Our Studio was a HUGE waste of money - New Channel Launch!

[@LinusTechTips]

🕹GO WATCH GAMELINKED🎮: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6uyZ6Z5lNqep80

[@NoLoseJustLearn]

Why isn't this in the description???

[@allthecake]

Nice

[@Anonymous-qp5nq]

goat

[@FARBerserker]

Filian is gonna flip when she sees herself in one of your videos.

[@shaunkellison1761]

Linus audience: why are you building a giant studio for KZbin?? Do you know how big rumble is getting? KZbin has been caught in thousands of scandals involving US election interference and censoring information that benefits their investors in the pharmaceutical industry… Why would you invest in such a volatile business model? Linus: because, 81 million votes, bro. Where is your mask?

[@jeremywp123]

I can't wait to see what the community does with all these clips of Linus on a green screen

[@PrograError]

it's internet... it's like order 66... it will be done.

[@MangoMotors]

They should release it as a separate video on KZbin

[@astronemir]

The danger is real

[@Guds777]

They will draw dicks... :D

[@thelespauldude3283]

gon be lit finding the menes at 3am

[@lord_scrubington]

at this point LMG should just make a channel dedicated to talking about all their channels

[@OctagonalSquare]

Or kinda just the business side and how they all work together in their HQ

[@arial012]

this is like their 6th channel now?

[@gavinjones]

I guess floatplane sort of fits that definition because of all the bts

[@moisesarreola2649]

AHWU all over again

[@tomwilson2112]

Linus Meta Group. =)

[@StealthSecrecy]

Nothing beats a real set, but that is crazy good performance for a green screen set!

[@FLAIR__]

I'm honestly amazed at how well it works

[@danisaksson3214]

Especially for the mental health benefits.

[@queueeeee9000]

tbh, I was kinda lost when they were explaining the green screen stuff that happens on the black magic box thing. What's going to change (production-wise) for them, now that they have it? Can someone explain it like I'm 5?

[@tradingelk6914]

@@queueeeee9000 They can use the same "set" for more than one show

[@Xdgvy]

I agree. Nothing beats a real set. As cool as this is, I will miss real sets. I'll also be curious to see if I can see the difference.

[@mikouffins]

Andy looking around in circles awkwardly while people are adjusting his digital hair is a whole mood.

[@LRM12o8]

It looks so funny though. Almost like a sample NPC with a very basic test animation. How can one look so funny yet not awkward at all while just standing around and moving their head in a smooth, unnatural way like that? 😂

[@wrek]

This is gonna get memed

[@Oliver_JW]

Should have T-posed to assert dominance

[@pardonless]

What about Alex being half-naked behind that green curtain?

[@MrCroky123]

The video chapters are related to another completely different video. Hope Andy wasn't the culprit ... not that it would be something unexpected XD I mean, he could always blame his hair... p.s.: fixed it seems ... or was it a youtube conundrum ? No ! It was Andy !!!!

[@SHKAAL887]

Being a VFX guy who works in keying and deals with LED walls all the time, it's amazing to see this high end film tech spilling out into other content production workflows. Keying is never easy, and this is a fantastic middleground - I wasn't aware of the ultimatte kit!

[@HeIsHarsh]

How to LAUNCH A CHANNEL but while making your normal video. This is genius. Kudos to writers 👍

[@TheMelbournelad]

And it’s already blown past 100k subs

[@agunemon]

Plus it can tripple as an infovideo for new employees XD

[@steampunker8872]

The green screen live compiler thingie is honestly so cool

[@NoNameNinjaa]

Dude I'm a video editor and this is the JUICE I need to get that inspo. Loving the editors flexing their muscles a little Keep it up yall 💕

[@bok..]

I want to know the hardware is in that box. I like purpose built hardware

[@henriksundt7148]

@@bok.. You can do the same thing with a GPU on a desktop computer. It's just packaged nicely with video in/out in a box, and low latency. And they may have some proprietary algorithms.

[@digital0785]

as a vfx worker the detail on that is nuts , the hair definition and the refracted hand sanitizer and glasses is wild .. yea a cleaner green screen makes things easier but thats solid af. that would be so much work lol.. theres also a plugin for blender that does the camera data from your cell phone accelerometer

[@JGnLAU8OAWF6]

Can also use cheap drone flight controllers to log camera motion data.

