KEYLIGHT for Autodesk Release Notes

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Keylight 2.2v2

This is a maintenance release of Keylight that fixes a bug and removes licensing from the Burn spark.

Requirements

Flare, Flame, Flint, Inferno, Smoke and Burn
Tested on Flare running on Centos 5.3 (64bit) and Flame 2010 SP3 running on Centos 4.3 (64bit) (equavalent to RHEL 4.3) .

Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) 5.0v1 or later for floating license support.

Release Date

5 January 2009

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Other Changes

Licensing has been removed from the Burn version of the software which is now provided free to the end user.

Fixed Bugs

BUG ID 6830 - using the "Screen Softness" parameter made the foreground image disappear. This has been fixed in Keylight 2.2v1.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 2.1v1

This is a minor upgrade to Keylight 2.0v1 to enable it to use FLEXlm licensing.

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Inferno, Smoke and Burn. Tested on Flame 2009. Builds for other versions of Flame are available on our software archive. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) 5.0v1 or later for floating license support.

Release Date

2 December 2008

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

Keylight now uses FLEXlm licensing.

Fixed Bugs

There are no fixed bugs.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 2.0v1

This is a major new release of Keylight to incorporate improvements made to the algorithm over the years and support linux, burn and 64 bit applications.

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno, Smoke and Burn. Autodesk Flame 8.5, 9.5 on Irix, Autodesk Flint 9.0 on Linux 32 have been qualified although earlier and later versions are also likely to work. FLM 3.1 licensing used.

Release Date

November 2005.

New Features

  1. The matte input has been replaced with an Inside Matte and Outside Matte.
  2. The FG Bias has been decoupled into a Despill Bias and Alpha Bias. The Despill Bias can now despill without affecting the screen alpha.
  3. The html documentation has been replaced with this comprehensive pdf user guide.
  4. The built-in holdout matte has been removed and replaced with an inside matte input to make a more streamlined plug-in for use in Batch.
  5. A preblur parameter has been added to help with keying DV footage or excessively noisy images.
  6. Support for field rendering has been added.
  7. New display tools are included to allow for the selection of parameter values based on rendered images.

Improvements

  1. The screen matte processing tools have been improved with rollback and despot controls.
  2. Tooltips are now included.

Changes

  1. The colour correction controls have been removed.
  2. The built-in holdout matte has been removed.
  3. The video/log/linear control has been removed.
  4. The product identifier in the license key has changed from CFT to Keylight.

Fixed Bugs

There are no fixed bugs.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 1.1v2

This is a maintenance release with some bug fixes.

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno and Smoke. Foundry License Manager.

Warning!

Burn and Autodesk Linux is not supported.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. If Keylight was reloaded from a saved setup file the pixels defining the Hold Matte would be incorrect. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 1.1v1

This is a maintenence release.

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno and Smoke. Foundry License Manager.

New Features

  1. Status. A new output mode has been added to enable users to better see the areas of the image that will become foreground and background. Black pixels represent pure background. blue pixels represent pure foreground, green pixels are a blend of foreground and background, red pixels are pure background with foreground reflections added on top.
  2. Suppress Reflections. A toggle switch will remove the foreground reflections that are added back on to the background. There are some situations whwere reflections are not important and foreground grain is being added to the background. This can be removed with this switch.

Improvements

There are no improvements.

Fixed Bugs

There are no fixed bugs.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 1.0v1

This is the first release of Keylight on Autodesk.

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno and Smoke. Foundry License Manager.

New Features

Not applicable.

Improvements

Not applicable.

Fixed Bugs

Not applicable.

Known Bugs and Workaround

There are no known bugs.