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Subject: Re: Ultimatte style keying
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>This really isn't an answer, but I just thought of something... I saw the
>Ultimatte system in operation at NAB, where instead of a straight clip, the
>system generated a _transparency map_ (or alpha image, if you must be
>technical!) to use as a key. Something like this could easily be written as a
>plug-in, and maybe even license the keying algorithm from Ultimatte
>themselves...
>
Alan, I think you have this backwards. Generating the transparency
map is the hard part, the keying is the easy part.