Cinital Previzion Advanced 3D Virtual Set System

CinemaTech has an article about a startup company called Cinital that has developed a 3D keying system for virtual sets. This part is not new, as I have used Serious Magic Ultra 2 (now owned by Adobe) in the past for previewing the key on-set using virtual sets and images. I would not use Ultra 2 for compositing the final image as it did not offer nearly enough control over the final image, but this system looks like it offers plenty in that department.

Where this system really shines, however, is in the tracking system. I have not seen this anywhere else. You can move the camera about and rack focus from the foreground subject to the background and the virtual set will change accordingly. That is very time-consuming to perform in post production but this system does it in (almost) real-time. This is best illustrated by the video at the bottom of the CinemaTech link.

There are no pricing details on their web site but unconfirmed sources state that it is around $85,000.

[via HDForIndies]

Posted by Jon Chappell on Wednesday January 9 2008 4:24 PM to Compositing, Hardware, Visual Effects
Post ID: 128

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