The Japanese company M Soft has released a new tool that will revolutionize studio and broadcast recording. That tool is the Raybrid Keymaker, and it uses depth instead of color to key out backgrounds. Check out Johnnie’s conversation with them at Inter BEE 2019: M Soft Green screen Solution – Image Credit cinema5D What is the M Soft Raybrid Keymaker? The Keymaker is nothing more and nothing less than a camera accessory, an add-on that tremendously expands the capabilities of any camera you pair it with. While Canon is the official distributor of the M Soft Raybrid Keymaker, don’t let that put you off. This technology is promised to work with any camera. It is only capable of processing HD images at the moment, but there is no reason 4K won’t be in its future. The HD spec is necessary because of computational speed, not because of any insurmountable physical limitation. How it Works Here’s how it works: two distance sensors are mounted onto the front of the camera. The operator then sets the distance from the sensor to the background. Everything in front of that set point is separated from the background and sent through a processing pipeline where the edges are cleaned. Once the layers are cleaned and separated, you can choose to remove the background entirely, modify it, or add other objects into that 3D space. You can, for example, add a dinosaur between the subject and the background. A Quick History of Depth-Sensing Depth-sensing technology...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 25 November, 2019