Hello, I'm unsure how to word this but I will try my best.

For some reason, on my studio's nDisplay, the picture seems to be at a weird angle and give it a curved appearance? Like it distorts the environment strangely?

It happens in every environment.

If I have the frustum activated (using Mosys for camera tracking) it fixes the issue and shows the correct view, keeping objects straight etc.

BTW, we already re-made the wall mesh in Blender to make sure it was accurate and it is :/

it distorts the wall and closet doors to curve downwards (box to block my coworker who was standing in)

how the actual environment looks, all walls horizontally straight

again, this temple in the background is completely straight YET distorts on ndisplay

ndisplay config window, you can see it really clearly here, as I'm sure most of you know that building on the right side is completely straight yet gets strangely angled and curved while on ndisplay

When lighting in your environments for LED walls do you use real world lighting levels (example 1700 linens for a 100 watt lightbulb), or do you just use what looks good while building the environment before putting it on the wall?

Hi everyone, 

We are presently testing new possible LED panels for our studio and we have encountered this really strange phenomenon. Some details:

• It’s always roughly horizontal, no matter if I twist the camera horizontally off axis or tilt the LED wall-piece
• When genlocked, the stripe sits still, and moves accordingly with vertical camera movement (I pushed it slightly off sync here on purpose because the problem is easier to show on video)
• In the reflection, the stripe moves on (!), not as a reflection, but something else. This only concerns light that has been projected by the LED, and not ambient light in the studio which is mind breaking for me.
• We use a rolling shutter cam. We tried with a global shutter rental camera, in that case the stripe sits still on the wall and is not anymore camera movement dependent, but is still (albeit less) visible.
• Camera is presently at 59.94, 360° shutter angle (but we have tried in other combinations, stripe gets broader with 180°)
• We tried with many different cameras, synced via genlock and unsynced, and have always found something like that
• It is independent of content and content source, we even tried two different LED processors
• It shows up in darker / dim picture areas the most.
• I blew up the footage a bit in post to make it more visible. Of course this is not visible to the naked eye.

Any ideas what we are witnessing here, and maybe also how we can tackle it?

Thanks everyone!! Appreciated.

https://reddit.com/link/1gvowfd/video/ue48qqrd022e1/player

Has anyone been able to get 5.5 running on their stage? I have tried to get it working but it keeps crashing or freezing.

Hi

just watched some bits from the Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul boxing fight and curiocity has gotten the best of me. Does anyone have any knowledge on who or what company did the virtual graphics for the program. Or even better some software / hardware specs, I´m assuming at least one spider cam and probably some other assortment of Stype stuff.

In following along with the “Autoshot Unreal Round Trip” tutorial, I’m attempting to replicate this specific step-in-the-process (but within Unity) beginning at this timestamp: https://youtu.be/XK_FpXXBU7w?si=rUbzpH_ERUbTq-By&t=2299

My Jetset track is solid. My recorded Jetset comp is solid. I seem to be facing the same problem demonstrated within the video caused by the inaccuracies of the iPhone LiDAR system.

In my efforts to replicate the outlined solution (from within Unity) as provided by the video for Unreal - I’m not achieving a similar result.

Attached are two screengrabs: https://imgur.com/a/DlyCQUh

1. The in-iPhone Jetset comp .
2. The Unity Editor with Animation Window & Hierarchy Window open.

Replication Notes:I’ve tried deleting keyframes and manually entering a position for the Image Plane gameObject’s Z-axis Position (Unity Equivalent). I’ve also tried deleting keyframes and manually entering a scale for Image Plane gameObject’s Z-Scale. Neither approach succeeds in replicating the process outlined in the linked video tutorial.

My three questions:

1. Which gameObject animation transform properties should be deleted?
2. Which gameObject should have its X-Position location altered?
3. What might be the correct workflow for getting the image plane track to perform in Unity as it does within Jetset?

Besides building a studio, do you just need to get a foot in the door with a working team?

Doesn't seem like there's an easy inroad besides spec work.

Looking for an artist to assist with our unreal scenes. We have modeled majority of geometry in 3dsmax (mainly architectural imagery like exteriors, boardwalk, retail, office interior) Tasks would be to translate finished 3dsmax files, replace any assets (plants), redo lighting etc.. Looking for help next week. I can send brief if you have a portfolio via email. Can sort pricing after.

Freelance, remote work per scene.

How common is proper techviz implemented in virtual production for commercial productions? Is it typically offered but omitted due to budget/timeline constraints?

Hello everyone! 

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Thank you for helping with my research!

We're a small VP studio with a 30'x12' LED wall. We are trying to ensure our render node is running the best it can. We've had some questions come up over the last year as far as best practices go, specifically relating to performance. We have two a6000 cards in the machine but we'll often find levels run with unusable frame rates for icvfx until a level is really pared down to the bare bones. Is this to be expected?

Also just looking for ways to test and get benchmarks. We've sometimes wondered if we are indeed using both GPUs and using them in the most effective way. I haven't been able to find definitive answers on nvlink, SLI, multi-gpu etc. so just wondering if anyone can weigh in on the matter.

