TriCaster Studio Virtual Sets

What are Virtual Sets?

Virtual sets can be as simple as a photo with the host or anchor keyed over the background. This 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. TriCaster STUDIO provides portable, live production, and allows all six inputs to have its own camera angle in the room. Like most virtual set systems, you can cut between angles, but STUDIO lets you fade or perform 3D transitions between angles.

NewTek has dramatically improved your access to affordable virtual sets with TriCaster STUDIO™. Unlike simpler live solutions, STUDIO 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 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. TriCaster STUDIO lets you stream live, to a worldwide audience.

SAVE TIME

Get it done now. Shoot for air, not for rendering later with STUDIO’s live virtual sets. This gives your talent the opportunity to interact with virtual monitors and desks.

Shooting in different studios no longer requires lengthy set-up and re-lighting. TriCaster STUDIO sets are all designed to operate from the same camera and lighting angles. This small, 16-pound box contains everything you’ll find in a TV live truck: switcher, titler, keyer, audio mixer, VCRs and more. This makes TriCaster field setup a snap. With all cameras having time-base correction and proc-amp adjustment, you can be show-ready in minutes.

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. 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. TriCaster STUDIO realistically inserts your talent into that environment without the construction costs or additional electronics purchases.

Integrated clip playback in STUDIO’s dual VCRs means the technical director can effortlessly roll in produced segments without the need to hire a videotape operator.

Contact Blaine or Sales at Video Hardware Services LLC to see this technology breakthrough first-hand, and you’ll soon be amazing clients as you warmly say, “Welcome to your STUDIO”.