KEYLIGHT for Avid DS | Release Notes

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Current Release Notes

The Release Notes for Keylight for DS can be found in Appendix A of the Keylight for Avid DS User Guide .

Historical Release Notes

• Keylight 2.2v3
• Keylight 2.2v2
• Keylight 2.2v1
• Keylight 2.1v1
• Keylight 2.0v1
• Keylight 1.0v8
• Keylight 1.0v7
• Keylight 1.0v5
• Keylight 1.0v4
• Keylight 1.0v3
• Keylight 1.0v2
• Keylight 1.0v1

Keylight 2.2v3

This is a maintenence release to fix a bug.

Release Date

4 November 2009

Requirements

1. Avid DS v10.2
2. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (5.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

1. BUG ID 9423 - the version number shown on the Help tab in Keylight 2.2v2 was incorrect. It showed 2.2v1 and should have been 2.2v2. The correct version of the software can be viewed in Windows by clicking Start > Settings > Control Panel and opening Add/Remove Software.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 2.2v2

This is a maintenence release to support Avid DS v10.2

Release Date

9 October 2009

Requirements

1. Avid DS v10.2
2. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (5.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

The Keylight plug-in has been rebuilt with the release SDK for Avid DS 10.2.

Fixed Bugs

1. BUG ID 765 - the Edge Correction softness parameter has been fixed.
2. BUG ID 7015 - the Outside mask softness parameter has been fixed.
3. BUG ID 7290 - 64-bit installers now default to DS 10.2 and not DS 10.
4. BUG ID 8567 - copyright dates are now correct.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 2.2v1

This is a maintenence release to support Avid DS v10.

Requirements

1. Avid DS v10
2. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (4.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

1. The Keylight pulldown menu on the Inside PPG has changed to "Add to Inside", "Remove from Inside" and "Reset Inside".
2. The Keylight pulldown menu on the Outside PPG has changed to "Add to Outside", "Remove from Outside" and "Reset Outside".

Fixed Bugs

1. EULA - BUG ID 6051 - the end user license agreement has been updated in the installer.
2. Debug - BUG ID 6056 - option panel reported the plug-ins as debug, even though they were not. This has been fixed.
3. Icons - BUG ID 6055 - old product icons have been updated.
4. FLEXlm - BUG ID 5085 - the C:\Program Files\The Foundry\FLEXlm directory was not created on installation of the software. This has been fixed.
5. RPDS - BUG ID 705 - a previous version was not looking in the correct license directory. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

1. The ability to undo parameters changes will occasionally fail. There is no workaround.

Keylight 2.1v1

This is a maintenence release to support 32 and 64 bit versions of Avid DS v8.0.

Requirements

1. Avid DS v8.0.
2. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (4.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

1. Support for 64 bit machines running Avid DS v8.0.
2. Support for keying 32bit images.
3. FLEXlm licensing.

Fixed Bugs

There are no fixed bugs.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

1. The ability to undo parameters changes will occasionally fail. There is no workaround.

Keylight 2.0v1

This is a major new release with many new features and improvements.
Note Keylight 2.0v1 for Avid|DS 7 supports 8bit colour space only.

Requirements

Avid|DS 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 only. Foundry License Manager.

New Features

1. Simpler controls for the main matte. The Foreground Bias colour picker has been replaced by a simple slider and the Balance and Gain controls have been replaced by one Screen Balance slider.
2. Better quality main key - semi-keyed reflections are less pixelated.
3. The ability to use a different bias control for calculating the alpha and the despill has opened up the range of shots possible using Keylight.
4. New and improved matte processing tools - grow & shrink, despot, rollback and clip levels.
5. Colour Correction PPG has been added. Includes controls for brightness, contrast, saturation, colour balance and colour suppression.
6. Edge Correction PPG has been added with controls to colour correct and suppress colour spill at the edges.
7. Render controls now includes the ability to view the Combined Matte.
8. Colour Differentiation added to inside matte to control the ranges of colours used to generate the matte.
9. There is a new 'Outside Matte' tool which allows you to exclude arbitrary ranges of foreground colours when creating the matte.
10. Licensing. The product name for Keylight in the license string has changed from CFT (computer film tools) to Keylight.
11. Documentation. An Online Help button is now included on the Help PPG page that launches this PDF User Guide.
12. Opacity of the foreground has been removed.
13. Colourspace selection has been removed.

