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

| Scope | Path (Shell Command) | Description | |-------|----------------------|-------------| | Current User | shell:start menu | Shortcuts appear only for the logged-in user. No admin rights required. | | All Users | shell:common start menu | Shortcuts appear for every user on the machine. Administrative privileges required. |

Abstract The Windows Start Menu serves as a central hub for launching applications, accessing system tools, and managing user workflows. While modern installation routines often handle shortcut creation automatically, many portable applications, legacy software, scripts, and frequently used folders require manual addition. This paper provides a comprehensive technical overview of the methods, best practices, and underlying mechanisms for adding shortcuts to the Start Menu, covering Windows 10 and Windows 11 environments. It aims to equip system administrators, power users, and IT support personnel with reliable techniques to customize and streamline the user interface efficiently. 1. Introduction The evolution of the Windows Start Menu from Windows 95 to Windows 11 has consistently preserved the concept of pinned and listed shortcuts. Unlike desktop shortcuts, which are transient and often cluttered, Start Menu shortcuts offer an organized, keyboard-navigable, and searchable interface. Proper management of these shortcuts reduces cognitive load, improves productivity, and ensures consistent access to critical tools. 2. Understanding the Underlying File System Locations Contrary to popular belief, the Start Menu is not a monolithic database but a reflection of two primary file system folders. Adding a shortcut effectively means placing a valid .lnk (shortcut) file into one of these directories.

• 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 +

Add Shortcut To Start Menu [best] Info

| Scope | Path (Shell Command) | Description | |-------|----------------------|-------------| | Current User | shell:start menu | Shortcuts appear only for the logged-in user. No admin rights required. | | All Users | shell:common start menu | Shortcuts appear for every user on the machine. Administrative privileges required. |

Abstract The Windows Start Menu serves as a central hub for launching applications, accessing system tools, and managing user workflows. While modern installation routines often handle shortcut creation automatically, many portable applications, legacy software, scripts, and frequently used folders require manual addition. This paper provides a comprehensive technical overview of the methods, best practices, and underlying mechanisms for adding shortcuts to the Start Menu, covering Windows 10 and Windows 11 environments. It aims to equip system administrators, power users, and IT support personnel with reliable techniques to customize and streamline the user interface efficiently. 1. Introduction The evolution of the Windows Start Menu from Windows 95 to Windows 11 has consistently preserved the concept of pinned and listed shortcuts. Unlike desktop shortcuts, which are transient and often cluttered, Start Menu shortcuts offer an organized, keyboard-navigable, and searchable interface. Proper management of these shortcuts reduces cognitive load, improves productivity, and ensures consistent access to critical tools. 2. Understanding the Underlying File System Locations Contrary to popular belief, the Start Menu is not a monolithic database but a reflection of two primary file system folders. Adding a shortcut effectively means placing a valid .lnk (shortcut) file into one of these directories. add shortcut to start menu

Hawaiki Keyer 5 is available through FxFactory.

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