What are Virtual Sets?
Virtual sets can be as simple as a photo with the host or anchor keyed over
the background. This can also be quite elaborate, with the talent
interacting with the room’s environment, such as reflections across the
floor or desk. Virtual sets can be a post-production process, where recorded
footage of the talent is rendered into the room, but this is very time
intensive, having to shoot and then composite each shot.
How do live virtual sets
differ?
While several companies offer software packages providing virtual sets as a
post-production tool, the realm of live virtual sets has typically been
quite expensive, with systems costing $50,000 and more, depending on the
amount of specialized hardware required. TriCaster STUDIO provides portable,
live production, and allows all six inputs to have its own camera angle in
the room. Like most virtual set systems, you can cut between angles, but
STUDIO lets you fade or perform 3D transitions between angles.
NewTek has dramatically improved your access to affordable
virtual sets with TriCaster STUDIO™. Unlike simpler live solutions, STUDIO
brings realism into your virtual set with reflections, video walls,
refracted glass and more – in real-time.
Why are Live Virtual Sets
important?
Cue the talent and broadcast your show. Virtual Sets give you the
flexibility to use expansive, professional sets and even though your
location may have limited space. The scaling capabilities within TriCaster
STUDIO let you push the talent into a wide-shot without trucking to the back
of the room. This boosts production quality without requiring a sound stage
and floor staff.
The explosion of Internet TV means viewers are going to
expect higher production quality to keep their attention. TriCaster STUDIO
lets you stream live, to a worldwide audience.
SAVE TIME
Get it done now. Shoot for air, not for rendering later with STUDIO’s live
virtual sets. This gives your talent the opportunity to interact with
virtual monitors and desks.
Shooting in different studios no longer requires lengthy
set-up and re-lighting.
TriCaster STUDIO sets are all designed to operate from the same camera and
lighting angles.
This small, 16-pound box contains everything you’ll find in
a TV live truck: switcher, titler, keyer, audio mixer, VCRs and more. This
makes TriCaster field setup a snap. With all cameras having time-base
correction and proc-amp adjustment, you can be show-ready in minutes.
SAVE SPACE
Sound stages, in use since the days of silent film, are ideal places to set
up, construct and shoot expansive newsrooms and show studios, but many
producers are forced to shoot within much smaller spaces. TriCaster STUDIO’s
integrated garbage mattes allow you to cleanly isolate your talent,
regardless of peripheral clutter.
SAVE MONEY
In case your facility lacks a tape room and router to assign clip playback
to your video wall and the plasma monitor behind your desk…
Oh. You don’t have any of those? No problem. TriCaster
STUDIO realistically inserts your talent into that environment without the
construction costs or additional electronics purchases.
Integrated clip playback in STUDIO’s dual VCRs means the
technical director can effortlessly roll in produced segments without the
need to hire a videotape operator.
