Virtual Production For Broadcast: Part 3 - Creative Image Capture October 12^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Virtual Production For Broadcast is a major 12 article exploration of the technology and techniques of LED wall based virtual production approached with broadcast studio applications in mind. Part 3 examines shooting locations for virtual production, creating virtual versions of real objects and motion capture.

Beyond RGB – Should We Use More Primaries? October 12^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Moving beyond the use of three primary colors could significantly increase the range of colors we can reproduce. There is no doubt it could improve the viewer experience but what are the barriers to adoption?

Motion Pictures: Part 5 - True Motion TV September 19^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Having looked at the traditional approach to moving pictures and found that the portrayal of motion was irremediably poor, thoughts turn to how moving pictures might be portrayed properly.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Lighting Tools For The Virtual World September 7^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

When conventional VFX are produced, there’s often a real-world lighting reference available. That approach can be used in virtual production, but increasingly, the director of photography might want or need to have some pre-production involvement in the development of a virtual world. The job may be familiar, but the t…

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Designing The Virtual World August 31^st 2023 - 10:00 AM

It is true that some of the key tools of virtual production are well-established in the world of computer entertainment, but the design constraints can be very different, demanding photorealism over smaller areas, as well as staging and layout that’s suitable for the proposed scene.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Requirements For The Well Planned Virtual Production August 24^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Virtual production brings new technologies and techniques so thorough planning and great team communication are key to achieving smooth production and the best results.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Part 2 - Production Planning, Virtual Worlds & Virtual Lighting August 10^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

Virtual Production For Broadcast is a major 12 article exploration of the technology and techniques of LED volume based virtual production approached with broadcast studio applications in mind. Part 2 examines production planning, designing virtual worlds and virtual lighting.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Video Wall Configuration July 27^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

How video walls for VP are built in detail. We discuss the fundamentals of the underlying technology as well as techniques to ensure proper colour rendering and avoid flicker while maximising frame rate and dynamic range.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Camera Setup, Tracking & Lens Data July 20^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Although we’re freer to use the camera and lens combination of our choice than we would be with traditional VFX techniques such as greenscreen, we discuss the changes that do need to happen around the camera, what information we generate, and how that informs the pictures rendered on the s…

System Showcase: Coverage Of 2023 Wimbledon Serves Up Latest Technical Wizardry On TV And Online July 18^th 2023 - 10:00 AM

This year’s coverage of the 2023 Wimbledon tennis tournament is the biggest and most comprehensive production ever for the event, starting with the hundreds of technical crew working on it.

An Introduction To Network Observability May 23^rd 2024 - 09:00 AM

The more complex and intricate IP networks and cloud infrastructures become, the greater the potential for unwelcome dynamics in the system, and the greater the need for rich, reliable, real-time data about performance and error rates.

2024 BEITC Update: ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Positioning Systems May 15^th 2024 - 10:00 AM

Move over, WWV and GPS. New information about Broadcast Positioning Systems presented at BEITC 2024 provides insight into work on a crucial, common view OTA, highly precision, public time reference that ATSC 3.0 broadcasters can easily provide.

Next-Gen 5G Contribution: Part 2 - MEC & The Disruptive Potential Of 5G May 14^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The migration of the core network functionality of 5G to virtualized or cloud-native infrastructure opens up new capabilities like MEC which have the potential to disrupt current approaches to remote production contribution networks.

Designing IP Broadcast Systems: Addressing & Packet Delivery May 7^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

How layer-3 and layer-2 addresses work together to deliver data link layer packets and frames across networks to improve efficiency and reduce congestion.

Next-Gen 5G Contribution: Part 1 - The Technology Of 5G April 29^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

5G is a collection of standards that encompass a wide array of different use cases, across the entire spectrum of consumer and commercial users. Here we discuss the aspects of it that apply to live video contribution in broadcast production.

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