[@a_d3mon]

accelerometers work ok (especially modern ones) but it's best if your phone has a gyroscope as well

[@JGnLAU8OAWF6]

@@a_d3mon i think all phones have both

[@a_d3mon]

@@JGnLAU8OAWF6 You would be wrong. A LOT of the cheap android phones lack a gyroscope and magnemeter but have an accelerometer. I had to do a TON of research before I got my current phone (Samsung Galaxy A51) because most of the models below it contained the bare minimum and the A51 was one of the cheapest and best options. Even with all the research I did, it made no mention of having a gyroscope. An A20/A21 both have only an accelerometer and a magnemeter and they're like $100 usd cheaper

[@HorizonOfHope]

As a vfx person, is it kinda incredible to you that part of their rig is a smartphone? To me that’s bananas. Shows how quickly tech is improving.

[@cupcakeobsession]

Cant believe how far Fillian has come to be featured on an LTT video! 🙌

[@TAMAMO-VIRUS]

Yeah, LTT was the last place I expected to see her. They have acknowledged the existence of vtubers a couple of times before by mentioning how some tech could be useful to them, but I did not expect to actually see one in a clip for B roll

[@cupcakeobsession]

@@TAMAMO-VIRUS Fillian's shenanigans have reached LTT's staffs for them to acknowledge her talent of breaking multiple VR equipments 😂

[@dergeneralfluff]

And I didn't expect Shondo's clipper here...

[@HeatDeathDestiny]

Ah, a fellow vtuber weeb

[@LemoncloudGT]

I didn’t expect filian to end up on a LTT video

[@0Rookie0]

I'm sure if you guys rang up Corridor Crew you could EASILY commission them to build you a workflow surrounding this tech. The LMG staff could quickly pick up on this but Corridor has been using this kind of advancement in video production for their whole channel's life. If anything I just want a collab about everybody geeking out at having a hybrid virtual production setup.

[@edusszfx]

As a VFX artist, I always wondered how they did this so well live! That's awesome! Also, great to see LTT move into virtual production!

[@tomkatdev]

wonder if they need any 3d / enviro artists on their team?

[@Shinkajo]

VFX surely?

[@TotalInsanity4]

Visual ectseff artist?

[@janpawedwa4590]

There is no other channel, where behind the scenes kind of videos overlap so well with the regular content.

[@minuspi8372]

LTT really found a perfect feedback loop, where their videos are about making their videos better

[@Bpinator]

@@minuspi8372 Agreed, and actually I love them

[@weirdg]

How in the world did Filian make it into an LTT video?! My worlds are colliding.

[@Allianser]

Cause her content is the best illustration of VRchat powers

[@SmokeandSpirit]

We probably have some Snackers on the inside. We've infiltrated the web.😂

[@SakuraChan00]

ikr was all wow she should of been tagged

[@weirdg]

@@Allianser Definitely some of the best out now.

[@nastyiceshorts6710]

@@SmokeandSpirit yup us snackers are everywhere. Filian pays us very well In fruit gummies 💯

[@BradyT918]

Filian clip is at 12:41. It's absolutely worth watching the entire video, though, to fully appreciate how much work Filian puts into her setup.

[@OleJanssen]

One thing you should definitely consider is that if you have lights in a virtual background, you also need to have set lighting in roughly the same location, as the shadows on the actor would look unrealistic if it's just regular greenscreen lighting with lights in the virtual background.

[@seangalloway5734]

Filian on LTT as an example was great. The editor is cultured.

[@ashuran9007]

No way they used filian as the example for motion tracking

[@dany0i]

Well, she is very mobile, so it's a good example.

[@Free_Spirit2001]

They totally did!!

[@xynonners]

someone in lmg editor team 😮

[@asanajp3981]

when does she appear? I had the video tabbed out

[@Jourei_]

@@asanajp3981 12:41

[@Lagrangeify]

This is a banger of an episode. It's got that typical Willy Wonka chocolate factory tour energy that I've taken for granted the last 12 years of watching Linus' team productions. At this point traditional media can't possibly hope to compete - how things have changed.

[@kobeandgary]

Traditional media can't compete with what...?

[@Nialligimino]

@@kobeandgary Apparently it can't compete with the tools and tech that it's already had for a decade or more...

[@kobeandgary]

@@Nialligimino lmao right? What a crazy comment.

[@kobeandgary]

@@cat-le1hf fuck are you talking about?

