Ultimatte AdvantEdge
Now you can combine multiple frame images in just
minutes on a Windows-based PC. Fine hair detail,
water, shadows, smoke, glass and reflections, even
blurred edges -- all composited flawlessly and automatically
with Ultimatte AdvantEdge!
All of our plug-ins offer an unparalleled method
of combining multi-frame images to produce a composited
sequence of images. They allow you to achieve realistic
looking composited scenes with the same Academy-Award
winning technology that has made Ultimatte famous.
Ultimatte AdvantEdge lets your produce professional-quality
composites right on your desktop.
- Platform protection - AdvantEdge users get twice
the flexibility because it comes ready to go to
work on Windows NT/2000/XP, Mac OS 9/OS X, and
Red Hat Linux for the one low price.
- Stylish user interface with automated controls.
The user interface has been designed to automate
the control settings by easily sampling different
parts of the image or matte with a simple eyedropper
cursor. Once a sample has been taken the software
automatically sets multiple controls to find the
best adjustment.
- Fully-linear mask - Eliminates hard edges -
fine detail, blurred images, transparencies and
shadows visible in the foreground image will all
reproduce in the final composite.
- Video Correction - AdvantEdge is the world’s
first matte generation tool with video correction
filtering (VCF) for the 4:1:1, 4:2:0, and even
4:2:2 digital video formats. VCF restores the
lost color information in compressed video formats
and greatly reduces the blocky artifacts found
in most blue/greenscreen composites using DV footage.
- Advanced Spill Suppression and Clean Up controls
- Automatically removes discoloration of foreground
subjects caused by light reflecting from the blue
or green stage. Removing excessive backing color
spill from the foreground subject has been automated
by sampling the contaminated area with the eyedropper
cursor and watching AdvantEdge wash away the spill.
Also Matte Clean Up now has individual controls
for softening and shrinking the matte.
- Roto Screen Correction - A revolutionary method
for making poorly shot footage usable by automatically
creating an articulate roto-mask to isolate the
foreground without the tedious and labor intensive
work of traditional rotoscoping.
- Smart Matte Sizing - A totally new approach
to computing the matte density without allowing
the matte to become over dense. Over dense mattes
are the most common mistake made in creating traveling
mattes. With Smart Matte Sizing it is virtually
impossible to over dense the matte.
- Color Conformance - Matches the look of the
foreground to the background for absolute realism.
- External matte - Allows overlaying an externally-generated
mask to "extend" the blue or green screen
so that wide-angle and long shots can be composited
even though they overshoot the screen.
PLUG-INS for Windows NT/2000/XP Professional (includes
plug-ins for all of the following host applications
in the same package)
