Looking to learn the basics of virtual production?

Our VP Workshop for Greenscreen class is a 2-day, in-person look at the main technical elements virtual production, focusing on green screen setups – followed by hands on setup, shooting and post-production.

Los Angles area (mid-Valley)

Our next class will tentatively be in October, exact date tbd.
9:00am – 5:00pm(+), both days

Cost $450 
(free with purchase of REtracker Bliss &/or Fizz — camera tracker and lens data bridge)

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Some of the topics covered will include:

• Types / Uses / examples of VP
  LED Wall vs. Green Screen vs. projector
  Film production, live broadcast – plus tie-ins to VR, Metaverse, social media, gaming, performances and other non-entertainment industries.
• Main elements of virtual production
  Unreal Engine system / hardware specs
       Alternatives (e.g. Aximmetry, Live FX, Pixotope, et al)
  Camera (SDI vs HDMI)
  Lenses (cinema vs. photographic)
  Camera tracking / solutions
  Lens encoders
  Lighting (DMX; nDisplay driven wild wall)
  Monitoring
  Converters (e.g. SDI – HDMI)
• Calibration
  Lens distortion
  Nodal offset
  Lens encoder calibration
  Charts and markers
• Video signal
  Capture / output card
  Time code + Genlock
  Cabling
• Chromakey
  Hardware and software solutions
• Lighting
  Blending actors with the virtual environment
  Volumetric lighting
• Unreal Engine setup
  Project settings, plugins
  Media configuration and synchronization
  Live Link for camera tracker and lens encoder
  Composure
  Lens and Nodal offset calibration
  Positioning in 3D space (Aruco method)
  Color space / OCIO
  Environment setup
  Recording and output (Take Recorder / Movie Render Queue)
• Post production workflow 
  Editing and VFX 

We’ll also take a look at what’s happening with integration of Ai into VP and other filmmaking workflows.