Chrominator seems pretty cool - Demo now avalible

shogo wrote on 1/23/2004, 6:10 PM

I just downloaded the Chrominator demo and it seems pretty damn good!
I have had it all of about 10 minutes and was able to produce alot better results than Vegas, Combustion and a demo I had of AE. with the same footage that I was using in these before. I love the spill supresssion it works wonders. I think this will be a buy for me as I was looking at Ultrakey but it was $800 dollars and they still don't have a demo of it that's alot of money for something you can't even try. This thing only cost's $90.00 Very reasonable for what it does. Like I said I have only had it for 10 minutes and was able to produce some awesome results.

The link is here

I love this hyperlinking stuff!

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filmy wrote on 1/23/2004, 11:48 PM

I just downloaded it and played with it for about 5 minutes...look like they are leaving a lot out in the demo? I clicked on "open" and got "Can't open with the demo" or something like that. Loaded up a file and looked at the options - I dunno if I will like this or not. Same type of interface as AlamV which I thought was clunky at first but grew to love, so who knows. I couldn't really get anything to matte out but it is almost 3 am and I am very tired. I don;t think it is as intuative as Premiere or Vegas are though. Will look more later. Glad the demo is out though. I wish Ultrakey would get their demo out.

shogo wrote on 1/24/2004, 2:48 AM

The interface is weird, when you click for instance color difference key it automatically applies it but if you do play with it it seemed to do a really good job. I agree I don't care much for the interface Vegas'esque it is not but very effective. I wish ultrakey would release the demo as-well seems they are potentially losing lots of customers there is nothing that sells better in my mind then actually trying software before committing to a purchase. Especially such expensive software as it is.

BillyBoy wrote on 1/24/2004, 11:02 AM

I agree with you 100% David. I've reached a point where I can afford any software I want. Price isn't the issue. BUT, I flat out refuse to buy anything sight unseen. If they don't let you download a FULLY working sample, then they blew the sale with me before they even got their foot in the door. I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels this way. I flat out refuse to buy or even try software that's crippled so you can't test its features. That's so stupid its mind blowing.

An exception is Vegas and similar software that uses third party licensing to encode something. That's understandable. You still can test 99% of the features. But to download some demo and see half the options grayed out is so frustrating, its off my PC in five minutes.

mjroddy wrote on 1/24/2004, 4:17 PM

I am despirately trying to key a series of clips. I own Boris Red 3GL, so you'd think I'd be set. But I can't get a really top notch key out of it using the footage I shot using my JVC GY-DV500. I get a lot of stairstepping or mush.
But that's for another post (I don't want to hi-jack).
I tried Chromanator and found it fair, but not good, in my opinion. After reading the Help file (I couldn't figure it out without that help), I got a decent key. But the movement in the test clip really "pixelated." And for some reason, I could only get a 15 frame render (though it tells me I should be able to get a 30 frame render). The edges of my subject looked "torn" even though I played with the black and white levels pretty throughly. Either they had bad stairstepping or the tearring.
Based on my very limited experience, I'm not impressed with Chromanator.
I've got two projects (one that about 45 min. and the other that just under 2 hours) that use keying throught the entire project. Please pitty me for the upcomming rendertimes ;-) Nothing like shooting yourself in the leg.