CorridorKey (by Corridor Crew/Corridor Digital) plugin for Final Cut Pro on Mac

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CorridorKey (by Corridor Crew/Corridor Digital) plugin for Final Cut Pro on Mac

Background:

CorridorKey is an open-source, AI-powered chroma keying (green screen) tool developed by Niko Pueringer from Corridor Crew, designed to revolutionize the way VFX artists and filmmakers remove backgrounds. Released in early 2026, it leverages neural networks to generate high-quality alpha channels and perform color unmixing, aiming to handle complex issues like hair, motion blur, and translucency that traditional keyers struggle with. It uses AI to perfectly remove green screens in a far more sofisticated way than any traditional chroma keyer ever could. Corridor Crew has a video about this on their YouTube channel.

Link to their video about this and how it will revolutionize the film industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4

Question:

I've seen this tool ported to Premiere Pro & DaVinci Resolve. It also clearly works on Macs with a lot of RAM, as demonstrated in by multiple YouTubers. Can anyone find (or make) a Final Cut Pro plugin for CorridorKey?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.4

Posted on Apr 3, 2026 3:10 PM

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Answer 1

May 1, 2026 10:59 PM in response to Joe Redifer

It's currently in public beta before being released on the Mac App Store.

Once you install Apple's TestFlight app (free from Apple), when you click the TestFlight link it will open CorridorKey by LateNite in TestFlight.

You can learn more about TestFlight here: https://testflight.apple.com/

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Answer 2

May 2, 2026 4:03 PM in response to Joe Redifer

Once you have TestFlight installed clicking the TestFlight link on the website should launch TestFlight on your Mac, allowing you to install it. Keep in mind that CorridorKey by LateNite requires an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 26.

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Answer 3

BenB

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May 22, 2026 8:26 AM in response to FilipOfficial

I just downloaded from the Mac App Store. This is just my humble opinion. So I tried it as stand-alone and as an effect inside FCP. It's nice, but doesn't impress me more than the FCP native keyed. Major Issue; the analysis is dog slow! OMG is it slow! I tried on a 12 second clip which ended up taking close to 27 minutes on an M1 Pro Max. If I didn't have to wait all day on a very slow analysis, it would have potential. Any M series chip should be processing an analysis like this way faster. WAY TOO MUCH time spent waiting on analysis for a key that doesn't do any better than the native keyer. Maybe a user manual would help us understand the overwhelming barrage of tools.

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Answer 4

FilipOfficial Author

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May 2, 2026 7:43 AM in response to Chris Hocking

Hello Chris,

Thank you for making a CorridorKey plugin for Final Cut Pro. We're unfortunately not allowed to install TestFlight apps on our work computers but please reply to this thread again as soon as the app is available publicly on the Mac App Store.

I'm looking forward to using it!

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Answer 5

May 2, 2026 3:06 PM in response to Chris Hocking

The only button that is clickable in TestFlight is "REDEEM". Clicking this demands a code that is emailed from the developer.

I can't seem to find any link on the web pages that would be akin to "click here to try via TestFlight", just a link to the TestFlight app download from Apple and the source code.

Sorry, I'm not a Github guru.

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Answer 6

May 4, 2026 8:53 AM in response to Chris Hocking

I'm always prepared to try something new but I think I have met my match.

I believe the first thing you do is analyse the clip but that's where the problem started . . . my M4 mini (not the fastest of computers but no slouch) was only analysing around 35 frames per minute which makes it a non-starter for me . . . life is too short to hang around like that. After a couple of minutes I gave up.

So I can't see it being used by the average man in the street on a regular basis for long green-screen shoots.

Assuming it works as expected, I think it would have a very niche place with someone owning a super powerful computer and having a short problematic clip plus bags of time to wait.

Or perhaps I am doing something wrong and could get it to analyse those frames quicker?

I was probably being unrealistic as I was expecting it to generate a key instantly just as when using FCP/Resolve.

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BenB

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May 22, 2026 8:32 AM in response to BenB

My results are zero. I ran the analysis, still have green screen in the background, nothing is actually keyed. Every time I click a control there's major lag until I see a result. Plus, how do you actually make the green screen background disappear? No control I touch actually does that after the analysis is done. Seriously need a user manual. I'm super unimpressed. Sorry, being honest.

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Answer 8

FilipOfficial Author

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May 22, 2026 9:28 AM in response to BenB

Ben,

I highly recommended emailing your problems to support@latenitefilms.com so Chris and his team can resolve these bugs. Chris doesn’t seem to respond in this thread.

Also, writing a review on the Mac App Store explaining your problems can be a good way to get their attention.

Hopefully an instructional manual can be included in the future, and hopefully some YouTubers can make some good tutorials for this plugin soon.

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Answer 9

FilipOfficial Author

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May 22, 2026 9:32 AM in response to FilipOfficial

I just think it’s unfortunate that this plugin only offers the smaller and worse version of CorridorKey, ideally the original, real 22 GB model of CorridorKey should also have been included for those with 32+GB of RAM who has a lot of time for rendering. This model is compressed and not as intelligent as the real model.

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Answer 10

May 1, 2026 8:17 PM in response to FilipOfficial

Sure! Here you go:

https://corridorkeybylatenite.fcp.cafe/

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Answer 11

May 1, 2026 10:31 PM in response to Chris Hocking

Chris Hocking wrote:

Sure! Here you go:

Thanks for posting that, but how do you install it? It seems to want you to download test flight but then there's nothing you can do unless they email you.

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