Ultimatte's new bluescreen compositing engine. (compositing).(Ultimatte 10)(Brief Article)

Ultimatte Corp. has been developing bluescreen and greenscreen compositing technology for more than a quarter-century. The company's latest hardware device, the Ultimatte 10, incorporates a new matte engine that can composite finely detailed foreground features such as wisps of hair or rings of cigarette smoke while automatically suppressing foreground spill that would lead to a "cut-out" appearance against the background. Imagery such as motion blur and shadows can also be preserved.

The Ultimatte 10 is the first hardware product to incorporate Ultimatte's proprietary AdvantEdge algorithms, introduced in software earlier this year. "The watershed event is this new way of calculating the matte signals," says Reid Baker, ...