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Why isn't this in the description???
Nice
goat
Filian is gonna flip when she sees herself in one of your videos.
Linus audience: why are you building a giant studio for TH-cam?? Do you know how big rumble is getting? TH-cam has been caught in thousands of scandals involving US election interference and censoring information that benefits their investors in the pharmaceutical industry… Why would you invest in such a volatile business model?
Linus: because, 81 million votes, bro. Where is your mask?
I can't wait to see what the community does with all these clips of Linus on a green screen
it's internet... it's like order 66... it will be done.
They should release it as a separate video on TH-cam
The danger is real
They will draw dicks... :D
gon be lit finding the menes at 3am
at this point LMG should just make a channel dedicated to talking about all their channels
Or kinda just the business side and how they all work together in their HQ
this is like their 6th channel now?
I guess floatplane sort of fits that definition because of all the bts
AHWU all over again
Linus Meta Group. =)
Andy looking around in circles awkwardly while people are adjusting his digital hair is a whole mood.
It looks so funny though. Almost like a sample NPC with a very basic test animation.
How can one look so funny yet not awkward at all while just standing around and moving their head in a smooth, unnatural way like that? 😂
This is gonna get memed
Should have T-posed to assert dominance
What about Alex being half-naked behind that green curtain?
The video chapters are related to another completely different video. Hope Andy wasn't the culprit ... not that it would be something unexpected XD
I mean, he could always blame his hair...
p.s.: fixed it seems ... or was it a youtube conundrum ? No ! It was Andy !!!!
Quiet props to Andy for just standing there awkwardly for ages while smack talked his haircut and ran through all this
@@erpbridge What
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote:
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
~ Shakespeare
Huh i dont understand this comment?
Ran through all this… what?
What is Quiet Props
Nothing beats a real set, but that is crazy good performance for a green screen set!
I'm honestly amazed at how well it works
Especially for the mental health benefits.
tbh, I was kinda lost when they were explaining the green screen stuff that happens on the black magic box thing. What's going to change (production-wise) for them, now that they have it? Can someone explain it like I'm 5?
@@queueeeee9000 They can use the same "set" for more than one show
I agree. Nothing beats a real set. As cool as this is, I will miss real sets. I'll also be curious to see if I can see the difference.
How to LAUNCH A CHANNEL but while making your normal video. This is genius. Kudos to writers 👍
And it’s already blown past 100k subs
Plus it can tripple as an infovideo for new employees XD
Cant believe how far Fillian has come to be featured on an LTT video! 🙌
Yeah, LTT was the last place I expected to see her. They have acknowledged the existence of vtubers a couple of times before by mentioning how some tech could be useful to them, but I did not expect to actually see one in a clip for B roll
@@TAMAMO-VIRUS Fillian's shenanigans have reached LTT's staffs for them to acknowledge her talent of breaking multiple VR equipments 😂
And I didn't expect Shondo's clipper here...
Ah, a fellow vtuber weeb
I didn’t expect filian to end up on a LTT video
Being a VFX guy who works in keying and deals with LED walls all the time, it's amazing to see this high end film tech spilling out into other content production workflows. Keying is never easy, and this is a fantastic middleground - I wasn't aware of the ultimatte kit!
The green screen live compiler thingie is honestly so cool
Dude I'm a video editor and this is the JUICE I need to get that inspo. Loving the editors flexing their muscles a little
Keep it up yall 💕
I want to know the hardware is in that box. I like purpose built hardware
Imagine if V tubers were using this thing. Then combine it with that thing corridor digital used to instantly composite a CG model over an actor, you could have thetubers interacting with real 3D space and it would look seamless.
@@bok.. You can do the same thing with a GPU on a desktop computer. It's just packaged nicely with video in/out in a box, and low latency. And they may have some proprietary algorithms.
as a vfx worker the detail on that is nuts , the hair definition and the refracted hand sanitizer and glasses is wild .. yea a cleaner green screen makes things easier but thats solid af. that would be so much work lol..
theres also a plugin for blender that does the camera data from your cell phone accelerometer
Can also use cheap drone flight controllers to log camera motion data.
accelerometers work ok (especially modern ones) but it's best if your phone has a gyroscope as well
@@a_d3mon i think all phones have both
@@JGnLAU8OAWF6 You would be wrong. A LOT of the cheap android phones lack a gyroscope and magnemeter but have an accelerometer.
