What It Does
Rescue Matte Filler targets a specific, frustrating problem: green screen footage that keys badly due to poor lighting, reflections, or edge spill. Rather than re-shooting or spending hours rotoscoping, the plugin analyzes the existing matte and patches the gaps automatically, recovering edge detail, filling color holes, and applying anti-aliasing to blend the result.
Note: this product has been discontinued and is no longer available for purchase.
Key Features
Smart filling algorithm. Detects and fills missing edge areas based on pixel gap thresholds you control. You set the maximum gap size in pixels so the tool avoids filling areas that should stay transparent.
Color recovery. When footage is pre-keyed or the alpha channel strips color data, Rescue Matte Filler can pull color from a keyer in the same composition or fall back to a manually set color. Useful for noisy footage where the key flickers between frames.
Automatic anti-aliasing. Edges are smoothed without losing sharpness, so the filled regions blend into the existing key rather than looking patched.
Shrink-grow control. Expands or contracts the filled matte area by a pixel value, giving fine-grained control over how much of the subject is reclaimed after keying.
Decontamination. Adjusts the tint of patched areas to reduce green or blue spill from the keying background, tunable between neutral grey and the screen color.
Process view modes. Toggle between viewing the full composited output, only the filled areas, or the alpha channel as white, making it straightforward to evaluate exactly what has been patched.
Who It’s For
Editors and compositors dealing with salvageable but problematic green screen footage. Particularly useful when re-shooting is not an option and the key is missing edges or has transparency holes caused by noise, motion, or reflective surfaces. Works in both Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Pricing
Rescue Matte Filler was a one-time purchase at $5.99 (regularly $7.99). The product has since been discontinued and is no longer available through aescripts.com.