[@Adam-tt7kx]

@@cat-le1hf And also as on-demand as it could be

[@oggio47-_-46]

12:43 FILLIAN!!!!!!! LETS GOOO

[@adamnewton9053]

Love the future proofing of a set built in unreal. I doubt this would happen anytime soon but I wonder what it would be like to have something like this for a VR “WAN show” type thing

[@uexilon]

We did virtual production years ago in Unreal for cheap with a htc vive tracker (1gen). It‘s actually really easy and allows you to realtime comp it together^^ We did this at a convention with cosplayers. Maybe 50ms latency at max. Still got the project lying around somewhere in case anyone at LTT is interested^^

[@DVDplayerz]

That's what I was wondering. Why use the 5000$ vive thing when they could just as easily slap a regular vive tracker on the camera?

[@potatosordfighter666]

Tom Scott did a whole game show based around this idea 2 years ago. It was called disconnected. It also used LED panels so that the actor could be accurately lit by the scene itself so they would blend in even more naturally.

[@ntlespino]

@@biggSHNDO ... all at once? 😛

[@AltonV]

@@ntlespino everything everywhere all at once

[@frankmthompson]

I think the lighting it what is causing it to be off for me. It looks good, don't get me wrong, but he still looks like he's on a green screen. Not that it matters for this, but I would not say it's as good as a real set. I think the lighting could solve that though.

[@IzzyIkigai]

@@frankmthompson The lighting is off and the movement is also janky af. I almost spewed my lunch from looking at that virtual set...

[@mobiusflammel9372]

@@IzzyIkigai It's always been interesting to me how wildly people can vary in sensitivity to things like this. I wonder what the underlying reason for that is.

[@UnrivaledPiercer]

If this is what we get from Linus stepping down as CEO and letting his creativeness flow, sign me up. The acting in the intro was A+ quality.

[@GregStachowski]

He's so much happier and less stressed 😃

[@NeonCoding]

This video's probably been produced for weeks.

[@WayStedYou]

@@NeonCoding end of the video: are you sure about that

[@LightPink]

He's the CEO until July 1st

[@droppingpins6244]

It's not. He's still CEO right now.

[@johnmorrison4224]

On the issue of not matching hue due to lighting: You can dual sample. The manual for the Ultmatte12 covers this at the bottom of page 41

[@pyramear5414]

+1 for manual page reference.

[@iamKORHAL]

Love how happy Linus is nerding out over all this and educating us. Thx!!

[@granatmof]

I respect the content LTT puts out, but I always enjoy the Behind the scenes aspect more. Like they could have a blog series about daily logistics issues and I would enjoy it more than tech news or whatever.

[@jonny-b4954]

I've grown bored over the years honestly. I guess interests fade but I still watch a video occasionally when it pops up. I guess when it lost the Linus and couple buddies feel to it all, I kind of lost interest. I don't blame him though, I'd have cashed in with those millions too. Especially when it's doing something you enjoy.

[@patrickvballegooyen]

@@jonny-b4954I also don’t watch as much of LTT as I used to but If you like the whole Linus and his buddies vibe I strongly recommend the WAN show, if you don’t already watch it. It is basically just Linus and Luc chilling and talking about stuff for 3 to 4 hours. I sometimes will go months without watching any normal LTT videos but I always make sure to watch the weekly WAN show stream or at least the recording.

[@Vysair]

yeah, we learnt a lot about computer back then bcuz linus do behind the scene on tech a lot. Now it's the infrastructure

[@jonny-b4954]

@@patrickvballegooyen Yeah, that's pretty much most of my content nowadays. The videos its just them chillin and the videos have bookmarked topics. I dig that. Best feature YT has done in years.

[@andrewjmarx]

This is cool. Nerdforge also released a video recently that shows how they updated their set to incorporate Unreal 5 and camera tracking, but with a more hybrid approach where they still have a set but render a 3D scene on a tv behind a window frame to make it seem like there is an outdoor area behind the set.

[@jacobstanley7089]

Potato jet Did something similar. His camera and workflow videos are second to none

[@michaelverhoef5443]

Linus is looking more relaxed and happier these days. Good job hiring his boss!

[@EoRdE6]

The CEO literally hasn't even started work yet so you're just imagining it.

[@samlevi4744]

He’s still the boss. Lol.

[@--_DJ_--]

@@EoRdE6 Knowing he doesn't have to keep it up forever might ease some stress, but I don't notice him being any different than before the announcement.

