Here's why Virtual Production Screens are taking over Hollywood. 

The setup for the Mandalorian is wild. I have a few friends and old roommates working on it and there's sooooo much going on. It's truly incredible what they can do now.

Yes I enjoyed it, that last demo of the background and foreground lighting for Virtual filming purposes was interesting 👍😎

This is such a great topic. Thank you. I'm learning a lot.

Some good info here and it's a well thought-out presentation. The Mandalorian literally had a blank check with no real budget, and the luxury of lots of time to shoot things, especially for a "TV" show. I worked on a Star Wars show last year for five months... no one complained about money or time once.

So much INFO. What a great video! I learned a lot.

This is one of my favorite videos that you've done. The content was fascinating, the editing was superb, and I really enjoyed all of it!

I really enjoy this video, as it really gives me a better understanding of what's going on exactly with virtual production and how it works and all

Okay this was a PERFECT video. Information was cutting edge insightful and intereseting. Footage waas engaging and the length was perfect!!!

Thanks Sara, great video - absolutely fascinating!

This is such a good video, glad you decided to release it!

Amazing, Always learn something from you.

Great video!

I really enjoyed this actually! Love explainer videos. Thanks Sara, especially for that last piece. I could definitely make some cool shots with my TV!

loved it keep going deep Sarah on the virtual production

Loved this!

Such a great video, Sara!

Loved this video.

love this content

this is great content!!

Sara... You are the apple of the techtubers. You make me care about and want stuff I never knew i cared about or wanted before. Very cool video. Extremely informative and thought provoking.

Brilliant video Sara 'twas fascinating to see were technology is going.

Sara, there's no simple way to put this, but.. you are my favorite tech RU-vidr.. and I watch them all. The balance of your energy, how deep or not deep into the tech you go, and your down to Earth perspective. It's unreal engine gurrll

Great refreshing video. Very energetic ❤🔥👌🏼

Cool you really went into depth on the possible issues.

Amazing!

I friggin love you. This was a solid vid

always love your stuff, but today struck by how you are very good at using the writing and visual language together for humor! keep it up~

I enjoyed it very much!

Sara, imagine having that 30 million-dollar screen on your new (48 million ) dollar home 😉 😂. Loved this video extremely interesting stuff.

Hi Sara; awesome video, and thanks for covering so much. I noticed at the end of the video (yes I was one of the 12 watching to the end) that there were background slots for 2 videos and the subscribe element but they hadn't been added yet. Figured you'd like a heads up!

Great stuff

Pretty cool/interesting Sara gotta love new tech! When it works! 🤣

Thank you, Sara!!!

That reveal where you were not in your office was mad!

Cool stuff.

Great job covering a complex subject Sara!

Amazing content

Great video

The current problems with Disney’s volume are one of the reasons that Andor stood out to me so much compared to the other Star Wars series on Disney+. Seeing real sets and larger environments made it really hard to go back to Mandalorian with those predictably small rooms and the slow action that happens when they try to negotiate stunts in the limited space they have to work in.

OMG I just realized this "new tech" is a call back to when they projected background on to a sheet behind where the actors where. Think 1940s to 70s westerns.

Fabulous, entertaining , more more more ...

Please make more content like this! ❤

Oooh! Always super exciting to be on the bleeding edge of tech like this!

I'm producing with this tech since 2019 and one of the biggest challenges with this technology is educating film directors, DPs, graphic artists, and traditional industry artisans. They all possess 10, 15, or even 20+ years of practical visual references imprinted in their brains. When they arrive on set, they start to freak out due to physical discrepancies with the virtual environment. These discrepancies can include depth of field, color, Pixel Banding, Cam Tracking, Field Of View when lenses are swapped, sensor coverage, moire, etc. If your director, cinematographer, and DP are doing this for the first time, make sure to collaborate and educate them well before the shooting days! Be prepared ahead of time.

