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What is Virtual Video Production

What is Virtual Video Production?

Virtual video production or virtual production represents a unique Technicolor framework that allows filmmakers to plan the filming environment in full detail before they go live on set so that they can establish dimensions, camera movements, and various other needs in a virtual environment.

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Virtual production is a term that we rarely heard about prior to 2019, but after the reimagining of the Lion King, it became incredibly popular.

In fact, virtual video production, or virtual production, represents the use of advanced Technicolor processes that allow for the virtual planning and establishment of a digital environment that will be used to visualize a physical set before going live.

This allows the filmmaker to plan the film environment, camera movements, asset placement, and other needs in the virtual environment so that they have everything ready when they are prepared to film on location.

What is Virtual Production?

Just like it sounds, virtual production represents the creation of a virtual production location in which the use of computer software allows the filmmaker to create the location, background, props, and other elements of a set so that they can plan shots, camera movements, asset placement and various other needs in a virtual environment before they are live on location.

This way, filmmakers can work from multiple locations, to provide feedback or insight on the virtual set, before they are all physically working together on a real, live-set.

The Up Side of Virtual

Virtual video production has several benefits, especially in today’s world where social distancing has become the new “norm” in many areas of the world.

The use of virtual production environments can help to eliminate the old “We’ll fix it in post” saying, providing the ability to fix it in pre-production, before we even hit the set.

How Virtual Video Production Works

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Virtual video production involves a lot of planning, which is excellent in terms of reducing wasted time on set or mistakes. Allowing the planning of the set and all of the important activities to take place on the set to occur in pre-production, via a virtual environment saves the entire cast and crew time and money. Using computer software, the set is created in a virtual environment.

Teamwork makes the dream work

Teams can then work together, from remote locations, to add elements and provide feedback on the set. It’s like augmented reality for filmmaking, and it involves the use of a variety of different workflows and structures that come together to provide exceptional planning in pre-production.

Dimensions of the set are determined, character placement is defined, and asset placement can all come into play. The Director of Photography sets everything up in the virtual environment, and then the rest of the team can work together to provide feedback and constructive criticism.

No need to Fix it in post

Following the creation of the virtual set, virtual video production processes can move along down the pipeline until the shoot takes place. During the virtual video production shoot, the final details are hammered out.

This way, when the virtual production is complete, the real, live production can take place with flawless execution – thus saving tons of time and money on set while eliminating the “Fix it in post” mantra that so many Directors previously lived by.

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