[@samlevi4744]

@@EoRdE6that and calling Terren Tong a CEO is a bit dishonest. His role is properly described as CAO with potentially some COO work added in. At the end of the day, Linus is the one with ultimate decision making authority. Terren can’t override him if Linus says “no, we’re not doing that” or “we’re doing this, make it happen.”

[@LtdJorge]

​@@samlevi4744 that's called being a shareholder.

[@JoCaTen]

I was not expecting Filian, so not expecting Filian

[@HollywoodEDC]

@LinusTechTips I was apart of the Crew that helped build "The Volume" LED Video Wall for Lux Machina and the crew of Mandalorian. If your company ever wishes to explore that avenue and use LED + D5 Switchers for Motion Tracking and Integration please reach out. I would love to come down to Vancouver and help you guys set-up a legit video wall. I have contacts with ROE and various LED companies to this day. Not to mention I could help you guys get the proper rack mounted equipment to facilitate a day-to-day studio operation. Anyways, it was fun to watch this video and I am glad you guys are expanding and growing! I've been a life time fan and still work in the film industry to this day (IATSE Local 600 + IATSE Local 80 Studio Grip).

[@babyzdog4324]

Props to andy for being the perfect npc during the greenscreen explanation 👏

[@NightFoxZero]

Cool to see LTT finally start getting into virtual production. Using unreal or unity with some trackers or Rokoko mocap suits have become a super “affordable” low barrier entry for content creators in the short film space (like what corridor crew shows off to everyone) and especially Vtubers. Side note: absolutely hilarious that Filian is the example used XD

[@StreetPreacherr]

Linus should just invest in one of those 'VOLUME' production setups like they use for all the new Disney+ TV shows!

[@JohnLasseter-ct5in]

@@StreetPreacherr Bruh did you watch the video? He literally talks about it, but it's way too expensive

[@filianenjoyer9957]

12:43 man, seeing Filian on a Linus video wasn't on my list today.

[@rakshitsinghal3527]

ikrrrrr

[@HeatDeathDestiny]

Not the gift we asked for, but the gift we neededd

[@syan2240]

Lol

[@APS_Inc]

I was not expecting a Fillian cameo in this video.

[@Respectable_Username]

I love how much fun it seemed all the other employees were having in the background!

[@random-vids112]

I’m glad to see LMG grow so much! Edit:this is the most likes I have ever gotten on a comment

[@JoshWhitford91]

Right?! I remember watching him review the lan-boy air while sitting on a park bench!😂

[@kiari1995]

@@JoshWhitford91 i used to be dissapointed by the bulldozer reviews x.x

[@kiari1995]

@@JoshWhitford91 then i got the 1100t be :O bonkers to have 16 gigs and a 6 core in 2011 (2012) forreal

[@JoshWhitford91]

@@kiari1995 I still have my bulldozer chip 😅. Gonna make an acrylic case to make a history wall along with my fried hd7900 😂

[@r2d2fish72]

Here's a fun trick: if you want to get the intrinsic parameters for your camera/lens combo and they aren't available online, 3D scan some object with the camera (take photos from various angles) and reconstruct it in colmap (set camera model to FULL_OPENCV and make all images use the same camera). Be sure to refine the principle point once the reconstruction is done. You now have extremely precise camera distortion parameters you can apply to any vfx stuff you render to get a perfect match

[@brettcameratraveler]

Nice :) Can you explain how this differs and improves upon the traditional checkerboard technique?

[@thekwoka4707]

I was almost expecting virtual production with giant led panels.

[@mariotriforce]

​@@marcogenovesi8570well good for realistic lighting on actors & good for previz but ya everything gets recomped in post 😅

[@aronseptianto8142]

yeah i thought this was the time linus rationalized the purchase of the microled wall he has been wanting

[@user-pd1gl8tf3d]

@@marcogenovesi8570 funny you say that, the company I work for makes the hardware that drives these LED walls. While it may have flaws, it can save time in post production. The whole low light situation depends on what camera settings they use. The panels can be driven over 4000 nits but can the camera handle it and still capture the actor and background? For example, they want to use prime lenses, lower f-stop to get DOF effects.

[@Yay295]

@@marcogenovesi8570 An OLED without the LED seems like it could work? Not that anyone makes that.

[@wd40addict]

@@marcogenovesi8570 To each their own. I think it looks much better than all green screen in movies. I watched 1899, fully done with led pannels and I loved the look.

