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Lighting the way Adrian Jeakins, director of engineering at Brompton Technology, explores the evolution of virtual production – highlighting its challenges and advancements L ike most new ideas, virtual production (VP) began as an innovation demanding a lot too excited about it being the future of production overall. Now, we’re seeing a bit of maturity; people have been on a VP stage at some point so it is no longer a complete mystery.” That early complexity was linked to
from its users. Over time, advancements in techniques have made the technology more user-friendly. However, for director of engineering at Brompton Technology Adrian Jeakins, the interface between giant video displays and the world of cinematography still provokes a fair amount of hard thinking. As a supplier of processors designed to interface LED video wall panels to video sources, Brompton’s technology has a huge influence over the capabilities of a VP stage. Jeakins’ own background includes R&D work at VFX house DNEG, experience which he says provided some understanding of how the film industry in general operates. ”When people started getting into VP, they got a bit
some massive names, Jeakins reflects. “When it started – with Disney doing The Mandalorian and ILM probably being the leading VFX house in the world – that was the brains you needed to make this tech work. It is now a bit easier than that and the barrier to entry is a bit lower, which is great. As everyone has been taking technology not designed for VP and using it for that purpose, we’ve been trying to make our part of it as accessible and well-optimised as we can.” Part of that optimisation has involved controlling exactly how an image looks when displayed on an LED video wall – a
Brompton Technology is a recipient of a Definition Virtual Production Excellence award, in recognition of its game-changing, market-leading LED processing products, which continue to reach new heights of quality, innovation and reliability. Find out more at bromptontech.com
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