Improvements

1. The 'Hold Matte' is now replaced by the 'Inside Matte' which allows you to include arbitrary ranges of foreground colours when creating the matte.
2. The Screen Balance is now set automatically to 50 when picking green screens.

Fixed Bugs

1. BUG 253, 262. Keylight failed to render correctly when keying field material and eroding the main matte. Rendering artifacts were produced. This has been fixed in Keylight 2.0v1.
2. BUG 188. Blurring the main matte after pulling a key in Keylight 1.0 would give a pixelated result around the blurred edge. This bug has been fixed in Keylight 2.0v1.
3. BUG 214. The Src Alpha tooltip was incorrect on Keylight 1.0. This has been fixed in Keylight 2.0v1.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

1. The ability to undo parameters changes will occasionally fail. There is no workaround.

Keylight 1.0v8

This is a maintenence release to support Avid|DS 6.0.

Requirements

Avid|DS 6.0 only. FlicServer 1.2, FlicView 1.0v4

New Features

1. An unpremultiply button has been added to Keylight to support changes made to DS 6.
2. .Dongle. Keylight 1.0v8 for DS 6.0 can be licensed to the Dongle ID or the System ID (Physical Address). Previous versions of Keylight will only lock to the System ID of the machine.

Improvements

There are no improvements.

Fixed Bugs

There are no fixed bugs.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 1.0v7

This is a maintenence release to fix some bugs and support Keylight 1.0 on Avid|DS 5.0.

Requirements

Avid|DS 3.0, 4.0, 4.01 or 5.0. Foundry License Server 1.2

New Features

1. Installation. The Keylight installer for Avid|DS 4 and above enables you to install the Foundry License Server software (version 1.2) on your machine at the same time as Keylight.
2. FlicView. This new licensing utility is shipped with all new releases of Tinder, Anvil and Keylight. Information about node locked licenses and floating licenses on the network is displayed. Licenses can be verified and installed using FlicView without editing the license file directly. Information about the licenses on your machine can be saved and emailed to The Foundry to assist support calls. FlicView completely replaces the Install License and Show ID utilities shipped with previous versions.

Improvements

1. Licenses on Avid|DS Remote Processing Stations have been simplfied. The license.flic file on the RP machine does not need to point to a specific machine. It can look on the local network for any valid machine serving licenses and use that. This requires Foundry License Server 1.2 to be installed.

Fixed Bugs

1. Hotfix license problems. If you installed Service Pack 6a followed by the Hotfix Security Rollup (Q299444i.exe) our ability to license our plug-ins would fail. (The Hotfix overwrote a dll we used which resulted in random System IDs being returned). Removing the Hotfix Security Rollup would fix the problem. However, Keylight 1.0v7 now licenses correctly to the System ID even with the Hotfix Security Rollup installed.
2. The check-boxes that indicate whether the sliders are ganged or not were not saved as part of the plug-in data. This has been fixed. Bug ID 187.

Known Bugs and Workaround

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 1.0v5

This is a maintenence release for Avid|DS 4.01 and is only available as a download.

Requirements

Avid|DS 4.0 and 4.01 including Avid|DS HD and RPS.

New Features

There are no new features.

Fixed Bugs

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

1. Installation. Keylight failed to detect DS 4.01 and no plug-ins were installed. This has been fixed and DS 4.01 will now be found if installed. However, if DS is not detected, Keylight will be installed to C;\Program Files\The Foundry anyway.
2. Displaying the System ID Number (Physical Address) using the Foundry utility System ID will return an incorrect number if using Windows 2000. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Keylight 1.0v4

This is a maintenence release for Avid|DS 4.0 and included on the Crocodile CD.

Requirements

Avid|DS 4.0 including Avid|DS HD and RPS.

New Features

Keylight now supports RPS (remote rendering)

Fixed Bugs

1. The documentation has been tidied up into an on-line PDF book format.
2. The orange unlicensed dots have been replaced by coloured dots.

Fixed Bugs

There are no fixed bugs.

Known Bugs and Workarounds

1. Displaying the System ID Number (Physical Address) using the Foundry utility System ID will return an incorrect number if using Windows 2000. To display the number, which is used to license the plug-ins, use ipconfig /all from a command shell.