What video editors support chroma keying?

[lgh529]

I've been using Vegas Video for my video editing and it does almost everything that I need, except chroma keying. What editors out there support this besides Premier?

Is there an avisynth filter for this?

Thanks for any help.

[The village idiot]

Edit studio from pure motion.

Are you sure Vegas does not support chroma key? I don't use it so I can't help figure it out. Just that chroma key is such a lowly effect now adays, that I seems like most everyone would offer it.

[solarfox]

ULead Media Studio Pro also supports chromakeying.

[dcsos]

SonicFoundry supports CHROMA KEYING better than PREMIERE with 4.0

[mkelley]

Depends on how good you want your keying to look.

If you aren't critical (that is, you don't mind edge problems and/or won't be doing any transparency and/or wispy hair type stuff) just about any keyer will do. If you need something better, though, you can't beat doing this stuff in After Effects with a plugin like Primatte.

While somewhat expensive, it's probably half the cost (or less) of any other professional keying solution, and just as good as anything the pros use. Indeed, a lot of pros do use it (we use Ultimatte, a more expensive product, but it doesn't do any better job and takes longer -- I'm going to build our next keying solution around Primatte when I Get Around To It). If you don't own AE the whole package (with Primatte) will cost you around $1K, but you will never suffer any limitations.

Some folks also like the Production Bundle of After Effects, which does come with a high end keyer, but while we have it I find it a royal PITA. Indeed, it's one reason I'm considering getting Primatte just for fun.

Here's a link:

http://www.photron.com/primatte/products/video/primatte_video_main.html

[housepig]

in the Vegas manual, check page 200 - instructions on chroma keying.

what version of Vegas are you using? I'm using VV4 - I don't know if earlier versions had this.

[lgh529]

Thanks for all your help. I'm not at home so I can't look at the version of Vegas that I have, but the documentation says that it is not supported, at least in the version that I have.

Maybe time to upgrade.

[housepig]

might be... I tried Vegas 3, and it was good, but it didn't blow me away like version 4 does.