[@mayuravirus6134]

At least the editors used some successful Filian flips it would be pretty bad if they didn't

[@tofuhero90000]

Thumbnail predicted the future

[@atroxic128]

Linus’ employees: Our workload is too big, I wish we could put out less videos that we work harder on Linus: I know just the thing

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

​@@jjann54321 They don't "want" more, they NEED more. 90% of their content is heavily reliant on releasing it as soon as possible. Product reviews, news, and their podcast content. Also, why throw a jab like that? Far as anyone's concerned LMG properly compensates for people's hard work whenever they need to crunch. And something like this quite literally avoids those extra hours in the first place, so I don't understand what you're getting at in the first place.

[@alwaysfallingshort]

This workflow is so inspiring, reminds me of doing live video editing back in the 90s, but not at all.

[@justthisweeb]

didn't expect the fillian clips in 12:42

[@JusttimelessYT]

Ikr I watch her shorts lol

[@a_d3mon]

13:35 Small note for Android phone tracking. It's best to have a built-in gyroscope (in a lot of flagship phones such as the Galaxy S but not in all android phones), accelerometer (it's in most), and a magnometer (again, in a lot of flagship phones but not all androids) for real world tracking to work properly. If you have an accelerometer it can work ok (drifts off track FAST), accel and mag and it works decently (drifts quickly but not as fast as just an accelerometer), and all 3 works great (still drifts but it is more gradual and takes a while due to how gyroscopes work)

[@gingerjake2936]

This type of thing is also done in robotics. My FIRST Robotics Competition team has been working on using a camera to locate markers called AprilTags to find where the robot is located on a field, and using that in the 15 second autonomous period where drivers can't control the robot during matches. (Though we haven't gotten it working yet, still working on the code :P)

[@grant5227]

The rendered green screen backgrounds still look a bit off, but pretty darn good for non-blockbuster movie quality green screening. There's motion blur that doesn't look quite right when moving and lighting issues. But I bet as the editors work with it more it'll get even better!

[@AvatarRishi]

As a production nerd myself, I loved seeing the BTS of how you guys work on these shows! I love Blackmagic's stuff.

[@KyleClements]

That plastic soap bottle demo was amazing! This thing seems to composite better than most keying filters I've played around with. Can you run old, pre-recorded footage though this thing for the same effect?

[@jonwhittaker6307]

why not

[@Robert08010]

The big question is one of compression. If you used hi compression on that raw footage, you will have difficulty using any method to remove the green screen. But if you have raw footage with very little compression, it could work well. High compression with cause a lot of artifacting around the edges.

[@GrapplerBakii-hm6yw]

I dont understand whats so odd about it keying transparent object, its still green

[@istoleyourcoffee]

@@GrapplerBakii-hm6ywnuances in the reflections, changing of the shade of green as the bottle isn’t 100% transparent (look at the liquid and the thicker portions of plastic), and no obvious artifacts are incredibly convincing. It’s not just “removing green” as they say in the video.

[@GrapplerBakii-hm6yw]

@@istoleyourcoffee Its actually not that hard unless you are having a object that actually changes the chroma of the backround, like dark sunglasses for example. For reflections its just a despill. There are techniques to get a fairly good key (about as good as this or better, depending on lighting scenarios). You can simply despill the green, then you remove the original bg from the despill one (BG-DESPILL) that leaves you with only the despill. Desaturate the despill and multiply this over your BG. And at the last step screen you despilled plate over the BG. What would be very mindblowing is if the hardware you deal with multiple colours of greenscreens and seams as in AAA movie production. Would love that.

[@elgoog-the-third]

@10:09 we had photo stations in 2002 here in Switzerland at the Expo.02 that already did that - some of these even didn't have a static background, just the view out. You'd have to move left-to-right and a bit up/down to "wipe" the entire area for it to detect what the background is, but once you did that, the result was awesome. No idea what happened to that tech, but apparently it was not that expensive even back then. Otherwise they couldn't have afforded about two dozen such photo stations to take photos and email them.

[@dragonhart6505]

So it’s quite similar to what I did in LIV on my Oculus Quest…no green screen, just a spacious enough clean area, a phone stand with a studio light and my goofy ahh bouncing around in front of my iPhone 12 Mini wearing a stupid white visor. Messed around some to get it working standalone (without the VR grip tracking) and it worked out really well. Would take a lot more choreography to do something on the scale you folks are, but a whole new world of creative possibilities still lay out there for us small time

[@jonludwig1632]

This is such a great "intro to virtual production" video. Kudos to ya'all, great workflow.

