shot on the same camera.

Color Match


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The final step in generating our keyed composite is the Color Match process. This is where we sample from the highlight, midtone and shadow regions in the foreground and background images and blend some of the background color and luma values into the foreground. This furthers the illusion that we are trying to generate, that of a seamless composite of the foreground and background elements.

BCS Chroma Key Studio

Exclusively for users of Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express we offer Chroma Key Studio, which is included in the Chroma Key Unit. This suite of keying tools includes the Chroma Key, Matte Choker and Light Wrap tools, which for this suite have been re-engineered to run in real-time - even on HD clips.

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