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CorridorKey 2.0

CorridorKey 2.0

2 hours ago

THE BEST KEYING TOOL
AVAILABLE TO ALL

Perfect keys are now one click away. CorridorKey 2.0 (CK2.0) removes the struggles of working with green and blue screens, solving even the hardest keys with one click - all while running locally in your VFX/editing program of choice. Resolve, Nuke, After Effects, Premiere, Blender - one purchase gets you EVERY plugin. NO SUBSCRIPTION.

Before: a performer in a rainbow wig, sheer veil and blue gloves, shot against a green screenAfter: the same performer keyed onto a rocky landscape under an orange-to-blue sky
Clown shot: show before or after keying
Corridor Digital

This is Corridor Digital’s first official plugin release. After the success of CorridorKey 1.0, we teamed up with Alê Alvaro (plugin development) and Zachary Harris (model design and training) to make CorridorKey accessible in every software package.

Buy once.
Key everywhere.

CorridorKey is ready for YOUR favorite software. CorridorKey is supported on Windows and NVIDIA GPUs.

R

DaVinci Resolve

N

Nuke

Ae

After Effects

Pr

Premiere Pro

Bl

Blender

  • Windows
  • Mac

Standalone app included

The CorridorKey 2.0 standalone app: a queue of green screen clips on the left, the keyed result of an actor in red armour over a checkerboard in the viewer, and the key settings on the right

The best tool for bulk shots. We built CorridorKey for the production of Son of a Dungeon, where over 400 VFX shots went through this app. See it in action when it premieres on November 7. Included in your purchase.

Production tested.
Professional output.

  • Native 4k (and higher!)
  • HDR support
  • Floating point color depth.
  • Eliminates flicker
  • Works on any color background
  • Runs on your machine

CorridorKey 2.0 is the de facto keying tool used internally at Corridor. We have not used another keying tool in over six months as nothing else comes close to our results with CK2.0.

Solve the “un-mixing” problem

CorridorKey does something no other tool does - it predicts the color of semi-transparent foreground objects, intelligently removing the background screen color. This gives you perfect motion blur, bokeh, and hair. And unlike other tools, CorridorKey 2.0 has time awareness, eliminating flicker and chattering mattes by analyzing the entire video, not just one frame.

Now even a wrinkled blanket and an iPhone can produce high-quality results.

Bubble wrap held up against a blue screen, the blue showing through the plastic
Raw shot
The bubble wrap on black with the blue screen colour taken out of it, only the plastic's own pale green left
Unmixed result (the blue showing through the transparency has been removed)
The semi-transparent bubble wrap over a grey checkerboard, the checker visible through it with no blue cast
Comped on checkerboard

Simple to use

Apply the node

Using CorridorKey is a one click process for most shots. You simply apply the plug-in and it will understand the difference between your background and your subject.

Process time awareness

For enhanced quality, you can run “time awareness” on a shot, which analyzes the whole video clip in order to more effectively separate the background from the foreground. This eliminates the chattering from issues like compression and noise, and it helps preserve ultra-fine details like hair.

Provide a hint

For full control over what’s included or excluded from your shot, simply provide a single black-and-white image or video.

Total artistic control

CorridorKey lets the artist dictate what to key, with easy to use AlphaHint inputs. Tracking markers, edges of the screen, and c-stands no longer require garbage masking. You can provide one rough guide frame, or a whole guide video, and CorridorKey understands what you want to keep.

An actor in a black hat and cape lunging in front of a green screen that covers only part of the frame, the studio, stands and a covered prop visible around it
The rough alpha hint for that shot: a white silhouette of the actor on black
The result: the actor keyed over a checkerboard, with the studio and the stands removed

Buy it once. Own it.

Corridor believes artists should be able to own their tools.

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$42.50per seat$85.00
5 to 24 seats · volume pricing · 25+ negotiated
Founder pricing per seat. Back to $85.00 on November 21.
  • ✓One license for the whole team: 5 to 24 seats, one machine per seat
  • ✓Reassign seats across the team anytime
  • ✓Central billing, one invoice
  • ✓Priority support channel
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One-time purchase · 2 machines · 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked

BETA Founder pricing is pre-applied at checkout, no code to remember. Optional code CK2BETA if you have it. Beta price offer runs through November 20. Code expires on its own.

Hardware Requirements:

  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 30 series or newer (recommended)
  • RTX 20 series (beta): works in our tests so far, still being validated
  • GPU memory: 4 GB for shots up to 1440p. 6 GB for 4K.
  • System: Windows 11, or Windows 10 22H2
  • Mac: M-series, macOS 14 or newer
  • AMD GPUs: planned
  • Linux: planned
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