I had to do a TON of research before I got my current phone (Samsung Galaxy A51) because most of the models below it contained the bare minimum and the A51 was one of the cheapest and best options. Even with all the research I did, it made no mention of having a gyroscope.
An A20/A21 both have only an accelerometer and a magnemeter and they're like $100 usd cheaper
As a vfx person, is it kinda incredible to you that part of their rig is a smartphone?
To me that’s bananas. Shows how quickly tech is improving.
I'm sure if you guys rang up Corridor Crew you could EASILY commission them to build you a workflow surrounding this tech. The LMG staff could quickly pick up on this but Corridor has been using this kind of advancement in video production for their whole channel's life. If anything I just want a collab about everybody geeking out at having a hybrid virtual production setup.
Filian clip is at 12:41.
It's absolutely worth watching the entire video, though, to fully appreciate how much work Filian puts into her setup.
How in the world did Filian make it into an LTT video?! My worlds are colliding.
Cause her content is the best illustration of VRchat powers
We probably have some Snackers on the inside. We've infiltrated the web.😂
ikr was all wow she should of been tagged
@@Allianser Definitely some of the best out now.
@@SmokeandSpirit yup us snackers are everywhere. Filian pays us very well In fruit gummies 💯
As a VFX artist, I always wondered how they did this so well live! That's awesome!
Also, great to see LTT move into virtual production!
wonder if they need any 3d / enviro artists on their team?
VFX surely?
Visual ectseff artist?
Love the future proofing of a set built in unreal. I doubt this would happen anytime soon but I wonder what it would be like to have something like this for a VR “WAN show” type thing
One thing you should definitely consider is that if you have lights in a virtual background, you also need to have set lighting in roughly the same location, as the shadows on the actor would look unrealistic if it's just regular greenscreen lighting with lights in the virtual background.
Filian on LTT as an example was great. The editor is cultured.
12:43 man, seeing Filian on a Linus video wasn't on my list today.
ikrrrrr
Not the gift we asked for, but the gift we neededd
Lol
@10:09 we had photo stations in 2002 here in Switzerland at the Expo.02 that already did that - some of these even didn't have a static background, just the view out. You'd have to move left-to-right and a bit up/down to "wipe" the entire area for it to detect what the background is, but once you did that, the result was awesome. No idea what happened to that tech, but apparently it was not that expensive even back then. Otherwise they couldn't have afforded about two dozen such photo stations to take photos and email them.
I love how much fun it seemed all the other employees were having in the background!
This is a banger of an episode. It's got that typical Willy Wonka chocolate factory tour energy that I've taken for granted the last 12 years of watching Linus' team productions. At this point traditional media can't possibly hope to compete - how things have changed.
Traditional media can't compete with what...?
@@kobeandgary Apparently it can't compete with the tools and tech that it's already had for a decade or more...
@@Nialligimino lmao right? What a crazy comment.
@@kobeandgaryShowing how the sausage is made. Traditional media is built on secrecy, obfuscation, and having a larger-than-life impression. This is down-to-earth and relatable.
@@cat-le1hf fuck are you talking about?
There is no other channel, where behind the scenes kind of videos overlap so well with the regular content.
LTT really found a perfect feedback loop, where their videos are about making their videos better
@@minuspi8372 Agreed, and actually I love them
Love how happy Linus is nerding out over all this and educating us. Thx!!
Thumbnail predicted the future
didn't expect the fillian clips in 12:42
Ikr I watch her shorts lol
No way they used filian as the example for motion tracking
Well, she is very mobile, so it's a good example.
They totally did!!
someone in lmg editor team 😮
when does she appear? I had the video tabbed out
@@asanajp3981 12:41
This videos editing and script is a sudden and unexpected major step-up, feels like some TV people got involved into production, great job
This type of thing is also done in robotics. My FIRST Robotics Competition team has been working on using a camera to locate markers called AprilTags to find where the robot is located on a field, and using that in the 15 second autonomous period where drivers can't control the robot during matches. (Though we haven't gotten it working yet, still working on the code :P)
Cool to see LTT finally start getting into virtual production. Using unreal or unity with some trackers or Rokoko mocap suits have become a super “affordable” low barrier entry for content creators in the short film space (like what corridor crew shows off to everyone) and especially Vtubers.