Love your energy and enthusiasm!! This stuff is even happening all the way over in New Hampshire! There is a production studio called studio lab that is using this technology, it’s amazing!

can't wait for your new movie :)

This was actually super informative! And I work in VFX lol I've been fascinated with Virtual Production since Mandolorian pulled it off. Wanting to know all the thingamabobs and doohickeys. Obvs, I'm on the post side of things so that's my only window into it. Thor Love and Thunder was my first experience seeing the process. So the sequence when Thor and Korg reach Lady Sif with that dead god? That was shot with the Volume, I think. I also thought this was a one and done, in camera thing so color me surprised when I found that the shots had prep tasks assigned to it. I'm like "People still have to paint and roto?" =( Imagine the difficulty too...having to go straight in to grab every strand of hair or the furry pelts...isolating off white elements from white snowy LED backgrounds? Ugh... I'm a VFX Editor now but ever since Mandolorian or Star Trek even? Would be amazing just to be on the set of those and see virtual production in action! But...yep, the more I think about these sets and how expensive it can get to run them...time is money and everything needs to run seamlessly. I guess with competition, maybe the process can get cheaper...I've noticed Scanline, another VFX vendor, has something called Eyeline? Same idea. Seems like the bigger VFX studios are starting to create their own "Volumes" now.

Like it thanks :)

From a pro AV background, 1.5mm pitch isn't all that small, it's relatively common to get in the 0.8-0.9mm pixel pitch on DVLED panels. It just massively increases the price to go smaller.

LOl I bet if they stretch a green screen over that wall and use the wall as a back light. they can use an algorithm to clean up the reflections and put the actor in the virtual environment in post. Perfect solution.

They led the charge, but they also cut the Industrie's teeth on the technology. As more teams adapt to it and learn it, new tools will come along to simplify - particularly in AI.

Hi, Sarah I call these studios with flat smart screen are Modern Studios.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

100% Watch time from me on this one! Loved it

I wish I could have gone to NAB, but just got home from Infocomm, and virtual production was all over there too.

Nice

The camera tracking technology is a derivative of the tech used to track the camera's field of view for the first down lines in football.

this is all great but there is nothing like shooting a live location, the options it gives a different perspectives and angles once shooting. not to mention the inspiration.

What I've learned it that I need to find a job soon, so I can spend all the money on this! Nerdforge's video about their new studio also didn't help with that feeling xD

If I had a nickel for every virtual production studio I built, I would have two, which is not much, but it is weird it happened twice. Now for the serious stuff, I did this in a third world country where we have never even had a formal traditional film studio due to a huge amount of issues and barriers. VP did allow us to basically jump above the hurdles, and now we are capable of doing decent work unlike anything we have seen in the past. And as this technology progresses, it will only become better.

Re: the saving time issue, maybe it's about the price of that time? On-location time is probably more expensive than post-production time. For every hour/day on set, they also need to have hundreds of people there between cast, crew, and production, plus the cost of equipment or location rentals. I'm not in the industry and still know it's normal to cost millions of dollars per DAY. Whereas post-production days are probably made up of a few dozen people working in an office the studio has a long-term lease on.

I'm not in my office right now. I'm actually in a virtual production stage. Also this video has actually been written by an AI. And WHAT IS ACTUALLY REAL ANYMORE ANYWAY AAAAA

It was also used on The Batman.

I liked it. I'm one of the 12 people, and I'm the VP guy in Sweden 😎

Infinite golden hour sounds like some serious fun!

Alister Chapman! The Sony Guru himself!

Sara ❤️ what is your video camera 🖤❤️

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The fun things is you can make a poormans version of this for fairly cheap frot he indie indie / low budget filmmaker or even the hobbyist. Unreal, a green screen or a decent projector or 3, a tracker like the VIVE Mars tracker and you can make use of these same tools and techniques. I'm not talking hollywood here but indie ni/low budget filmmaking. A really decentish setup will set you back maybe 20,000$ or if you are using the camera tracking with a green screen (loosing a lot of the advantages like proper light reflections and immersion) but using Unreal to track the camera movement (removing the need to 3d solve) and to do all or some of your compositing, the cost could be a whole lot less. 6000$ for the mars tracker? 2000$ for a decent PC? Adn there you go. Again, at the guerilla level film making level. This opens up a lot of posibilities for low budget and aspiring filmmakers.