[@TheSwedeLander]

Cool tech! I'm interested to see where the technology goes in the future. I also find it hilarious how at the end of the video, it says "Thursday 06/28/2023" when today is Thursday the 29th. Somebody in editing must not have been paying attention to the calendar too closely. 😆

No no, it’s the 6th day of the 28th month. I mean no one would put the month before the day, would they? 🙃

[@gamersdontdie5360]

New gaming news channel? Finally, a consistent source of good gaming news that can be trusted! Thanks Linus!

[@wheredaboof6492]

Gameranx

[@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjenson]

Linus has been teasing Gamelinked forever now; can't wait

[@rakeshraja6549]

Gameranx,spawn wave,skillup

[@Bob_Smith19]

Gameranx exists. More options is always better.

[@Anecthor]

SkillUp?

[@Flitzpiepe3000]

I'm in the broadcasting / tv production industry for almost two decades now and it's really amazing to see what you can achieve on a budget these days. camera equipment 7 figures, posptro equipment 6 figures, recording equipment 5 figures - all gone. Doesn't only makes me happy because now also cinematic enthusiasts also get to make content with a high production value - I'm a line procer so it also makes my job much easier.

[@svpracer98]

I think I've seen your "qr" code looking things earlier this year... If I'm not mistaken, they are called April Tags, developed specifically for fast image recognition/ processing. The competitive robotics program I run a team for just switched to them this year instead of retro reflective tape.

[@NameWasStolen]

Filian on LTT! She just keeps wining!

[@web1bastler]

I wonder who's the snacker at LMG

[@scaredyfish]

The one thing that gives it away as a green screen is lighting. If your on-set lighting can match the digital set it will integrate almost seamlessly.

[@George_vv]

I think the movement definitely has to be worked on to look more convincing. It looked incredible for two seconds but as soon as the camera started doing more complex movements, it looks like the background was really struggling to keep up. Definitely really cool though.

[@petrolhead0387]

Props to Andy for being an amazing NPC.

[@zilox7851]

9:50 omg I've always wanted a solid answer on how NBA and sport streams have sponsors that arnt actually painted on the court while still having players run around and it composites it perfectly.

[@fozzy6632]

Linus once again with his shenanigans. Looking forward to the new channel!

[@Jason-mk3nn]

It is nice to see some more in-depth chroma-key coverage. Blackmagic Design has been and is constantly pushing production on almost every front forward.

[@shawnrhode]

Blackmagic is great kit. I only have a couple of issues with them (Blackmagic) (these are personal peeves and purely opinion): 1) Their website is a pain to use. The support site layout is not intuitive and finding what you are looking for is a guess factor within a given product line (want the documentation applicable to the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K? Scroll down and maybe you will find a doc dedicated to the line or maybe not. What a document applies to often isn’t clear.) 2) This leads me to my second peeve. Their documentation isn’t great. All the docs look the same and cover the same stuff. Anything remotely complicated or advanced isn’t covered and you are left to hang and dig yourself. Want to find out what a DVE is and how to use it? Look no further than the DVE section in the doc where it might tell you what DVE stands for and that you use it for that purpose. And stop. That’s it. No more details, no examples, nada.). 3) Some of their gear makes a lot of noise. We had an ATEM Television Studio HD that sounded like a small jet while running. I looked it up and there is an iFixit article that covers replacing the small fans with matching Noctua fans that cost a small amount of money and effectively making it silent. Recently we needed to upgrade to an ATEM Constellation 2/ME, a much more recent model. And what do I find? Another small jet plane when it is running. Come on Blackmagic. Please spend more than $5 on the fans in these units. A good fan is quieter, more efficient, and more effective for not much more money. Having said all that, we are still going to be using their gear because the competition in that space and at those price ranges is practically non-existent.

[@colinstu]

14:23 ah yes… Thursday the 28th… (should be 29)

[@khazm2k]

TFO, the French public tv in Ontario has created a Virtual set a while back and actually rents it out. That could be a cool topic to show the technology. They're located in Toronto!!

[@konrad7492]

This videos editing and script is a sudden and unexpected major step-up, feels like some TV people got involved into production, great job

[@theejackalope]

Virtual products are so cool! I've been fascinated with it since corridor did it. It's really interesting how it's become so accessible to smaller creatives

[@jax1670]

I don't think it will be very long before LTT could outsource production for other creators/companies

[@okaydetar821]

Why would they ever do that though?