Side note: absolutely hilarious that Filian is the example used XD
Linus should just invest in one of those 'VOLUME' production setups like they use for all the new Disney+ TV shows!
@@StreetPreacherr Bruh did you watch the video? He literally talks about it, but it's way too expensive
On the issue of not matching hue due to lighting: You can dual sample. The manual for the Ultmatte12 covers this at the bottom of page 41
+1 for manual page reference.
This is amazing! I knew it was possible to do this stuff but didn't realise it could be processed live as it's being filmed
I respect the content LTT puts out, but I always enjoy the Behind the scenes aspect more. Like they could have a blog series about daily logistics issues and I would enjoy it more than tech news or whatever.
I've grown bored over the years honestly. I guess interests fade but I still watch a video occasionally when it pops up. I guess when it lost the Linus and couple buddies feel to it all, I kind of lost interest. I don't blame him though, I'd have cashed in with those millions too. Especially when it's doing something you enjoy.
@@jonny-b4954I also don’t watch as much of LTT as I used to but If you like the whole Linus and his buddies vibe I strongly recommend the WAN show, if you don’t already watch it. It is basically just Linus and Luc chilling and talking about stuff for 3 to 4 hours. I sometimes will go months without watching any normal LTT videos but I always make sure to watch the weekly WAN show stream or at least the recording.
yeah, we learnt a lot about computer back then bcuz linus do behind the scene on tech a lot. Now it's the infrastructure
@@patrickvballegooyen Yeah, that's pretty much most of my content nowadays. The videos its just them chillin and the videos have bookmarked topics. I dig that. Best feature YT has done in years.
If this is what we get from Linus stepping down as CEO and letting his creativeness flow, sign me up. The acting in the intro was A+ quality.
He's so much happier and less stressed 😃
This video's probably been produced for weeks.
@@NeonCoding end of the video: are you sure about that
He's the CEO until July 1st
It's not. He's still CEO right now.
So awesome to see LTT using Unreal! Looking forward to seeing more of this :)
Having a dedicated gaming show is amazing bc I don’t watch the full wan shows bc mostly looking for gaming news and having a full show dedicated to it from you guys is amazing.
Tom Scott did a whole game show based around this idea 2 years ago. It was called disconnected. It also used LED panels so that the actor could be accurately lit by the scene itself so they would blend in even more naturally.
Tom Scott has been everywhere and done everything
@@biggSHNDO ... all at once? 😛
@@ntlespino everything everywhere all at once
I think the lighting it what is causing it to be off for me. It looks good, don't get me wrong, but he still looks like he's on a green screen. Not that it matters for this, but I would not say it's as good as a real set. I think the lighting could solve that though.
@@frankmthompson The lighting is off and the movement is also janky af. I almost spewed my lunch from looking at that virtual set...
Linus is looking more relaxed and happier these days. Good job hiring his boss!
The CEO literally hasn't even started work yet so you're just imagining it.
He’s still the boss. Lol.
@@EoRdE6 Knowing he doesn't have to keep it up forever might ease some stress, but I don't notice him being any different than before the announcement.
@@EoRdE6that and calling Terren Tong a CEO is a bit dishonest. His role is properly described as CAO with potentially some COO work added in. At the end of the day, Linus is the one with ultimate decision making authority. Terren can’t override him if Linus says “no, we’re not doing that” or “we’re doing this, make it happen.”
@@samlevi4744 that's called being a shareholder.
So it’s quite similar to what I did in LIV on my Oculus Quest…no green screen, just a spacious enough clean area, a phone stand with a studio light and my goofy ahh bouncing around in front of my iPhone 12 Mini wearing a stupid white visor. Messed around some to get it working standalone (without the VR grip tracking) and it worked out really well. Would take a lot more choreography to do something on the scale you folks are, but a whole new world of creative possibilities still lay out there for us small time
I think I've seen your "qr" code looking things earlier this year... If I'm not mistaken, they are called April Tags, developed specifically for fast image recognition/ processing. The competitive robotics program I run a team for just switched to them this year instead of retro reflective tape.
