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

Mamotreto Catequesis Inicio Camino Neocatecumenal May 2026

Understanding the Initial Catechesis: The "Mamotreto" of the Neocatechumenal Way

If you’ve heard about the Neocatechumenal Way in your parish, you’ve likely heard the term "Mamotreto." While the word might sound unusual, it refers to a fundamental document: the Catechetical Directory of the Neocatechumenal Way. This "mamotreto" (a colloquial Spanish term for a thick, bulky book) contains the oral catechesis that has been transcribed and approved by the Holy See to guide the journey of faith. What is the "Mamotreto" for the Initial Catechesis? The Mamotreto de Inicio

is the specific volume used by teams of catechists to announce the Kerygma—the Good News of Christ’s resurrection—to those starting the journey.

The Goal: It is designed to help adults "rediscover" their baptism through a post-baptismal catechumenate.

The Content: It isn't a textbook for the students but a guide for the catechists to ensure the preaching remains faithful to the charism initiated by Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernández. Mamotreto Catequesis Inicio Camino Neocatecumenal

The Approval: After years of study, the "mamotretos" received final doctrinal approval from the Vatican in 2011, confirming they are a valid "itinerary of Catholic formation". Structure of the Initial Catechesis

The initial phase outlined in the mamotreto typically spans two months and consists of roughly 15 catechetical sessions. Neocatechumenal Catechetical Directories “Mamotretos”

El Mamotreto: The Backpack of the Soul in the Neocatechumenal Way

In the vast landscape of post-conciliar Catholic renewal movements, the Neocatechumenal Way (Camino Neocatecumenal) stands out for its peculiar vocabulary. Among the most iconic—and often misunderstood—terms is “El Mamotreto.” Far from a simple notebook or a collection of handouts, the Mamotreto is a catechetical instrument, a spiritual diary, and a symbol of the kerygma (proclamation) taking flesh in the life of the neophyte.

Step 2: The "How are you?"

Using the Mamotreto, the catechist asks: "How did you feel when you were invited here?" or "What is the biggest worry in your home right now?" One by one, people respond. This is the most important part of the inicio. The Mamotreto has blank lines for you to take notes on what others say, teaching you to listen. Understanding the Initial Catechesis: The "Mamotreto" of the

1. Understanding the terms

• Mamotreto (colloquial in some Spanish-speaking contexts):
  A “notebook,” “binder,” or “collection of sheets.” In the Neocatechumenal Way, it often refers to the catechist’s personal notebook or the collection of materials used to give the catechesis (questions, Bible readings, reflections, etc.).

• Catequesis – The specific catecheses of the Neocatechumenal Way (e.g., the “first announcement” – Kerygma, the “second step” – Postbaptismal Catechesis, etc.).

• Inicio del Camino Neocatecumenal – The initial phase of the itinerary: the Pre-catechesis (or first catechesis) where the kerygma is proclaimed and the person decides to begin the post-baptismal journey.

Thus, a “Mamotreto Catequesis Inicio” feature would be a digital tool to help catechists or communities manage, deliver, or track the first catecheses of the Neocatechumenal Way. El Mamotreto: The Backpack of the Soul in

How the Catechesis Unfolds:

Day 1: "What is your life?" (The Existential Question) The catechist opens the Mamotreto and asks a personal question. This is not a lecture. The participant is encouraged (though never forced) to speak about their life, their wounds, their joys, and their disappointments. The goal is to deconstruct the false image of a "self-sufficient" life.

• Mamotreto exercise: Writing down the key moments of your personal history.

Day 2: "Thus says the Lord" (The Biblical Shock) After hearing the person's story, the catechist opens the Bible to a specific passage (often creation, the fall, or Abraham). The Mamotreto contains the biblical text. The participant reads it aloud. Here, the Word of God "comments" on the life shared the night before. The realization dawns: "My brokenness has a name: sin. But God has a response: Mercy."

Day 3: The Kerygma (The Proclamation) This is the culmination of the inicio. The catechist proclaims the central mystery of the faith: Jesus Christ crucified and risen. The Mamotreto leads the participant to see not a moral code, but an event—a historical fact that saves them now.

• Mamotreto exercise: The final pages ask for a personal response. The participant writes a short "Yes" to Christ, asking to start the itinerary.

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.


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• 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.


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• 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.

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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.