<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Chris,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); line-height: 11px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">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.</font></span></div><div><br></div><div>Take a look at this page of the control panel:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ultimatte.com/UltimatteMain/SR2_Main.html">http://www.ultimatte.com/UltimatteMain/SR2_Main.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Without those handles, you can't get the "Ultimatte look". </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><div>Best,</div><div>Park</div><div><br></div></div><div>C. 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<br><div><div>On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:48 AM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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.<br><br>Chris Hill</div><div><br>On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:03 AM, David Crosthwait <<a href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Chris,</div><div><br></div><div>Agreed. The 4000 chroma keyer and assorted adjustable parameters to the key worked very well, comparable to the Ultimatte.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br>David Crosthwait<br>DC Video<br><i>Preservation Level Videotape Digitization and More!</i><font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Clients welcomed at our offices located at:<br>177 West Magnolia Blvd.<br>Burbank, CA. 91502<br>818-563-1073<br>818-563-1177 (fax)<br>818-285-9942 (cell)</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br><a href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a><br><a href="http://dcvideo.com/">www.dcvideo.com</a><br>Follow DC Video on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo">https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo</a></font></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div>On Jul 9, 2012, at 6:05 AM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><font id="role_document" color="#000000"><br>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; ">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.</div>
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