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This document describes the installation procedure of ROBUSKEY. If you are very new to ROBUSKEY, or if you have any difficulties on using it, please refer to this document.
ROBUSKEY® for Video is a plugin software which uses a chroma key algorithm(†1) developed proprietarily by ISP that is specifically matched to people's hair characteristics and skin tone.
Creates matte images that are perfect for natural‐looking image synthesis without the time or trouble, and expands your creative imagination.
(†1) With green backgrounds, high-precision chroma keying is affected by specific yellow color regions. Please refer to Operation Guide for detail.
ROBUSKEY is a chromakey plugin which runs on softwares shown below.
OS | Host Applications |
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Macintosh | Adobe After Effects CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015 Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015 Final Cut Pro 7, X Motion 5 |
Windows | Adobe After Effects CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015 Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015 EDIUS 6, EDIUS Pro 6.5, 7, 8 (†2) |
(†2)for EDIUS users, see Install Guide for EDIUS
Here describes how to install ROBUSKEY plugin. The following procedure must be done with administrative privileges.
If After Effects, Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro, EDIUS or EDIUS Pro were running, exit them.
Run ROBUSKEY License Manager. Check your authentication status at "Installation / Activation status" textarea.
Select host application you are going to install ROBUSKEY by clicking radio button, and click "Install" button.
† If you would like to use ROBUSKEY on Motion 5, please select "Final Cut Pro X". ROBUSKEY will be installed both of Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5.
When installation procedure finishes successfully, a message shown below appears.
† When you install on Macintosh, username and password will be required. Please enter them which has administrative privileges.
Press "Browse..." button to specify where to be installed.
To specify where to install After Effects plugin, specify After Effects executable file which to be installed.
To specify where to install Premiere Pro plugin or Final Cut Pro plugin, specify destination folder. The destination folder is required to be recognized by its host application. Please refer to "Check Plugin Folder" for default destination folder.
To specify where to install After Effects plugin, Premiere Pro plugin or Final Cut Pro plugin, specify executable file which to be installed.
Run host application and check if ROBUSKEY plugin is listed.
When ROBUSKEY is installed on After Effects CS4 or later on Windows, ROBUSKEY will be listed on "Effects & Presets" window shown below.
When ROBUSKEY is installed on After Effects CS3 or later on Macintosh, ROBUSKEY will be listed on "Effects & Presets" window shown below.
When ROBUSKEY is installed on Premiere Pro, ROBUSKEY will be listed on "Video Effects" tree item of "Effects" window shown below.
†Clip Alpha is not be installed on Premiere Pro.
When ROBUSKEY is installed on Final Cut Pro 7, ROBUSKEY will be listed on "Video Filters" tree item of "Effects" window shown below.
†Clip Alpha is not be installed on Final Cut Pro.
ROBUSKEY will appear as shown below, when it is installed on Final Cut Pro X.
†"Clip Alpha" will not be installed on Final Cut Pro X/Motion 5.
ROBUSKEY will appear as shown below, "Library" > "Filter", when it is installed on Motion 5.
If ROBUSKEY plugin is not shown on the host application, please check if ROBUSKEY plugin files are properly copied.
By default, paths of plugin folder are shown below. For After Effects (other than CS5 or later) users or users specified another folder on installation, please substitute it.
Host Application | File Path |
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After Effects CS3, CS4 | /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS3/Plug-ins/Effects /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4/Plug-ins/Effects |
After Effects / Premiere Pro CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014 |
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS5/MediaCore /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS5.5/MediaCore /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS6/MediaCore /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore |
Final Cut Pro | /Library/Plug-ins/FxPlug |
Host Application | Plugin File Name (†3) | Description |
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After Effects Premiere Pro |
RobuskeyMovieGreen.plugin | Plugin for green background synthesis |
RobuskeyMovieBlue.plugin | Plugin for blue background synthesis | |
ClipAlpha.plugin | Plugin for ClipAlpha | |
Final Cut Pro 7 | RobuskeyGreen.fxplug | Plugin for green background synehesis |
RobuskeyBlue.fxplug | Plugin for blue background synthesis | |
Final Cut Pro X | RobuskeyGreen64.fxplug | Plugin for green background synehesis |
RobuskeyBlue64.fxplug | Plugin for blue background synthesis |
(†3) File extension may not be displayed.