As an editor (both video and writing), this title is making me twitch. It's supposed to be, "all of a sudden". The current incarnation ("all of the sudden") is very much grammatically incorrect. That being said, love your videos!

It is just exciting to see where all of this goes and how it will eventually become more accessible for all of us. I work for a TV network and during the pandemic we had teams go out to the news anchor's homes to literally put a 70" screen in their living rooms to use as background for when they went on air, some even used only iPhones as their camera. It looked great on air.

What is the Star Wars clip from? With the girl with the red lightsaber?

whats the over all starting price many will be asking i think many will be walking away after but this brings us ideas in other ways for us to brain storm up your own ways of doing this

Make it 13😊

Unreal 😂😂. This ride is the equivalent of my childhood experience at a county fair where a low-budget green screen was propped up behind a coin-operated carousel jeep that rocked back in forth being filmed with a VHS camcorder and the "director" blasted air cans in my face to make it show as if there gusts of wind while time traveling. So what you have here..is the most expensive unnecessary setup but is only possible because of corporate budget and fuck yea lol.

So you're saying you thought this whole process of digital production would save time, but it ended up being moire work than anticipated? Great video, as always. NAB is a lot of fun. Definitely a cool place to drool over gear and feel totally inadequate lol.

Mando S1 was rough .. big learning curve. S2 got much better. Virtual Production is great and a lot do it wrong. The successful one's will survive in the see of new competition.BTW, excellent video and your energy is 11 out of 10.

Stay peachy

I haven't even finished watching and I'm thinking how sad it would be for someone brand new to production and they never get to experience the need to get up at 3 AM so they can be on site to get the best light...🤣😂

Particularly that last part, someday.....

The thumbnail feels so sassy 🤭 I do hope this tech becomes popular fast. Imagine getting to act in that crazy world. Or having this at Disney and universal studios! Whoa!!!

yeah, all for the future Apple Vision Pro! ok, ok, who knows

All of a* sudden

Virtual studios, can just be a green screen. Often used in news. What is really crazy, is you can be sat at a cheap wooden desk IRL whereas in the virtual world its a gloss black desk with the real time reflection of your ring created. All this is real time and no post - because it's news. Virtual in for TV say for soaps, where you need to create the digital world still isn't cost effective. TV lighting is my profession, I was at NAB myself for a manufacturer .

This reminds me of a film called "Gamer."

The Bourne Stuntacular at Universal Studios is a great live example of virtual production. It's really cool to see live. Thanks Sara!

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Yo I'm early for once

maybe they use virtual productions just for the armor reflections.

Where have I heard this intro song….👀

Of course nobody who can do anything about this will see this comment but what about this idea to solve some of the problems with virtual production screens: Have screens that can put out infrared in addition to RGB and cameras that can pick up infrared in addition the the color spectrum that they normally pickup. Firmware inside the camera would use the infrared to mask out the actors, props and scenery in front of the screen and the high res version of the background imagery could be fed into the camera to combine with the imagery in front of the screen. That way the resolution of the screen would not be so important and the cost of screens need not be as much. But let's see what these geniuses at Sony and the other companies come up with and see if this idea even crosses their minds.

I wonder if Apple uses the Mandalorian technology for their virtual keynotes 🤔

wow thats a very cool technology.. to male things look real.. better than any greenscreen but also far more expensive...

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VP is an intermediate step for filmmaking imo, rather than the future. LED volumes are just too ridiculously out of reach with only slightly better results.

So I started following your husbands channel after the last video and I think he should’ve named his channel Mr. peachy unless he started it before years I don’t really know

it's not a failed experiment, it's a new approach to lighting. Dune proved ambient lighting is what sells cgi. think of it as GI in a 3D scene - it's for immersion (actors and audience). I imagine that filming this way also gives you exact info for background, which would make high-res renders and rotoscoping way easier.

mandooo

That video felt like a whole night of Intense Fixation but condensed in 20 minutes so so cool! You may have ruined my productivity for the day

I think these virtual sets are boring over a 2D screen. Maybe it’s early tech, but after Apple Vision Pro comes out. I think it will be a much different experience.