v1.2.x Digital Anarchy Light Wrap Fantastic

A Great Plugin for Fantastic Composites

Easy compositing of green or blue screen images on a background

Light wrap simulates backlighting, making the compositing of two images look more realistic. Background light would normally affect the foreground in a real scene. Most green or blue screen footage looks ‘cut out’ when put on a different background because it lacks the same lighting as the background. The Light Wrap Fantastic makes it easier to eliminate the ‘cut out’ look.

LWF takes the background layer and ‘wraps’ it around the edge of the foreground, simulating backlighting. This makes for a more realistic green screen composite.

Control every aspect of the light wrap within one plugin

While it’s usually possible to create a light wrap effect within most host applications, it requires multiple layers, masks and effects. The Light Wrap Fantastic simplifies this by giving you complete control in one plugin. This includes being able to mask the effect from within the plugin to simulate light coming from one direction.

Works with any blue or green screen plugin

It doesn’t matter what blue/green screen keying plugin you use… Primatte, Keylight, Ultimatte… The Light Wrap Fantastic works great and will help you blend your foreground and background more realistically. If you’ve roto’d something with Mocha Pro or the like, LWF will make that look great too!

Fast Rendering using Your GPU

Fast rendering is essential to fitting into a your workflow. We use both CUDA and OpenCL to completely optimize the rendering for Nvidia and AMD GPUs.

Standalone Plugin that Fits Different Workflows

As a standalone plugin, it makes it much more affordable to get great green or blue screen composites! Since Light Wrap is so effective at improving composites, we wanted to make it available without needing to buy a whole keying package. Usually you end up paying for tools that already ship for free in your host application or that you don’t need. This way you get the most powerful light wrap plugin available at a great price!

Samples

Moving Backgrounds and Lights

In the below shot, we have a woman on a greenscreen and a still image of a train window with a mask cut out of the window showing footage shot from a moving train. Light Wrap benefits both the window and the woman. Both are lightened as the lights from the station move by, but are darkened when passing walls with no lights.

In the still image, note the glow on the woman’s head and the lightening of the window frame.

When moving at 30fps the effect is subtle but makes for a much more convincing shot than if it’s not used. The before and after are in the below video:

Moving Foreground

The next example uses a video for the background and wraps that around the woman as she walks. This isn’t as pronounced as the above examples, there’s no moving lights, but it still helps make her look like she’s part of the environment. Compositing is tricky and it’s often the small, subtle things that make for a great composite.

The Light Wrap Fantastic 1.0 runs in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, DaVinci Resolve and Avid Media Composer.

All Digital Anarchy products are kept up to date and run in the latest versions of the OS or host application.

– Windows 10

– Mac iOS High Sierra and later

Older builds may be available for Windows 7/8. If you are running an older version of Windows, please use this Request Form to check if a compatible version of the plugin is available.

What’s new in v1.2.x?

• adds compatibility with Mac OS 10.6
• adds compatibility with Apple M1 Chip
• adds compatibility with Big Sur OS 11 in FCPX

What’s new in v1.1?

• A fix for AE 2018.