Host Application | File Path | |
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After Effects CS3, CS4 | C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS3\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS4\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects |
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After Effects / Premiere Pro CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC 2014, CC 2015 |
Robuskey | C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\CS5\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\CS5.5\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\CS6\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\7.0\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ |
ClipAlpha | C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5.5\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS6\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2014\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2015\Support Files\Plug-ins\Effects |
Host Application | Plugin File Name (†3) | Description |
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After Effects CS3 | RobuskeyMovieGreen.aex | Plugin for green background synthesis |
RobuskeyMovieBlue.aex | Plugin for blue background synthesis | |
ClipAlpha.aex | Plugin for ClipAlpha | |
After Effects CS4, After Effects / Premier Pro CS5・CS5.5・CS6・CC・CC 2014・CC 2015 |
RobuskeyMovieGreenGPU.aex | Plugin for green background synthesis (GPU accelaration supported) |
RobuskeyMovieBlueGPU.aex | Plugin for blue background synthesis (GPU accelaration supported) | |
ClipAlpha.aex | Plugin for ClipAlpha |
(†3) File extension may not be displayed.
While you are intalling ROBUSKEY for Premiere Pro for Windows, a message shown below may be displayed.
In this case, installation procedure is needed to be done manually, for its destination folder is not found.
ROBUSKEY plugin files are located in "plugin" folder of a folder contains License Manager (RobuskeyForMovieLicenseManager.exe).
Source Plugin Files | After Effects/ Premiere Pro |
\plugin\AE_CS5\bin\RobuskeyMovieGreenGPU.aex \plugin\AE_CS5\bin\RobuskeyMovieBlueGPU.aex \plugin\AE_CS5\bin\ClipAlpha.aex |
Destination Folder | After Effects CS5 Premier Pro CS5 |
\Adobe\Common\CS5\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ |
After Effects CS5.5 Premier Pro CS5.5 |
\Adobe\Common\CS5.5\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ | |
After Effects CS6 Premier Pro CS6 |
\Adobe\Common\CS6\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ | |
After Effects CC/CC 2014/CC 2015 Premier Pro CC/CC 2014/CC 2015 |
\Adobe\Common\7.0\Plug-ins\MediaCore\ |
After installing ROBUSKEY, please activate it within 30 days. Otherwise, ROBUSKEY will not work.
Users can install/activate ROBUSKEY upto 2 computers (must be the same platform (Macintosh / Windows).
If After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro are running, exit them.
Make sure that your computer is online.
Run "ROBUSKEY License Manager". Type product serial number and click "Activation" button.
† Sample Image on Macintosh
† Sample Image on Windows
Message when Activation is Succeeded
Message when Activation is Failed
When you failed on activation, please check product serial number and retry.
Deactivation is needed for transferring license.
Deletes all the ROBUSKEY plugin file and deactivates.
If After Effects, Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro were running, exit them.
Run "ROBUSKEY License Manager". Press "Uninstall" button.
† When you uninstall on Macintosh, username and password will be required. Please enter them which has administrative privileges.
Run host application and check if ROBUSKEY plugin is not listed.
All the enquiries about ROBUSKEY® are welcome via email.
For the latest information of ROBUSKEY, please check our website.
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†Adobe®, Adobe After Effects® and Adobe Premiere Pro® are registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. in United States and other countries.
†Apple and Final Cut Pro are registered trademark of Apple Incorporated. in United States and other countries.
†Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Coporation in United States and other countries.
†ROBUSKEY® is a registered trademark of Research Institute of Systems Planning Incorporated.
Other names / company names / product names mentioned above are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
†ROBUSKEY License Manager uses "CLX C++ Libraries". Hereafter is its license terms below.
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