This is cool. Nerdforge also released a video recently that shows how they updated their set to incorporate Unreal 5 and camera tracking, but with a more hybrid approach where they still have a set but render a 3D scene on a tv behind a window frame to make it seem like there is an outdoor area behind the set.
Potato jet Did something similar. His camera and workflow videos are second to none
We did virtual production years ago in Unreal for cheap with a htc vive tracker (1gen). It‘s actually really easy and allows you to realtime comp it together^^ We did this at a convention with cosplayers. Maybe 50ms latency at max. Still got the project lying around somewhere in case anyone at LTT is interested^^
That's what I was wondering. Why use the 5000$ vive thing when they could just as easily slap a regular vive tracker on the camera?
You may want to demo the ultimatte smart remote, it speeds up adjusting settings as to not waste any time with talent. Another way to speed up that workflow is to use hyperdeck recorders so your editors can ftp in and access footage potentially while still recording. The desync between virtual content and cameras can be fixed by measuring the system latency and then adding an AJA frame sync or equivalent before the ultimatte to delay the footage by that amount.
Whoever scripted this one did an amazing job. Definitely a departure from other videos I’ve seen. Really great.
Props to andy for being the perfect npc during the greenscreen explanation 👏
I’m glad to see LMG grow so much!
Edit:this is the most likes I have ever gotten on a comment
Right?! I remember watching him review the lan-boy air while sitting on a park bench!😂
@@JoshWhitford91 i used to be dissapointed by the bulldozer reviews x.x
@@JoshWhitford91 then i got the 1100t be :O bonkers to have 16 gigs and a 6 core in 2011 (2012) forreal
@@kiari1995 I still have my bulldozer chip 😅. Gonna make an acrylic case to make a history wall along with my fried hd7900 😂
TFO, the French public tv in Ontario has created a Virtual set a while back and actually rents it out. That could be a cool topic to show the technology. They're located in Toronto!!
Man. BMD has come so far from the last time I was working in broadcasting. So damn COOL!
Linus’ employees: Our workload is too big, I wish we could put out less videos that we work harder on
Linus: I know just the thing
@@jjann54321 They don't "want" more, they NEED more. 90% of their content is heavily reliant on releasing it as soon as possible. Product reviews, news, and their podcast content.
Also, why throw a jab like that? Far as anyone's concerned LMG properly compensates for people's hard work whenever they need to crunch. And something like this quite literally avoids those extra hours in the first place, so I don't understand what you're getting at in the first place.
That plastic soap bottle demo was amazing! This thing seems to composite better than most keying filters I've played around with.
Can you run old, pre-recorded footage though this thing for the same effect?
why not
The big question is one of compression. If you used hi compression on that raw footage, you will have difficulty using any method to remove the green screen. But if you have raw footage with very little compression, it could work well. High compression with cause a lot of artifacting around the edges.
I dont understand whats so odd about it keying transparent object, its still green
@@GrapplerBakii-hm6ywnuances in the reflections, changing of the shade of green as the bottle isn’t 100% transparent (look at the liquid and the thicker portions of plastic), and no obvious artifacts are incredibly convincing. It’s not just “removing green” as they say in the video.
@@istoleyourcoffee Its actually not that hard unless you are having a object that actually changes the chroma of the backround, like dark sunglasses for example. For reflections its just a despill. There are techniques to get a fairly good key (about as good as this or better, depending on lighting scenarios). You can simply despill the green, then you remove the original bg from the despill one (BG-DESPILL) that leaves you with only the despill. Desaturate the despill and multiply this over your BG. And at the last step screen you despilled plate over the BG.
What would be very mindblowing is if the hardware you deal with multiple colours of greenscreens and seams as in AAA movie production. Would love that.
dude, you gotta make all your in content ads this efficient, before i could even skip it, i had already been advertised to, so job well done
13:35 Small note for Android phone tracking. It's best to have a built-in gyroscope (in a lot of flagship phones such as the Galaxy S but not in all android phones), accelerometer (it's in most), and a magnometer (again, in a lot of flagship phones but not all androids) for real world tracking to work properly.
