Advantages of the Zbig Process
Intelligent use of the unavoidable spill
One key idea of the Zbig chroma key process is to interpret spill as valuable additional information for the compositing from background and foreground. Spill reflects the natural spreading of light and reflexes. Zbig perfectly replaces spill by simulated reflections from the new background.
Zbig intelligently combines information from foreground and background images to create convincing composites. Reflections from the new background onto foreground objects are automatically applied by the Zbig process. This results in "invisible" composites.
Easy to learn yet flexible for the advanced user
The final goal is to make chromakeying absolutely easy and transparent to the user yet giving full control to the advanced professional.
The automatic default setup, derived from a set of image parameters, gives you a good start which is sufficient in most cases. Save valuable time and avoid much of the pain of the beginner.
The advanced professional may want to gain additional artistical influence on the composite. Furthermore chromakeying is not always easy. Especially if the artist has to generate convincing output from material taken under bad conditions with imperfect lighting and camera setup.
To fulfil both needs, Zbig offers:
- automatic setup - takes you in access close to a perfect composite
- intuitive tune picker to build masks interactively for any blue or greenscreen
- intelligent spill replacement
- matches the characteristics of any background footage automatically
- multiple internal masks permit shadow adjustment while relieving of screen correction or grain removal
- cool built-in visual tools for simple and intuitive fine adjustments
- full control over each aspect of compositing
- convincing and "invisible" composites
- convenient set of color correction tools
- flexible design to cope with imperfect or even bad bluescreen footage
Unmatched Characteristics
- Preservation of finest details and edges
- Seamless embedding of foreground into given surroundings
- Natural and healthy looking skin tones
- The full quality of the background image remains even after multi-layer processing
- Screen color independence
