AOTO Targets Virtual Production with Premier LED Volumes
Michael Huang, PMP
Vice President of Sales, North America at Leyard | The Leading LED Solution Provider for Live Events | DOOH | Retail | Education | Transportation | Corporate | Billboards | Creative LED Walls
From AV Magazine:
AOTO’s product portfolio includes medium and large-scale LED virtual studio solutions for film and television shoots, plus smaller solutions for live streaming and smaller programs.
Since the emergence of the green screen in the early 1930s, there has been a steady stream of technological innovations on film and TV sets, including the Dunning Method and the Sodium Screen Process. But nowadays, virtual production is here to revolutionize filmmaking. With the rapid development of small-pitch LEDs and their increased use in a wider variety of applications, film and television making is entering a new era.
XR combines a high-performance LED screen, simultaneous capture, and real-time rendering with camera tracking. It allows for the creation of highly realistic content without further post-production. As a market leader in direct-view LED (dvLED) displays, AOTO is proud to deliver exceptional on-camera visual performance for virtual production (XR) and film studios.
Premium LED products (on the wall/floor/ceiling) replace the traditional green screen, allowing for quick content iteration, and creating immersive and dynamic shooting scenes. They combine perfectly with camera motion tracking to ensure accurate capture and make creativity infinite.
The AOTO XR LED Solution is capable of presenting reliable performance and quality content to the cameras, vividly simulating and mirroring various real-time environments for different scenes and constructing an XR stage to provide a dynamic virtual space for all types of creative expression. The physical and digital worlds are perfectly connected for music video shoots, DJ sets, or simply simulating flights into outer space, and the ‘real’ has evolved.
The AOTO team has delivered XR studios together with our partners in the UK and USA and is looking for clients to achieve the highest potential of XR, pushing the tech to the limit and performing at the bleeding edge.
The benefits of bringing virtual production to a set:
The LED virtual stage can assist producers in quickly creating and switching virtual scenes, whilst also modifying and adjusting the scene content in real-time and without the need to adhere to strict time limits. You can now review the shot immediately. No more waiting. This significantly enhances the efficiency of production and saves an inordinate amount of time in post-production.
1, Providing the greater creative possibility
When a virtual set is created by combining a massive LED volume and a 3D engine, the possibilities are only limited by the imagination. Virtual production enables more to be achieved in one location. Not only can backgrounds be changed and edited. You can make in-the-moment adjustments to the production, such as altering the time of day or weather, reshooting from any angle, or even turning a linear ad into an interactive experience. Real-world constraints can be bypassed so that it becomes feasible to create shots that would be impossible in the real world – you can literally change the angle of the sun if necessary.
2, Give the performer a fully immersive experience
It is possible for performers to engage with these digitally-created environments, and physical objects appear realistically in the virtual environment as well. Using camera tracking technology, the emphasis and perspective of the environment change as people move around the room while we capture it. It makes the entire experience more engaging and realistic for both the actors and the audience, while also allowing for extraordinary flexibility at the moment, and therefore better results for everyone involved.
3, Substantially reduces costs of time and money
For big productions, reshoots and post-production can account for 10-30 percent of production costs. Virtual sets save on travel, transport, and location whilst also reducing risk. Post-production compositing and rotoscoping are also minimized. Any assets developed in virtual production can be reused in the manufacturing of fresh episodes, allowing for even greater cost savings.
XR studio specifications
1, Medium and large-scale LED virtual studio
Suitable for film and television, TVC, variety show shooting, etc.
Medium-sized LED virtual studio with an area of 100 sqm-1,000 sqm, mostly around 500 sqm, with a background height of 10m-15m or so.
Large-scale LED virtual studio with an area of more than 1000 sqm,?with a background height of more than 15m.
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2, Small LED virtual studio
Suitable for live streaming,?small-scale program activities, etc.
Small LED virtual studios with an area less than 100 sqm2(such as 10m x 10m), and the background height is about 7m-10m.
AOTO attractive technologies
1, Mini LED?Moiré Reduction technology
AOTO has applied for dozens of patents worldwide surrounding the development of Mini LED technology, which has resolved many problems presented by traditional SMD solutions. This giant leap forward can nearly eliminate the moiré effect, achieve display uniformity and extremely high robustness, deliver much higher contrast, and provide a wider shooting angle of nearly 180°.
2, Superior color performance
The AOTO standard color gamut can accurately match the color gamut of the input source to deliver true and accurate restoration of natural colors from the industry’s leading camera technology. AOTO technology is compatible with Rec2020, Rec709, and DCI-P3 standards.
3, 24-bit grey-scale processing technology
AOTO achieves 24-bit grey-scale processing technology, delivering a true-to-life image quality with HDR experience, better presenting the level and details of the image, solving the matching degree of electro-optical curve in HDR implementation, improving the accuracy of point-by-point correction, while the correction granularity is smaller. This improves the display of low brightness and high gray.
4, LED display full-color control
The LED control system customizes the color (hue, saturation, brightness) and color gamut matching (DCI-P3BT2020) according to the 3D LUT of each shooting link device (LED color temperature lamp, dimming system, camera, etc.). This matches the tone of the movie.
5, Shot matching technology
The LED control system provides a high frame rate, high-speed scanning, and genlock functions centered on film and television shooting. It offers 24HZ~240HZ, frame rate matching; a high scan rate 1/6, a high refresh rate 7680Hz, to avoid upgrading to shoot black stripes; plus GenLock and phase shift control to avoid flickering during shooting. In addition, the frame field signal of the display screen is synchronized with the camera shutter.
Case study: Xon Studios
Pushing the boundaries of entertainment production, Xon Studios is one of South Korea’s leading virtual production and XR stage studios offering revolutionary creative solutions across film, broadcast, animation, VFX, motion design, and immersive entertainment. Xon Studios uses high-performing AOTO LED screens and Brompton Tessera processing for its giant LED volume as well as the latest UE, disguise, and Mo-Sys camera tracking to deliver its clients’ creative vision.
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2 年I appreciate how much focus and support Conner Loo and yourself are putting into virtual production!