Wood Circular Room with Monitors<All sets are designed specifically to take advantage of NewTek's powerful LiveSet engine, including the ability to scale the talent into the set with reflections and refractions, scale the B source video onto screens behind the talent (with reflections), as well as yielding a complex and truly believable virtual set quickly and easily. No construction needed!
What are Virtual Sets?
Virtual sets can be as simple as a photo with the host or anchor keyed over the background. They 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. NewTek's VT[5] and TriCaster STUDIO provide portable, live production, and allow all six inputs to have its own camera angle in the room. Like most virtual set systems, you can cut between angles, but VT[5] and TriCaster STUDIO let you fade or perform 3D transitions between angles.
NewTek has dramatically improved your access to affordable virtual sets with VT[5] and TriCaster STUDIO. Unlike simpler live solutions, this technology 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 VT[5] and 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. VT[5] and TriCaster STUDIO let you stream live, to a worldwide audience.
Save Time
Get it done now. Shoot for air, not for rendering later with live virtual sets. This gives your talent the opportunity to interact with virtual monitors and desks.
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. VT[5]'s and 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. VT[5] and TriCaster STUDIO realistically inserts your talent into that environment without the construction costs or additional electronics purchases.
Integrated clip playback in the dual VCRs means the technical director can effortlessly roll in produced segments without the need to hire a videotape operator.
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