If you have an accelerometer it can work ok (drifts off track FAST), accel and mag and it works decently (drifts quickly but not as fast as just an accelerometer), and all 3 works great (still drifts but it is more gradual and takes a while due to how gyroscopes work)
I was almost expecting virtual production with giant led panels.
@@marcogenovesi8570well good for realistic lighting on actors & good for previz but ya everything gets recomped in post 😅
yeah i thought this was the time linus rationalized the purchase of the microled wall he has been wanting
@@marcogenovesi8570 funny you say that, the company I work for makes the hardware that drives these LED walls. While it may have flaws, it can save time in post production. The whole low light situation depends on what camera settings they use. The panels can be driven over 4000 nits but can the camera handle it and still capture the actor and background? For example, they want to use prime lenses, lower f-stop to get DOF effects.
@@marcogenovesi8570 An OLED without the LED seems like it could work? Not that anyone makes that.
@@marcogenovesi8570 To each their own. I think it looks much better than all green screen in movies. I watched 1899, fully done with led pannels and I loved the look.
This workflow is so inspiring, reminds me of doing live video editing back in the 90s, but not at all.
shout out to the whole team for being so precise; love LTT!
One of the coolest things back in highschool in the early 2000s is we had a Digital Broadcasting class, and we had a green screen, a special live green screen box, the video and audio switch board, and all that, it was tons of fun to mess around with and do the daily news segment things we did
This is such a great "intro to virtual production" video. Kudos to ya'all, great workflow.
Cool tech! I'm interested to see where the technology goes in the future.
I also find it hilarious how at the end of the video, it says "Thursday 06/28/2023" when today is Thursday the 29th. Somebody in editing must not have been paying attention to the calendar too closely. 😆
No no, it’s the 6th day of the 28th month. I mean no one would put the month before the day, would they? 🙃
Virtual sets are amazing now next to what was available to us when I was in school a decade ago, and that was already really neat.
I was crew on a student TV show that used a virtual set by the time I was finished, but it was all set up so that none of us really had to worry about it beyond keeping the on screen talent from getting close enough to the backdrop to cast shadows. Also one advanced production class I had I was offered a script the instructor thought would be a good use of the virtual set and he'd match my team with an architect, but we decided that learning VS stuff on top of the zero gravity stuff in the script would be too much for our shorthanded team.
I can see a future where the LMG studio is just a series of sound and light controlled green screen booths. I watched this video after seeing the first GameLinked episode and was impressed that they splurged on all of the (what I assumed to be Titan Tube) background lights.
If the future of LMG is genuinely going to be a larger collection of smaller channels, this approach could make a lot of sense.
As a production nerd myself, I loved seeing the BTS of how you guys work on these shows! I love Blackmagic's stuff.
Here's a fun trick: if you want to get the intrinsic parameters for your camera/lens combo and they aren't available online, 3D scan some object with the camera (take photos from various angles) and reconstruct it in colmap (set camera model to FULL_OPENCV and make all images use the same camera). Be sure to refine the principle point once the reconstruction is done. You now have extremely precise camera distortion parameters you can apply to any vfx stuff you render to get a perfect match
Nice :) Can you explain how this differs and improves upon the traditional checkerboard technique?
love the camera tracking parts, I do those algorithms for augmented reality
I love finding out about this sort of stuff. Ever since watching / reading about old Doctor Who where they used CSO (colour separation overlay - what the BBC call chromakey) and how much they used it in the 1970s & 1980s and were trying to push the tech then, it’s fascinated me.
The rendered green screen backgrounds still look a bit off, but pretty darn good for non-blockbuster movie quality green screening. There's motion blur that doesn't look quite right when moving and lighting issues. But I bet as the editors work with it more it'll get even better!
New gaming news channel? Finally, a consistent source of good gaming news that can be trusted! Thanks Linus!
Gameranx
Linus has been teasing Gamelinked forever now; can't wait
Gameranx,spawn wave,skillup
Gameranx exists. More options is always better.
SkillUp?
I was just working with these devices In a commercial broadcast setting I appreciate the explanation of how It works and now fully understand the dirty and clean terminology they were using.
