combustion 4/Ultimatte

[jonhollis_vb]

Hi all
so far ive been blown away by C4. With automatic duck translating xml from FCP straight in its a better route than “send to shake” (which deosnt actually send a lot). Anyway my only problem has been getting good enough results out of the diamond keyer. Has anyone used the Ultimatte plug in is it worth the money?

thanks

jh

[Anonymous]

Look at the section ofTips/Tutorial have yips to extract good keyers in Combustion

[Anonymous]

ultimatt rules in combustion!!

[marios]

hi jon

Im a freelance Flame Artist in London, I have use Combustion 3 with Ultimatte Advantage on a feature film. I used it on footage that was shot green screen with a promist filter by mistake, so ofcourse all the skintones of the two characters in the scene were all washed with green and so was everything else in the scene, the footage was 10bit cineon’s.
The great thing about combustion and ultimate Advantage, is that u can combine all the other discreet keyer tools to get a great key, which i find difficult to do in flame with the ultimate spark(a few years ago , mabe improved now). The most difficult part of the comp was restoring the skintones of the character which Ultimatte is second to none, it work very well.

marios

[marios]

hi jon

Im a freelance Flame Artist, I have used Combustion 3 with Ultimatte Advantage on a feature film. I used it on footage that was shot green screen with a promist filter by mistake, so ofcourse all the skintones of the two characters in the scene were all washed with green and so was everything else in the scene, the footage was 10bit cineon’s.
The great thing about combustion and ultimatte Advantage, is that u can combine all the other discreet keyer tools to get a great key, which i find difficult to do in flame in batch with the ultimate spark (lack of ease of interactivity a few years ago , mabe improved now). The most difficult part of the comp was restoring the skintones of the character which Ultimatte is second to none, it work very well. There were some stability issues then but very bearable.

I tried keylight, MK u name it, they all failed

marios

[loops]

marios wrote:

footage that was shot green screen with a promist filter by mistake,

😯

Some mistake!

[marios]

tell me about it!, its a long story, about directors not listening to vfx supervisors… shit happens.,… btw i was not there.

[jonhollis_vb]

so basically you would recommend it – because i have a flame too and the diamond keyer doesnt seem to cut it as well as the master keyer or also the colour warper (from where it was derived). I am using 10bit HD footage and the green screen is good but i would love to be ablt to key it as well as the primatte or CFC keylight in shake does but in combustion – as shakes attempt at 3D compositing isnt very good at all.

jh

[jonhollis_vb]

but i must add – i think that combustion 4 is one of the best bots of software ive seen for a long time – with FCP as the front end and automatic duck in the middle its great. appart from the keying issues i have (which will probably get resolved with plugins – is keylight available for c4?) it is as good as my flame…… all for £800 eh!!

jh

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