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Cryptomatte

Cryptomatte - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Cryptomatte

- [Instructor] While there is no doubt that the Multimatte Render Element has been an extremely valuable part of the rendering and compositing pipeline we do start to run into problems when we have a scene that has dozens, hundreds, or maybe even thousands of objects that all need mattes creating for them. At that point, the work required to set all of that up manually using Multimattes could become quite a significant problem. Enter Cryptomatte, developed by the people at Psyop as a means of creating very accurate mattes in as efficient a manner as possible, Cryptomatte typically creates three to five different render elements in V-Ray that can then be written to multichannel OpenEXR files. Using the Cryptomatte plugin for NUKE or Fusion, all the free suite of ProEXR plugins for After Effects, mattes can then be extracted by directly picking objects in an image all by entering the object's name. Cryptomatte doesn't require any setup of objects or material IDs and such. And it also…

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