I freaky love virtual productions!!! i'm so excited to see you guys talking about it
Really happy for myself and everyone else who loves watching you guys, having a gaming channel is so sweet!
Virtual products are so cool! I've been fascinated with it since corridor did it. It's really interesting how it's become so accessible to smaller creatives
I wrote software to do this sort of thing decades ago. They had taken movies of a knight in shiny armor in front of a green screen to be sprites in a video game.
Obviously I not only had to have it key out the screen, but it also had to get rid of the color in the reflections.
Ok, it was a lot simpler than this, and you might have had to have adjustments change per frame, but it did the job.
As a big TV production geek I find this fascinating. It’s amazing how far we’ve come.
I remember doing Chromakey as a teenager on Video Toaster in the 90s and this stuff is just wow.
Filian on LTT! She just keeps wining!
I wonder who's the snacker at LMG
The one thing that gives it away as a green screen is lighting. If your on-set lighting can match the digital set it will integrate almost seamlessly.
Props to Andy for being an amazing NPC.
This is so cool and interesting. I definitely want to explore this avenue, too - also the video was super entertaining to watch. I love these behind the scenes or rather production themed videos ✌️
I think the movement definitely has to be worked on to look more convincing. It looked incredible for two seconds but as soon as the camera started doing more complex movements, it looks like the background was really struggling to keep up. Definitely really cool though.
Linus once again with his shenanigans. Looking forward to the new channel!
I loved all the different studios you have created.
Super cool to see this virtual production setup. One thing, though. The example of the "TikTok" filter using body segmentation to turn the person into a colorful illustration is actually an Instagram filter... that I helped make :P
Even tho, thanks to Captain Disillusion, I already knew (almost) everything about this subject, it's so cool to watch this thing working its magic live while you guys explain it, good luck with your new channel!
The only problem is that the light has to match with the background scene. If you want to achieve a more realistic scene you could also track the lights in UE5. However it might still not look real due to missing reflections and stuff like that. Therefore as you said you'd need to use a very very bright Screen to cast light to the actor.
Otherwise a very interesting video. I love your videos about cameras and stuff like this...
Thank you for the video
The motion tracking section is wild, it reminds me of mysteryguitarman's video showing how he made everything look handheld, just tracking a sample of shakey hands and applying it to a scene
11:35 I have a friend who works in a multi million dollar studio with giant video wall almost like that. His cousin owns the studio and people rent rooms in it and network. They have worked closely with the Unreal Engine teams to fix issues they've encountered when setting up the motion tracking and all with UE5, the video wall, and cameras. It was insane when he showed me it all. It doesn't fully wrap around the room but it's like half way around the room.
It is nice to see some more in-depth chroma-key coverage. Blackmagic Design has been and is constantly pushing production on almost every front forward.
Blackmagic is great kit. I only have a couple of issues with them (Blackmagic) (these are personal peeves and purely opinion):
1) Their website is a pain to use. The support site layout is not intuitive and finding what you are looking for is a guess factor within a given product line (want the documentation applicable to the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K? Scroll down and maybe you will find a doc dedicated to the line or maybe not. What a document applies to often isn’t clear.)
2) This leads me to my second peeve. Their documentation isn’t great. All the docs look the same and cover the same stuff. Anything remotely complicated or advanced isn’t covered and you are left to hang and dig yourself. Want to find out what a DVE is and how to use it? Look no further than the DVE section in the doc where it might tell you what DVE stands for and that you use it for that purpose. And stop. That’s it. No more details, no examples, nada.).
3) Some of their gear makes a lot of noise. We had an ATEM Television Studio HD that sounded like a small jet while running. I looked it up and there is an iFixit article that covers replacing the small fans with matching Noctua fans that cost a small amount of money and effectively making it silent. Recently we needed to upgrade to an ATEM Constellation 2/ME, a much more recent model. And what do I find? Another small jet plane when it is running. Come on Blackmagic. Please spend more than $5 on the fans in these units. A good fan is quieter, more efficient, and more effective for not much more money.
Having said all that, we are still going to be using their gear because the competition in that space and at those price ranges is practically non-existent.
