Blackmagic Design Ultimatte 12 HD Keyer and Advanced Compositing Processor

Blackmagic Design Ultimatte 12 HD Keyer and Advanced Compositing Processor

Ultimatte 12 HD is an advanced real-time compositing processor designed for keying live-action video with next-generation broadcast graphics, virtual sets, and more. The Blackmagic Design Ultimatte 12 HD Keyer or Advanced Compositing Processor features new algorithms and color science, incredible edge handling and color separation, amazing color fidelity, and better spill suppression than ever before. The high-performance 3G-SDI design gives you the power to work in HD with sub-pixel processing for an amazing image.

Generate Live Virtual Environments for Broadcast

Whether you’re working in broadcast news, sports, film production, or magazine-style entertainment programming, Ultimatte 12 HD has the quality for incredibly life-like composites that place your talent into any scene. Plus the new Ultimatte 12 HD includes built-in frame stores so you don't need live video sources for all inputs. You can also use Ultimatte 12 to layer computer-generated augmented reality foreground objects into a scene, complete with realistic transparency that your talent can walk behind. Ultimatte 12 is also perfect for on-set pre-visualization in film production because it lets actors and directors watch the scene while shooting.

Create Realistic Fixed Camera Virtual Sets

Now you can create a massive broadcast set, even in small apartments or a basement. That's because Ultimatte 12 HD has frame stores so you can load pre-rendered still frames from a 3D-modeled broadcast set. This is a revolution in live production because you can now use a virtual set even if you don't have the space for a physical broadcast set. Plus without any external equipment. Just use multiple cameras, each with an Ultimatte 12 and a background frame loaded. As the backgrounds are pre-rendered, they can be more photorealistic than a traditional virtual set. If the cameras don't move, the backgrounds will look perfect. Plus Ultimatte 12 is low cost, so you can use more cameras.

Ultimatte 12 HD

The world's most advanced chroma keyer in an affordable HD model. Full Ultimatte 12 quality processing gives you next-generation edge handling, amazing color separation, and better spill suppression.

New Algorithms and Expanded Color Space

The Ultimatte 12 HD, even Ultimatte 12 HD Mini, have the same incredibly advanced image processing algorithms and a huge internal color space. The processing automatically generates internal mattes so different parts of the image are processed separately based on the colors in each area. It’s like having the power of multiple Ultimatte keyers all working together on the same image. You get fine-edged detail where it’s needed the most, like on hair, and smoother transitions between colors or other objects in the scene. Everything is handled by new math and sub-pixel processing designed for incredible quality and clarity.

Automatic Scene Analysis for One Touch Keying

When it comes to live production, you need to work fast. Ultimatte 12 features one-touch keying technology that analyzes a scene and automatically sets over 100 parameters so you get great keys without having to do a lot of extra work. The first step is to ensure your scene is well-lit and that the cameras are properly white balanced, then you simply activate the auto key and Ultimatte will do all the work for you. Ultimatte 12 HD includes Screen Correction to compensate for unevenly lit green/blue screens. One-touch keying is dramatically faster and helps you accurately pull a key with minimum effort. That leaves you free to focus on the program, while Ultimatte 12 takes care of the rest.

Add Translucent Layers and Broadcast Graphics

Adding additional translucent objects, such as colored or tinted glass and computer graphics, is virtually impossible with a traditional keyer. That’s because you can’t subtract a blue or green screen out of a semi-transparent colored object without changing the object’s original color. Now, with Ultimatte 12, you get a revolutionary new layer compositing mode that lets you add tinted objects on top of the foreground image. That allows a whole new generation of realistic translucent glass looks in broadcast graphics. This means that when you look through the object, or your talent walks behind it, the tinted colors are accurately preserved, making the shot look completely realistic.