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Pick your primary Color, but – before releasing the mouse button – slide the eyedropper around to
different parts the background. Watch the monitor as you do so to see how the area of transparency is
affected by different Color choices. Release the mouse when you find the color that produces maximum
results. It’s often preferable to pick an ‘average’ color from a location fairly close to the boundary between
the background and foreground regions.
Now you can start to ramp up Tolerance. Bring it up slowly until most of the background color has been
eliminated, cutting away most of the background to within a few pixels of the foreground/background
boundary. Now raise Smoothness to fine tune that edge region, and you’re nearly done.
Before considering your settings final, make sure to test the result using a moving source. This will
sometimes reveal that overly aggressive settings cause small ‘blocks’ of pixels in the edge region to appear
to snap on and off during motion - as they either qualify or disqualify for inclusion in the resulting matte.
(A little reduction in Tolerance and increase in Smoothness will usually resolve this problem.)
Hint: It can be useful to zoom in using Position controls when fine tuning LiveMatte.
THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS
DEVELOPER NETWORK
The NewTek Developer Network comprises a large and ever-growing ecosystem of companies and
products. Many world-class organizations have developed applications and systems with support for
NewTek’s live production systems.
In particular, there is a great variety of solutions for specific needs that take advantage of 3Play’s NDI
support (as well as the Macro and automation features). Refer to the webpage at
www.newtek.com/solutions/newtek-developer-network.html for the latest details of solutions that can
facilitate and expand your own particular workflow.
15.3 CONFIGURATION
Each DSK layer has its own settings, accessed in the Network Input Configuration panel. Click the gear
gadget at right beside the Source menu for either DSK channel to open this panel.
DSK settings are organized into several groups from top to bottom as follows:
1. Fade
2. Position
3. Edges
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