Hawaiki Keyer 5 - the industry’s most sophisticated Green & Blue Screen Keyer now with AI tracking

Hawaiki Keyer 5 builds on the best-in-class keying tools of Hawaiki Keyer 4 and enables you to use them more efficiently with even more powerful and intelligent tools for isolating your foreground.

It's easier than ever to maintain hair and other fine detail by creating secondary keys and dynamic garbage mattes with the new AI-powered face & object tracking and the new realtime edge tracking. And the new Crop tools allow you to exclude the edges of the screen and speed up the rendering of complex keys.

Refining your composite is faster and simpler with all the edge tools that were in a separate plug-in now integrated into Hawaiki Keyer. And we've expanded the compositing toolset with even more edge operations and the ability to resize and composite the background within the plug-in.

On top of this we've refined the UI and operation of the plug-in and optimized it for Apple silicon and HDR.

"For my money, these new features along with the depth of the adjustments available make Hawaiki Keyer 5 the best green/blue-screen keyer plug-in on the market."  Oliver Peters - digitalfilms

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• Hawaiki Keyer 5 can be found in the Resolve Effects Library, Final Cut Pro Effects Browser, the Effects and Preset panel and Effect menu in After Effects, in Premiere Pro within the Effects panel / Video Effects and in the Motion Library tab under Filters. Simply drag it onto your clip to get started.

• The plug-in comes complete with two separate Keying modules, Hawaiki Keyer 5 (Green) and Hawaiki Keyer 5 (Blue). Select whichever is appropriate for your background color: so for green screens select Hawaiki Keyer Green and for blue screens choose Hawaiki Keyer Blue. The operation of both versions is identical but each has been optimised for its respective screen color. For this reason not all the controls work precisely the same between the two modules.
  
  


• Hawaiki Comp Tools and Hawaiki Slice can be used with either green or blue screens.
  
  
• Check out the Manual for more details.

• Hawaiki Keyer 5 is a new product so doesn't overwrite your existing Hawaiki Keyer plug-ins.
  
  
• You can install Hawaiki Keyer 5 while continuing to use any older versions.


• Current users of Hawaiki Keyer are eligible for a 50% discount on the full price.


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macOS: macOS 14.7 Sonoma +, macOS 15 Sequoia +, macOS 26 Tahoe

FxFactory: 8.0.27 +

Apps: DaVincei Resolve 20 +,  Final Cut Pro 10.6 +,  Motion 5.6 +,  Premiere Pro 22 +,  After Effects 22 +

• Hawaiki Keyer 5 features advanced GPU acceleration for blazingly-fast performance both for real-time playback and rendering speed.


• Hawaiki Keyer's powerful and versatile matte extraction tools include a unique set of easily understood operations to tackle even the trickiest keying problems with perfect finesse and resolve exceptional edge detail.


• The automatic keying algorithm does most of the heavy lifting for you - clearing the backing and preserving edges while also giving those who need it more fine-grained control. In short, faster results and better edges, more easily..


• You can finesse your mattes even further with the Secondary keyer, which gives you two keyers in one. Mask between the Primary and Secondary mattes and automatically track the position of the mask using the powerful realtime tracking options.


• Hawaiki Keyer 5 offers an outstanding feature set for spill suppression, a powerful and unique edge control system, and a great-looking Light Wrap option, as well as several VFX-level edge control features: Background Match, Edge Replace, Fine Edge, Edge Blend and Premultiply.


• Hawaiki Keyer 5 includes Screen Clean - a sophisticated screen correction function that intelligently analyses the green or blue screen backing to remove defects and create an even screen making most keys a lot easier to pull.


• The new Crop operation, an optional hard Outer Matte and a versatile Matte Cleaner option facilitate pulling a great solid matte without sacrificing the edges of your key.


• An extensive set of view modes, including a precise Analysis mode, that make it easy to extract the perfect matte, while the Spill Map view makes for really precise and detailed spill suppression. Additional views allow you to monitor Hawaiki Keyer's sophisticated edge control operations.


• Finally, Hawaiki Keyer 5 offers a full color correction section to provide high quality, accurate grading of the final key, as well as a White Balance option for correcting either foreground or matte or both.

Hawaiki Keyer 5 is available through FxFactory.

Download FxFactory to install Hawaiki Keyer 5.