[@raistlinmajere1000]

Maybe with the increasing number of videos and projects. They have more than 100 employees and they have recognised it is hard to meet the number of videos per week (25 I think)

[@patemathic]

They have in the past. They produced some ads for some companies, but sadly I can't recall any names off the top of my head.

[@ParadoxalDream]

uh... they're barely able to handle their own workflow, why would they add other creators' work on top of that?

[@RyanTaylor03]

@@ParadoxalDream I could see them selling services such as video editing, scripting, labs testing, as they expand to a multi-hundred employee company there will be more employees dedicated to the quality of each production, but once that gets to the point there's enough staff to comfortably handle all current and upcoming LMG channels, they'll have capacity to offer those services, and because of the reputation for great quality they've got it'll be easy to charge a heavy premium. That's almost full contract production house type work, especially if these greenscreen sets get implemented into a workflow efficient enough. Imagine a customer brings a script and some hosts, hops onto a greenscreen, shoots their video, it gets a set background added to it, the full script and storyboard gets sent to an editor as the shoot is being recorded for a near real-time workflow, and an hour after shooting a finished extremely high quality video is produced. Say this gets optimised down to only 4 manhours, say each staff member gets $100 an hour as an exaggeration. A normal production house would probably charge high 4 to 5 figure bill due to the manhours, but LTT get to charge a similar rate but at a much higher profitability. It's got the ability to scale to run in parallel if they're being contracted by other companies Extreme hyper speculation, but a cool future to imagine.

[@fab1604]

Even tho, thanks to Captain Disillusion, I already knew (almost) everything about this subject, it's so cool to watch this thing working its magic live while you guys explain it, good luck with your new channel!

[@Livaco]

Still waiting for Emily's Linux channel.

[@nikkiisntdum257]

Linux tech tips

[@NovusTerminus]

Honestly as an indie film maker, I love these tech breakdowns on their filming tech.

[@Howfinity]

thanks for the cameo 00:00:45

[@BakesKamuari]

Having a dedicated gaming show is amazing bc I don’t watch the full wan shows bc mostly looking for gaming news and having a full show dedicated to it from you guys is amazing.

[@-TheFacelessGamer-]

11:35 I have a friend who works in a multi million dollar studio with giant video wall almost like that. His cousin owns the studio and people rent rooms in it and network. They have worked closely with the Unreal Engine teams to fix issues they've encountered when setting up the motion tracking and all with UE5, the video wall, and cameras. It was insane when he showed me it all. It doesn't fully wrap around the room but it's like half way around the room.

[@charliekealoha]

Man. BMD has come so far from the last time I was working in broadcasting. So damn COOL!

[@Smaht_Mahty]

Whoever scripted this one did an amazing job. Definitely a departure from other videos I’ve seen. Really great.

[@sokol1235]

WOW thats Filian😁😁 12:43

[@R0gue1gNite]

Really happy for myself and everyone else who loves watching you guys, having a gaming channel is so sweet!

[@tparadox88]

Virtual sets are amazing now next to what was available to us when I was in school a decade ago, and that was already really neat. I was crew on a student TV show that used a virtual set by the time I was finished, but it was all set up so that none of us really had to worry about it beyond keeping the on screen talent from getting close enough to the backdrop to cast shadows. Also one advanced production class I had I was offered a script the instructor thought would be a good use of the virtual set and he'd match my team with an architect, but we decided that learning VS stuff on top of the zero gravity stuff in the script would be too much for our shorthanded team.

[@Oliver_Saer]

I can see a future where the LMG studio is just a series of sound and light controlled green screen booths. I watched this video after seeing the first GameLinked episode and was impressed that they splurged on all of the (what I assumed to be Titan Tube) background lights. If the future of LMG is genuinely going to be a larger collection of smaller channels, this approach could make a lot of sense.

[@galiojusticejustice3191]

I wasn't completely sold at first because knowing it's a green screen, it isn't too hard to see small details that make that obvious, but the hand sanitizer bottle thing is insane.

