When everyone was forced to work from home, it made editing quite difficult. Here’s how the pandemic accelerated remote production: In post, assets are edited on non-linear editing software (NLEs) connected to huge storage systems located deep within studios and post-production houses. Remote production is simply the ability to handle post-production tasks from anywhere. Remote production has more to do with post-production. We’re all familiar with the stages of production: development, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution. So, virtual production is easily confused with remote production, but it’s not the same. This also means location scouting can be done entirely inside the virtual set and the assets created for pre-vizualiation can actually carry on into post, saving a ton of time (as the post work actually starts during pre-production. If you were one of the millions who have been watching The Mandalorian on Disney+, check out this behind the scenes look at how they utilized a virtual production. With the two systems combined, a camera following an actor on a virtual set can react by moving the background along with the camera in real time. (It’s way more tech-y than that, but you get the picture.) You can even match the virtual lens in Unreal Engine with the lens of your physical camera. Using a motion sensor system attached to a camera, Unreal Engine is able to understand where your camera is pointed. Now this isn’t just a LED screen as a background-what makes virtual production so powerful is its motion tracking integration with real cameras. With virtual production, your set becomes the LED volume, and Unreal Engine can change the background to anything you can imagine at the click of a button. An LED volume is exactly what it sounds like: a huge volume of LED screens connected to a single input (the Unreal Engine environment). Once the environment is designed and lit within Unreal Engine, it can then be fed to an LED volume. Virtual production is a method of production where, instead of building a set or going to a specific location, you build a set virtually, usually with a gaming engine such as Unreal Engine. Never fear: virtual production came to the rescue. Gathering a film crew together in a studio or in any location of the world went out the door. When the pandemic hit, social distancing became the norm.
It sounds like doing production virtually, which could just mean “in the cloud.” I can assure you, it’s way cooler than that. Reserve time to meet with our team (and snap up some sweet goodies) below. Oh, and we’re bringing some really hot swag.
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