if you are OK with spending more to get more, then the choice is between Boris FX $299 and BCC7 $599. this alone is worth the price of admission. For example, if the sky is blue and the grass is green, then there is blue reflection on top of the person and green reflection on the bottom and they instantly "fit" into the scene. What Light Wrap does is take the light from the background that you've keyed in and wraps it around the foreground subject enhancing the illusion that they are really in scene. In that list is what I consider to be the "secret sauce" of selling a good key and that's Light Wrap. What you get with Boris is a lot more control over the matte for doing very difficult keys (i.e, Alpha Process, Chroma Key, Composite Choker, Light Wrap, Linear Color Key, Linear Luma Key, Make Alpha Key, Matte Choker, Matte Cleanup, Motion Key, PixelChooser, TwoWayKey, & Wire Remover). So if you only want to spend $79 then NewBlue has a very respectable chroma keyer. Here is something to consider:īoris FX and BCC7 have way more keying tools than NewBlue FX but to be fair.
Since the time that question was asked on the COW, Boris has come out with Continuum Complete 7 for Vegas Pro 10 (I had answered that BCC wasn't available for Vegas because at the time it wasn't). I read some good things about both of them over at the Cow Vegas Forum