Previsualization and On Set Preview

Finally, visually complex productions can actually see the entire shot during production, instead of staring at a wall of green. When everyone sees the same image, decisions are rapid and stage operations efficient.

Previzion provides the following on stage benefits:

• Know that you have the shot before you wrap.
• Make the movie once instead of three times, using Previzion’s clean data workflow to go from previsualization to production to post production.
• Remove surprises from the visual effects process.
• Tune on set lighting with the composited preview image, to avoid expensive re-lighting in post.
• Catch and diagnose keying problems easily, before paying for them in post.
• Catch set extension or character mismatch problems instantly.
• See the entire shot at once.
• Retain artistic control with DP and director.

Production and In Camera Compositing

Previzion’s real time VFX pipeline is enabling an entirely new world of high speed visual effects production: finished shots, instantly. For many productions, traditional post methods of keying, tracking, and compositing simply take too long and cost too much; Previzion enables high quality compositing, without the wait or the cost.

Previzion can provide productions the following benefits:

• Finish shots in real time — no post!
• Photorealistic background creation tools let you send a 2 person photo survey team to a location, instead of an entire crew.
• Integrate prerecorded video with stills seamlessly to make scenes come to life.
• Store your photorealistic sets . . on a thumb drive.
• Use the stages, cameras, lenses, and shooting style that you’re already used to.

Post Production

Previzion can enable radical speed increases in post production pipelines. With the combination of timecode matched tracking metadata and a timecode matched composited feed, editorial and VFX can both hit the ground running.

Benefits to post production include:

• Reduce or eliminate the need for post production tracking with timecode matched metadata.
• For shots with ground contact that require post tracking, real time data can be used as a seed to dramatically increase tracking speed by 5-10x.
• Keep track of where virtual objects were placed, on a shot by shot basis
• Editorial can start cutting immediately, with a timecode matched composite image

Previzion – Technical Specifications

 

Video Inputs

• 2x HDSDI (BNC) 4:2:2 live video feeds
• 8x MPEG2 (.mpg) Full HD video files

Video Outputs

• 1x HDSDI (BNC) 4:2:2 comp output
• 1x HDSDI (BNC) 4:2:2 (selectable comp or matte output)

Input/Output Frame Rates

• 23.98 PsF @ 1920×1080
• 25.00 PsF @ 1920×1080
• 29.97 PsF @ 1920×1080
• 59.94 i @ 1920×1080
• 23.98 PsF / 59.94 p @ 1280×720 (RED One)

Network

• 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45)

Timecode

• LTC Timecode input via BNC

Genlock/Sync

• SMPTE Tri-level sync signal input via BNC

IO Ports

• 4x Serial Ports
  1. Zoom/Focus Controller Data
  2. Stereo Rig/Encoder Data
  3. Airtrack Data
  4. Intersense Data
• Additional 4x Serial Ports (RJ232) – Optional Upgrade
  1. Technocrane Encoder Data
  2. Remote Head Encoder Data
  3. Open Port
  4. Open Port

Power

• 110 AC Rack Mount PDU

White Papers

 

 

• VFX By the Numbers: A Technical Introduction to Previzion