FEATURES

Trackless virtual studio system

• No expensive camera motion trackers required
• Seamlessly integrate live talent with 3D virtual set in real time
• Multiple virtual camera display & switching
• Easily programmable 8 virtual camera positions
• Variable motion speed or virtual cameras

Real Time hardware base 3D rendering

• No pre-rendering of 3D virtual sets
• Render complex 3D scenes in real time
• Powerful hardware engine to render full anti-aliased scenes

Live & pre-recorded source input & output

• 2 full D 1 resolution live video inputs in SD
• Pre-recorded source input in AVI, MPEG & MOV compression formats in SD
• Dynamically update input source
• On-line output capturing in Mpeg2 or AVI format

Media Gallery

• On-screen Media Gallery for organizing the graphic and movie clips
• Organized file scattered in different hard disks is separate categories
• Edit the content of them in a non-destructive way

Live Streaming

• Built-in single-click live streaming facility
• Take advantage of the wide audience

Advance Chroma keying

• 3 different levels of chroma keying
• Shadows on the background removed very efficiently
• No color spills or spatial effect
• Performs extremely well even with non-professional equipment

Text crawl and Bitmap file overlay & update

• Dynamic foreground overlaying module
• Overlay 32 bit images & text instantly
• Create and display text crawls in multilingual fonts
• Update on-line through the client-server solution

User friendly GUI for easy operation

• Very easy-to-use GUI reduces operator training time
• Mouse-over preview of live & pre-recorded input sources
• Simple drag and drop operation

An affordable virtual studio solution

• Same studio space to be used for multiple productions
• Small studios, as large as 10 x 10 square feet required
• No physical sets required
• Better man-power utilization
• Saves time, space, money and energy
• Library of ready-to-use sets

Application areas

• News, sport cast and talk show programs
• Game shows, entertainment programs, music videos
• Creation of advertisement and promotional clips
• Virtual classrooms for distant learning systems
• Corporate in-house presentations and training
• Highlighting business and political events

ADD-ON FEATURES

Reflection

Reflection is an advanced add-on features for the Virtual On Air system.

Thanks for the powerful rendering engine of Virtual On Air System, this plug-in allows reflections to be rendered in real-time. This feature lend a more realistic and natural look to the video production process.

Reflections are an eye-catching visual effect. They bring a whole new dimension to the environment. It delivers a sense of reality at a whole new level.

Shadows

Shadows create an illusion of depth, it makes a flat page appear three-dimensional and help to determine the Spatial Relationship between Live Talent, 3D objects and Backgrounds.

When use in the Virtual On Air system, shadows can add contrast and can help lead the eye to specific areas, tying Live and Virtual elements together seamlessly as if they were physically in one and the same space.

Virtual On Air offers a perspective shadow to deliver a more realistic element to the virtual set. Through Rotation, Stretching and Skewing you can cast shadows similar to those cast by the sun or multiply light sources.

Shadows are properly combined with the texture of the object that they fall on to, and assume the profile of the object. Shadows can be colored and modified to a varying degree of opacity and sharpness.

Automation for Media/Audio Switching & Playback

Virtual Set Production, incorporates Multiple video feeds.

Virtual On Air offers 2 full D1 Resolution Live Video inputs and 2 Media Bins as pre-recorded sources in AVI, MPEG & MOV formats in Standard Definition.

In additional to the video, Virtual On Air offers a Dynamic Foreground Overlaying module which allows Graphics files to be overlaid or Mapped on the virtual set enhancing the virtual set production with information.

The two Media Bins deliver video clips as source inputs.

While one video clip is displayed, the other clip file in the second media bin is readied in standby mode. These clips can be instantly taken to air by switching between the two video clips, or between live source and media bins. This is achieved by mouse or keyboard shortcuts thus eliminating the need of an external switcher.

Automation allows you, in a single keystroke, to move from one virtual camera position to another, switch video clips, switch/fade audio inputs of live and media files going on-air simultaneously.

Thus a single operator can handle complex simultaneous operations of camera movement, video switching, audio mixing/switching and playing media files with ease resulting in a lower manpower count and a stress free broadcast production environment.