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An expanded key setup with two Delta Keyers, a Polygon and B-Spline
nodes for mattes, and a branch for color correction
Inspector
Key Tab View Mode
At the top of the Inspector is the View Mode menu. The default selection shows the final result.
You can change the view to see various intermediate stages of the keying process.
Pre Matte: Displays the output of the Pre Matte key.
Matte: Displays the Alpha of the key before being combined with solid and garbage
masks. When displaying the matte, set the viewer to show the Alpha channel.
Tuning Ranges: Displays a false color for Shadow, Midtone, and Highlight ranges of
the image. Shadows are in the red channel, Midtones are in the green channel, and
Highlights are in the blue channel.
Status: Displays information to indicate areas that are solid, transparent, or in
between. It also displays areas that have been affected by matte adjustments, such as
thresholding or erode/dilate and areas affected by the solid mask.
Intermediate Result: The untouched source image color channels combined with the
final matte. Optionally, combine this output with additional Delta Keyer nodes.
Final Result: The final keyed image with spill suppression, ready to merge
onto a scene.
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