Hawaiki Keyer 5 - the industry’s most sophisticated Green & Blue Screen Keyer now with AI tracking

Hawaiki Keyer 5 builds on the best-in-class keying tools of Hawaiki Keyer 4 and enables you to use them more efficiently with even more powerful and intelligent tools for isolating your foreground.

It's easier than ever to maintain hair and other fine detail by creating secondary keys and dynamic garbage mattes with the new AI-powered face & object tracking and the new realtime edge tracking. And the new Crop tools allow you to exclude the edges of the screen and speed up the rendering of complex keys.

Refining your composite is faster and simpler with all the edge tools that were in a separate plug-in now integrated into Hawaiki Keyer. And we've expanded the compositing toolset with even more edge operations and the ability to resize and composite the background within the plug-in.

On top of this we've refined the UI and operation of the plug-in and optimized it for Apple silicon and HDR.

"For my money, these new features along with the depth of the adjustments available make Hawaiki Keyer 5 the best green/blue-screen keyer plug-in on the market."  Oliver Peters - digitalfilms

Marwari Nangi Bhabhi Photo

Indian daily life is punctuated by Samskaras (rituals). These are not just religious acts; they are psychological anchors.

Family members stroll around the neighborhood compound after dinner.

Social media has transformed daily life stories, with "Family Groups" becoming the digital version of the village square. However, despite the digital shift, the physical "get-together" remains sacred. Sunday brunches, wedding marathons, and festive celebrations like Diwali or Eid are non-negotiable anchors in the social calendar. The Spirit of Resilience

In a typical Indian family, the mother plays a vital role in managing the household and taking care of the children. The father is usually the primary breadwinner, while the children are expected to help with household chores and respect their elders. The family follows a patriarchal system, where the eldest male has the final say in all important decisions.

The meal is eaten on a thali (a metal plate with multiple small bowls). There is dal (lentils), sabzi (spiced vegetables), dahi (yogurt), achar (pickle), and papad (crispy lentil wafer). The children pick out the green chilies. The father pours the dal into his rice. The grandmother ensures everyone gets a second helping, even if she hasn't eaten her first. marwari nangi bhabhi photo

The Indian family lifestyle is a vibrant mosaic, a blend of ancient traditions and modern aspirations. It’s a world where the aroma of freshly made chai mingles with the sound of morning prayers, and where the bustling energy of multi-generational households creates a unique rhythm of life. To understand the heart of India, one must delve into the daily stories that unfold within its homes. The Foundation: The Multi-Generational Bond

In this single sentence, the entire philosophy of the Indian family lifestyle is captured. Not "May I be happy." Not "May my dreams come true." But everyone . The servant, the watchman, the cousin who failed, the bitter aunt, the exhausted father, the ambitious daughter.

The true catalyst of the morning, however, is Chai . The brewing of morning tea—steeped with ginger, cardamom, and milk—is a sacred daily ritual. Family members gather around the kitchen island or dining table for a quick cup, catching up on the morning newspaper and discussing the day's schedule before the rush of school buses and office commutes begins. The Midday Rhythm: Neighborhood Networks and Quiet Hours

At 8:00 PM, the aarti (prayer) happens. Vikram lights the incense. Priya rings the bell. Even the atheist husband who works in IT joins his hands. In India, daily life stories are soaked in ritual. It doesn't matter if you believe; you participate. It is the glue. After the prayer, the chaos relocates to the kitchen. Indian daily life is punctuated by Samskaras (rituals)

Homemakers bargain at local street markets for the best evening produce. Evening Reconnection and Celebrations

At the heart of the Indian family lifestyle is the structure of the household. While urbanization has accelerated the rise of nuclear families, the ethos of the "joint family" remains deeply embedded. Grandparents as the Anchor

To truly grasp the Indian family lifestyle, look at these micro-stories:

Elders read print newspapers aloud to debate local news. Social media has transformed daily life stories, with

The afternoon meal is a serious affair. Even if family members are miles away at work or school, they carry home-cooked meals in tiered stainless-steel tiffin boxes. In Mumbai, the world-famous Dabbawalas deliver hundreds of thousands of these hot, home-cooked lunches to office workers daily with mathematical precision, keeping the connection to the family kitchen alive.

Daily life varies significantly between urban and rural settings, yet some patterns remain uniquely Indian.

This is the most intense period of the Indian family lifestyle. It is called the "Golden Hour" only in an ironic, medical sense—like a trauma unit.