14:23 ah yes… Thursday the 28th… (should be 29)
9:50 omg I've always wanted a solid answer on how NBA and sport streams have sponsors that arnt actually painted on the court while still having players run around and it composites it perfectly.
That is awesome, and even more so that it comes from Black Magic. I'd love to see you guys using Davinci Resolve.
Those speakers look like portal turrets. 🤔 12:05
There are folks in the VR community who were doing camera tracking with regular Vive trackers several years ago in order to film mixed reality footage for streaming (like, composite their real bodies into the virtual footage from VR games). I'm pretty confident you guys could get that kind of Vive tracker working for way less than the $5000 pro ones. Might even be easier than integrating with ARkit, and it would almost certainly give better results than the fiducial tracking.
Just something to think about.
Our news station tried to do something similar. It doesn't work as perfect when doing live TV. It also required getting a whole crew to work it so it wasn't as cost efficient.
7:40 his hair gets more wispy on every cut!
I don't think it will be very long before LTT could outsource production for other creators/companies
Why would they ever do that though?
Maybe with the increasing number of videos and projects. They have more than 100 employees and they have recognised it is hard to meet the number of videos per week (25 I think)
They have in the past. They produced some ads for some companies, but sadly I can't recall any names off the top of my head.
uh... they're barely able to handle their own workflow, why would they add other creators' work on top of that?
@@ParadoxalDream I could see them selling services such as video editing, scripting, labs testing, as they expand to a multi-hundred employee company there will be more employees dedicated to the quality of each production, but once that gets to the point there's enough staff to comfortably handle all current and upcoming LMG channels, they'll have capacity to offer those services, and because of the reputation for great quality they've got it'll be easy to charge a heavy premium. That's almost full contract production house type work, especially if these greenscreen sets get implemented into a workflow efficient enough. Imagine a customer brings a script and some hosts, hops onto a greenscreen, shoots their video, it gets a set background added to it, the full script and storyboard gets sent to an editor as the shoot is being recorded for a near real-time workflow, and an hour after shooting a finished extremely high quality video is produced. Say this gets optimised down to only 4 manhours, say each staff member gets $100 an hour as an exaggeration. A normal production house would probably charge high 4 to 5 figure bill due to the manhours, but LTT get to charge a similar rate but at a much higher profitability. It's got the ability to scale to run in parallel if they're being contracted by other companies
Extreme hyper speculation, but a cool future to imagine.
Also a problem for greenscreen would be video file sizes. Because when using greenscreen shooting 4:4:4 is much easier to edit than 4:2:2 or 4:2:0, because it has a lot more pixel information... And it needs lot more space.
That’s really cool I thought it was just flashing light on you that machete the scenery
thanks for the cameo 00:00:45
12:39 - Spotted a Raspberry Pi!
Haha
Not surprised it's a BlackMagic Design box in there. That's the sort of thing they're really good at. I'm also wondering if there are some pinchable ideas for the next-gen chroma-key filter in software like OBS... :-)
I think the main patents have expired and you can find information about the algorithm online. It has of course been refined and tweaked over the years, but there’s nothing really magical going on, just a well tuned algorithm. We get comparable quality in a software called Aximmetry that also integrates directly with Unreal Engine.
This tech blew my mind. The first time I saw it was on the set of Umbrella Academy s02. There's a point in the season where a bunch of the cast falls through a portal. It was the biggest green screen setup I've ever worked on with a tower wrapped in green screen for them to jump off. Walked up to the monitors to see one regular monitor and one with a pre viz of the street in the east end of Hamilton already rendered. The only thing they didn't have was the sky. It was very cool to see.
Though I've done AR walls for both Star Terk Discovery and Strange New worlds and it's ever better. Also solves a lot of the lighting issues as well as adding lighting options for the DP.
Try some Astera Titan tubes on those dark spots to even out the light. Always hate trying to light a green screen. It's definitely a challenge to get it even while staying off camera. Glad these things are getting cheaper, planning on using the same method for my photography. Teaching myself Blender and Unreal to build virtual locations. It was a theory but you just proved it was viable so thanks 💜
They could probably fit an entire city in there and here I am struggling to find space for a bowl of cereal in my tiny kitchen