Blackmagic Design Ultimatte 12 HD

Blackmagic Design Ultimatte 12 HD

The Ultimatte 12 HD is a real-time compositing processor built for broadcast, live-production, and video studio workflows. It offers professional-grade chroma-keying, virtual-set compositing, and advanced layering — delivering clean, natural composites for HD video (up to 1080p60) with minimal hassle. 

Key Features

• Real-time HD keying and compositing via 3G-SDI (supports 270 Mb, 1.5 G, 3 G) with sub-pixel processing for high image quality. 

• Advanced image processing and colour science: excellent edge handling, accurate colour separation, improved spill suppression, and detailed matte generation — even with fine details like hair or semi-transparent objects. 

• One-touch auto-keying: automatically configures more than 100 keying parameters when your green/blue screen is properly lit — speeding up setup and ensuring consistent results.

• Built-in frame store and media pool: allows you to load still backgrounds, graphics, or virtual-set elements without needing a separate playback deck. 

• Compositing flexibility: dedicated inputs for foreground, background, mattes, layers, and holdouts — enabling complex compositing such as virtual sets, augmented reality overlays, and graphics integration. 

• Broadcast-ready I/O and control: multiple SDI inputs/outputs, reference input/output, GPIO, Ethernet (for control and media upload), plus USB-C for configuration and updates.

• Compact professional form factor: half-rack width, 1 RU height — ideal for studio racks and mobile production rigs.

Ideal For

• Broadcast productions, live streams, and studio shows using HD cameras

• Virtual-set productions, green-screen videos, news or sports studio work

• Projects needing fast, reliable chroma-keying and compositing (corporate videos, e-learning, webcasts)

• Productions with multiple cameras or changing lighting — the auto-key and advanced processing handle variations reliably