Hawaiki Super Glow is a powerful new glow plug-in for Resolve, Final Cut, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects that reinvents the glow and takes it to an entirely different level.

We wanted to look at the whole glow concept and see just how far we could advance it in terms of the science and the functionality and we think we’ve come up with something genuinely unique. The glow technology used here offers both impressive photorealism and countless ways of producing some really dramatic looks.

• Advanced exponential glow algorithm comprising six independently adjustable glow elements.


• Extensive toolset for isolating and refining the area to be glowed, including alpha, luminance, channel operations, matte tools and a powerful HSV keyer option.


• Multiple options for adjusting the spread, falloff and intensity of the glow.


• A rich set of options for adding color to the glow including a great-looking chromatic aberration.


• Sophisticated and powerful range of blending and compositing options.


• High Quality, Fast and Super Fast processing options optimised for quality and performance.


• Fully HDR compatible.

Hawaiki Hue Finesse is a unique new plug-in offering precise, targeted color enhancement in Resolve, Final Cut, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Hue Finesse combines Hawaiki's expertise in color grading, color science and keying to create a plug-in that allows you to precisely finesse the color and exposure of any part of your image.

• Eight customisable Hue Bands - Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta, Skin and Grey.


• Color Enhancement - Adjust the density, saturation, hue, gamma, gain and rgb balance for each hue band.


• Subtractive Saturation - Saturation can be set to subtractive or standard for each band.


• Mask Refinement - Set the hue, saturation and value range for each band or pick directly from the image. Then refine the mask using familiar keying tools like gain, clip black & white, invert and blur.


• Color Model, Color Space and Tone Curve - Choice of color model - HSV, Spherical or OkLCH, color space and tone curve. Color model and tone curve can be set independently for the image processing and mask.


• Shape Mask - can be enabled and inverted independently for each hue band.


• Primary Correction and White Balance - Make adjustments to the whole image.


• Customisation - Set the hue targets for each color model, choose default ranges and adjust the strength and response curve of the controls. Configuration can be saved as a preset for different workflows.

Hawaiki AutoFix is a powerful new repair plug-in for Resolve, Final Cut, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

AutoFix gives you fast, automatic restoration of dead pixels - and it’s also a lot of fun to use.

Intelligent, content-aware repair technology makes light work of what is otherwise a tiresome chore.

And there are plenty of flexible tools to finesse the results and paint in exactly the pixels you need for a perfect repair every time.

• HUD - a dedicated interface that gives you instant and precise focus on the area to be repaired (with configuration options for all ratios including Square and Vertical).


• Fine-Tune Target - Onscreen control for fine-tuning the target.


• Navigation View - helps you keep track of the bigger picture as you work on the detail.


• Match Swatch & Graph Mode - intelligent analytical displays that help to flag up repair problems.


• Repair Mask - Comprehensive options for fine-tuning the repair mask.


• Replace - a range of tools for finessing the values of the automatic repair pixels, including a manual fix option.


• Sampling - Powerful and flexible options for targeting which pixel values the automated process will favour.


• Sampling Menu - pick the sampling method from a comprehensive list of prebuilt options, and save your own combinations as required.


• Customisation - plenty of options for customising the interface and operational aspects of the plug-in.

Hawaiki AutoSplit is a versatile plug-in for split screen creation and animation.

• With even more power and flexibility to help you work faster and more creatively.


• And Supports a wide variety of host applications, including DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, Apple's Motion 5 and Final Cut Pro.


• With simple-to-use menu-driven animation and fully customisable grid parameters, AutoSplit harnesses a wealth of powerful automated processes to make your split screen animation projects much easier and more enjoyable than ever before.


• New in AutoSplit 1.5 - versions of AutoSplit Classic and Extended built with a new image processing pipeline utilizing Metal GPU acceleration.

Hawaiki plug-ins are available through FxFactory.

At Hawaiki we provide elegant and full-featured solutions to common editing and compositing tasks - automating what can be automated, while also giving you the control to finesse the result when required.

We put a lot of time and effort into refining the controls and interfaces of our plug-ins, simplifying where we can, but retaining the ability to make the fine-grained adjustments that pro-users expect.

All our plug-ins are tested rigorously on real world jobs before being sent out into the wild, and we spend a considerable amount of time testing and refactoring our code to maximise playback and rendering speed.

But don't take our word for it. You can download trial versions of all our products. And if there's anything you don't like or think can be improved, don't hesitate to let us know. We're always looking to improve.