VSK VIRTUAL STUDIO KIT

Keyer & billboards Field-tested

Window ▸ VSK Billboards & Keyer. Every control is per-billboard (each billboard gets its own material instance), so two cameras with different green screens key independently.

Billboard & Look-At

Select which billboard to tune, and its Look at mode: At Camera (default - always faces the taking camera), At Camera Plane (stays parallel, no perspective lean), or Off (holds placement). Look-At modes built 2026-07-26, awaiting studio verification.

Key color

R/G/B of the screen color with one-press Green Screen / Blue Screen buttons and a color picker.

Monitor

Diagnostic views: Comp (Final) · Matte · Input - tune the matte in Matte view, judge the result in Comp.

Clean plate

Capture the empty green screen once; the keyer then keys per-pixel against that plate instead of a single color - uneven lighting stops mattering. Re-sample when lighting changes.

Crop

The input crop trims rig, stands and stage edges outside the screen, with automatic recentering so the talent stays put. (A free-form garbage-matte mask is on the roadmap; crop covers the rectangular case.)

Matte controls

ControlDefaultDoes
Low Cut0Lifts near-black matte noise to full transparency.
High Cut0.3Pushes near-white matte to full opacity.
Threshold-Core key tolerance.
Edge Shrink0-5Chokes the matte edge inward.
Filter-Softens the matte edge.
Shadow Zone-Preserves real floor shadows in the lower zone.

Spill & edge

Despill R/Y and B/C (default 0.5 each) pull screen bounce off skin and hair; Edge Color Corr retints the matte edge; Light Wrap bleeds the virtual set’s light onto the talent’s silhouette.

Color correction

Per-channel R/G/B gain (0-2, default 1) to match the camera to the set. ↺ Reset This Billboard restores every keyer value (with confirmation).

Under the hood - the whole keyer is a single Custom HLSL node in VS_M_ChromaKey with 18 inputs, driven per-billboard through material instance parameters. Fast, and editable in one place.