[@WilliamFaucher]

So awesome to see LTT using Unreal! Looking forward to seeing more of this :)

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

They could probably fit an entire city in there and here I am struggling to find space for a bowl of cereal in my tiny kitchen

[@StarGateSG7]

I used to use Ultimatte waaaaaaay back in the day when it was $250,000+ USD for a full setup! The CPU/GPU system usually uses 10-to-16 bits per RGBA pixel channel (40-bit to 64-bits per RGBA/YCbCrA colour pixel) and COMBINES a chroma key (i.e. choose a specific colour to key out), a luminance key (i.e. choose a specific brightness level to key out) and an Alpha Channel Key (i.e. key out objects in side of or outside of where edges occur) in order to get rid of artifacts. The Green screen is of a specific brightness level AND the CHROMA value (aka the Colour or Hue value) of the green screen background lets you tell the computer to find all occurrences of the GREEN background that have a specific colour brightness level and replace it with a still photo, moving video or computer animated imagery. To remove the artifacts on the edges, you use 2D-XY SOBEL or CANNY edge detection to find the EDGES of the person or object that is placed in front of the screen and those edges can be further examined and replaced with 2 to 5 pixels of inverse-squared blurring and pixel feathering that allow you to add any SHADOWS on the outside edges to make the front object stand out better from the overlaid still photo, moving video or computer animation that was overlaid on anything green within the background. SOBEL and CANNY edge detection are VERY good at detecting edges, but it does need SUPERIOR HARDWARE acceleration which was very expensive back in the day which is WHY in the 1990's it $250,000 USD for a Production-Quality Green Screen! Today in 2023, because of SUPER FAST CPUs and GPUs, the RGBA Chroma and Luminance keying combined with SOBEL and CANNY edge detection lets you create super smooth green-screen keys and compositing with even full motion 4K live video! It is actually REMARKABLY EASY to create your own combined Chroma, Luminance and Alpha Channel-based 2D-XY SOBEL/CANNY edge detector keyer using PURE software-based code! I coded and then put out my own 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 bits per RGBA/YCbCrA channel version to the public domain a few years ago using C/C++, Object PASCAL and JAVA source code and MANY manufacturers now use that code in their own products! I wouldn't be surprised if Black Magic uses all or parts of my code in that box now! Now You Know! V

[@joshhasnogame]

As a big TV production geek I find this fascinating. It’s amazing how far we’ve come. I remember doing Chromakey as a teenager on Video Toaster in the 90s and this stuff is just wow.

[@blind_judiciary]

12:47 it's Fillian

[@dudeguy1894]

12:42 Oh hey it's the fruit snack goblin!

[@basedhomosapien]

I hope they still put out techlinked at night. For some reason, I really like it

[@kylebowles9820]

love the camera tracking parts, I do those algorithms for augmented reality

[@TeaOS]

As a video professional I've been able to tell you guys we're doing green screen on a couple a roll shots for months now but it's really cool seeing the tech behind it. The fact that black magic makes something that cheap when I've been doing purpose but Rex for the stuff that cost three times the price for a decades is insane

[@migbess]

4:09 that's a way to put it

[@freehugzhere865]

11:58 literally made my day. I couldn't stop laughing 😂

[@BrianAnim]

It's nice seeing Ed back in the videos!

[@GroundZer0000]

No.

[@TAMAMO-VIRUS]

@@GroundZer0000 Yes.

[@JaredLodwickDesign]

Super cool to see this virtual production setup. One thing, though. The example of the "TikTok" filter using body segmentation to turn the person into a colorful illustration is actually an Instagram filter... that I helped make :P

[@DctrGizmo]

Yo that was Filian! This is so cool!

[@IanZainea1990]

7:27 just wait til you ahve a blonde stand against a green screen,

[@marcel1463]

I loved all the different studios you have created.

[@SaataAndagi]

a REAL contender to truly challenge techlinked's mighty throne

[@Loki128]

The BBC used more-or-less exactly the same system for the set design for the studio during their coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. There's a video on the BBC Sport KZbin channel (not sure if it's available internationally - I'd link it here but I'm also not sure if links are permitted, though it's easily found in a search). In their explanation they say it's "the same engine which produces Fortnite", which is obviously Unreal Engine. Instead of using Vive trackers / ARKit, they used infra-red cameras which pointed up at locators on the ceiling. The end result looked really good on live TV. They still use it for the studios during other sports events, so they can easily change the set to match the event. Their video is not as technical as this, but it's still worth a watch if you're interested in this stuff.

[@emertonom]

There are folks in the VR community who were doing camera tracking with regular Vive trackers several years ago in order to film mixed reality footage for streaming (like, composite their real bodies into the virtual footage from VR games). I'm pretty confident you guys could get that kind of Vive tracker working for way less than the $5000 pro ones. Might even be easier than integrating with ARkit, and it would almost certainly give better results than the fiducial tracking. Just something to think about.