Specs:

AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX 2.7GHz 64 Core, 256 GB RAM, 2x NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB

Looking for resources like

-Pixel counting ruler

-pngs for seeing dead pixels

-anything else

Hi everyone,

I'm not 100% sure if my question covers the standard virtual production method/workflow since my interest is specifically with only the Lens File and Lens Component setups, and not relying on using additional live-action plates or LED wall panels.

I've been wondering if anyone is familiar with the process of transferring raw static and/or dynamic solved lens data that's from 3DEqualizer into Unreal's Lens File setup? There's very little information I've found about this topic online since it's not a real-time live link workflow directly within Unreal.

The goal I have in mind is to investigate what distortion parameters are transferable; Especially if the data is recorded across each frame for an image sequence. Whether that can cover lenses that are dynamically animating over time due to a change in focus pull, focal length, as well as lens breathing and/or re-racks if using anamoprhic lenses.

Can someone please explain what these are used for?

Hi folks, I'm looking for any free trainings, videos and documentation that give a broad overview of how a Virtual Production studio "works". Basics like genlock, video processors, LED arrays, etc and how they all work together is what I am looking for. I've been watching YouTube videos trying to learn what I can but wondering if anyone has any recommendations? Is there anything that covers the basics, VPS-101 type of thing?

A little background, my company's marketing department is setting up a VPS and my team (internal IT/AV) will be supporting them from time-to-time. I'd like me and my guys to learn some of the basics so we are all on the same page when we help out. Basics on motion tracking systems (mo-sys), how the signal flows from camera-unreal-video wall, how video processors (Brompton) work, etc. I'm not expecting us to walk away from watching some videos to be experts, but I want us to have a good feel for the process.

I would also like some of the managers and directors to go through these trainings so they have a better understanding of how this whole process works.

https://youtu.be/MpxwnLCiSvQ

https://preview.redd.it/m3meargsm0yd1.png?width=3972&format=png&auto=webp&s=cc669544c1e9099d3242a5c4aa31bc608f735933

This image shows our current studio setup.

One PC is connected to an LED processor via HDMI, and the background is displayed on the LED WALL through N-Display.

We are currently using a GH4 as our test camera.

https://preview.redd.it/tizxdogsm0yd1.png?width=6546&format=png&auto=webp&s=dbd6cb0db86a0c6829425c6f17dcb8be3e892586

And this is the Genlock configuration diagram that I've studied and put together.

Is this the correct way to configure Genlock for an LED Wall

And I have another question.

Is a Quadro graphics card absolutely necessary for Genlock between the camera and LED WALL?

I understand that Quadro is needed when running N-Display with multiple computers.

However, since our studio runs N-Display with just one computer, we determined that we don't need a Quadro and built our computer with an RTX 4090 instead (Quadro is also too expensive).

I am preparing to open a virtual production studio in Korea.

https://preview.redd.it/ksw42tbhhvxd1.jpg?width=966&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1d644814affaf5cbb8caa26be37520d24ac33d8

https://preview.redd.it/em9pdqsjhvxd1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c1bb17a397c4e4498d31e542aa9d680d770373c

We are currently testing with a Panasonic GH4 camera, and the results are absolutely terrible.

The footage is so bad that we can't even tell if we're doing things correctly.

When we get even slightly closer to the wall, there's severe moiré, the colors look strange, and overall it's just terrible.

However, when some clients came to our studio and shot with Sony cameras, the results were decent (though this was shooting 2D video played on the LED wall, not Unreal Engine content).

Therefore, we feel it's urgent to establish what the standard specifications should be for cameras suitable for virtual production.

I don't think it's possible to get detailed camera recommendations from this Reddit post.

I would be grateful even if you could just give me a rough estimate of what level of camera would be suitable.

Hey there. In order to create a few "simpler" setups on our LED wall, we've been doing some UE 5.4 renders to put on the wall instead of doing live-tracking. (This of course means a fixed view without parallax and that's fine for this purpose) Is it possible instead of rendering one specific cinecam to render the (curved) LED Wall projection that's used for the outer frustum instead? Meaning, in that high quality that the movie render queue allows. That would probably work better in terms of more accurate display of the world...

Thanks for any advice!

This might be not the smartest question but I'm serious here.

I've set up a virtual production with a green screen room. I'm using the vive mars setup, the BMD ultimatte 4k, and an otherwise all in UE5.4 setup which gets me all the way to a final composition over adi outs to the preview screen and I record takes to render out with path tracing afterwards.

What exactly does aximmetry do to lighten/ ease up the load? I see that it manages Hardware and tracking, can load scenes and key the green out, but is it still beneficial enough currently to pay the hefty price for it?

We're currently looking to optimize our studio to be more reliable although we are already in a pretty good spot, we get 50fps with scenes that are all Megascans and have foreground elements in front of the recorded person in the Greenscreen too.

I'm genuinely asking this because I can't find anything about aximmetry use for VP that's less than 2 years old. Two years ago the UE was wildly different when it comes to VP...