In this short video, Jason Levine will show you how to use the new Ultra Keyer in Premiere Pro CS5 to pull quick keys from your footage, even with unevenly lit green screen. Once again, the 'key' here (ha ha) is the fact that Jason is running this process without rendering, leveraging the Mercury Playback Engine solely in software mode.

Learn how to create sharp, clean keys quickly by using the Ultra Key chroma keyer in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Key HD footage in real time with the new Ultra Chroma Keyer in Adobe Premiere Pro. Optimized for footage that includes uneven lighting, wrinkled backgrounds, and frizzy hair, Ultra preserves shadows and can achieve complex keys on smoke, liquids, and transparent objects. GPU acceleration dramatically increases rendering speeds, whether you’re keying DV or HD.