Virtual production aims to blend physical filmmaking techniques with digital environments and effects in real-time. This requires capturing live footage and camera motion with fidelity to convincingly composite into CG backgrounds. VIVE Mars Tracking provides the precision motion capture foundation using SteamVR technology. Blackmagic Design's URSA Mini Pro 12K camera offers cutting-edge imaging optimized for LED volumes. Unreal Engine 5 renders photoreal, interactive digital worlds. Together these technologies form an ideal ecosystem, empowering filmmakers to achieve new levels of immersion by seamlessly and accurately compositing real footage with virtual environments during production. This best-in-class combination of tracking, imaging, and real-time rendering lays the groundwork for the next evolution in innovative broadcast storytelling and entertainment.
Flawless Sub-Millimeter Camera Tracking
VIVE Mars outfits cameras with SteamVR tracking arrays for wireless, large-area motion capture surpassing traditional mocap precision. Tracking data streams into Unreal Engine 5 enabling photoreal blending. With just a calibration chart, this tracking solution can calibrate any lens.
Optimized 12K Image Quality
The Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K's 7680 x 4320 resolution provides an ideal canvas for subtle background replacement work. This allows shooting higher resolution talent photography for compositing into virtual environments, but the high resolution isn't why it got a mention in this post. We'll get to that later.
Wide Dynamic Range
With 17 stops of dynamic range in 12K, the URSA Mini Pro preserves bright highlights and dark shadows when shooting on LED volumes. This high fidelity footage composites well with CG backgrounds. However that's what makes this camera stand out from Digital Cine cameras such as Arri Alexa, Sony Venice or Red with regard to VR Productions. You'll need to read on.
Minimizing Moiré and Aliasing
The high frequency grid pattern of LED video walls can cause interference on sharp modern lenses and high resolution sensors. The URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF model adds an optical low pass filter precisely matched to the camera's 12K sensor. This OLPF improves moiré and aliasing by filtering out high frequencies that cause interference. It also updates the IR filtering for better color accuracy. Combined with Blackmagic RAW processing, the URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF preserves color fidelity and detail for incredible image quality when shooting LED volumes.
Ready for High Frame Rates
Up to 60 fps windowed 12K allows capturing talent with smooth motion fidelity for natural blending with high frame rate virtual environments streamed from Unreal Engine.
Revolutionize LED Volume Broadcasts
For LED virtual production, precision VIVE Mars camera tracking combines perfectly with the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF's stellar imaging. This empowers photoreal talent compositing with real-time Unreal Engine backgrounds for a new era in broadcast storytelling.
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