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The next thing that shocked me was something called Invizigrain by the company InviziPro. It completely floored me.
It was something so new. Not some typical film grain overlay. It breaks apart the image and builds it up in very convincing film grain! I love the look of film and have been dying to find a way to bring it back. I met with the founder, Brendan Bellomo…
AV IN MOTION
The NAB Show (2022) is home to the world’s largest collection of vendors driving the future of media and entertainment. Following the new product announcements combined with our exhibition floor experiences we’ve made a personal list for the top twenty most innovative and important introductions and announcements.
Top 20
Rainbow 2 Series LED Lights (direct Art-Net and sACN input/control) by Quasar Science
Mars Camtrack by VIVE (HTC)
TRAXIS talentS (markerless stereoscopic talent tracking system) by Zero Density
DaVinci Resolve 18 (Studio) [Public Beta] by Blackmagic Design
P110 & P120 Full NDI PTZ Cameras by BirdDog
InviziTrak by InviziPro…
PRODUCTION HUB
If you've been following us for awhile now, then you're probably aware of our annual NAB Awards of Excellence awards.
The Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional technological innovation and practice. Each year, ProductionHUB editorial staff and industry experts collaborate to carefully vet and choose the winners. This year, as we continue to navigate the pandemic, we are conducting the entire awards process virtually. Award recipients are trailblazers in technological growth, products that help streamline workflows for film and video production, as well as advance the art of cinematography…
REDSHARK
Phil Rhodes pokes around the margins of the NAB 2022 show floor and unearths two gems on the one booth dealing with camera tracking and grain simulation respectively.
Quite a lot of the most fascinating little boutiques of film and TV technology are companies which employ just a few people, creating a minimum of bureaucratic friction between the idea and the show floor. Such is the case with the small area occupied at the NAB Show 2022 by InviziPro, a company offering what looks to be one of the best grain simulation tools around and a system designed to create laser tracking markers that are invisible to the camera.
What do those two things have to do with one another? Nothing, other than that someone perceived they were useful and nobody else got in the way of them becoming a reality…
NO FILM SCHOOL
Using pulsing lasers on a green screen saves hours removing camera tracking markers in post.
Recently at SIGGRAPH, I came across a new technology that could drastically reduce the amount of time it takes cleaning up green screen shots with camera tracking markers. You know, those marks that are needed for visual effects artists to gauge camera angle and depth for CGI? Since they usually appear as a different color, they have to be removed digitally before any meaningful CGI work can be keyed in. But with a new laser based camera system called InviziTrak, rotoscoping out your camera markers can be a thing of the past…