Office Hours
Have questions? Found a bug? Join us for our thrice-weekly Office Hours sessions where we work with users in real time.
Sessions:
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday 9:00am-10:30am Pacific
Next Office Hour: 09/06/2024 @ 9:00 AM PST
08/26/2024
UE5.3 vs 5.4 script behavior for live render preview. Using Jetset for exteriors. Lowering on-set presence. ‘Overnight’ VFX daily generation. Real time tracking inside airplanes. Proximity of cine camera lens to iPhone. Where distortion makes sense in the pipeline. Calibrating anamorphics. Gaussian splats to convey correct lighting in-phone to creatives. New phone hardware for splat rendering. Rendering comps in-engine vs external compositor. Driving greenscreen lighting from live BG render.
08/27/2024
Debugging yellow reticule problem. A workflow for Canon RAW files before Autoshot can decode them. Media In node fragility with Resolve Fusion. On-set composite visualization workflows. Hybrid small wall/greenscreen workflows. Gaussian splats. Greenscreen depth occlusion settings. Shot templating. Interactive product visualization workflows.
08/19/2024
Verifying paths on Autoshot Mac. Setting survey points on SynthEyes and solving shots. External SynthEyes experts. Whether or not to solve for distortion. Using Jetset to previsualize stunt sequences. Making ‘shot templates’ to re-create pre-vis shots on set automatically. Using LiDAR scanners to scan a big location and bringing that into Jetset for 1:1 previs sequence planning.
08/16/2024
Interactive lens calibration. How panning on a tripod breaks lens calibration due to lack of parallax. Good choices for lens calibration objects. Calibration error text on the Mac that doesn’t hurt the calibration.
08/12/2024
Transferring Jetset Cine solved calibrations between PC and Mac Autoshot. Rendering in Omniverse with the USD export. A clever workaround for handling Canon RAW footage using lightweight mp4 editing proxies. Image planes in C4D. Live on-set previews of the Jetset UI.
08/09/2024
Rendering Cinema 4D shots in nVidia Omniverse via USD. Modifying the Autoshot pipeline to work with Resolve-generated EXRs. Best practices for editing Jetset Cine shoots. Resolve and Fusion editing and compositing workflow. The utility of tracking in a consistent 3D world. Generating a .csv of Cine source to Jetset take matches. Automatically entering Resolve metadata based on Autoshot take matching. Preferred scene locator alignment. Transferring takes with gigabit Ethernet connection.
