ZEISS ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE HOW CINCRAFT SCENARIO CHANGES THE GAME • The most flexible camera tracking solution, working in all environments - LED walls, green screen and outside on location. • Can be used for real-time applications for virtual production, but also for any production that integrates VFX. • F ast plug-and-play solution for ZEISS lens users, reducing the time to set up and calibrate the system and removing need for a dedicated technician on-set. • R ecording camera tracking data on-set allows use with VFX software after the shoot, significantly reducing time spent in post. Time-consuming matchmoving workflows can be removed. • S tate-of-the-art user interface with a clean layout helps for setting up the hardware configuration and tracking. • A dditional tutorials help to educate operators that are new to the system, making it easy to learn and master. • C inCraft Scenarios' modularity, light weight and small footprint help users adapt to any camera rig set-up. Does not require extensive set-up of witness cameras around set. • W orks in studio, handheld, on jibs, rigs or Steadicam, and is fast to move and reconfigure from one set-up to another. Export is a separate software running on VFX artists’ workstations. It translates recorded herd files into formats readable by most common post-production VFX software such as Nuke and Blender. The software components allow for computing position and movement and recording the data, exporting the recorded data to industry-standard file formats and real-time inclusion in Unreal Engine. CinCraft Scenario camera tracking systems may be ordered in the near future, either in four preset bundles or individually configured. The solution will be available via select dealers as well as the ZEISS CinCraft website.
BEST-CASE SCENARIO Adding the compact ZEISS solution to your cinema camera can speed up post-production
has been a cumbersome and incredibly time-consuming process. But now virtual lens packages (VLPs) enable this process to be skipped entirely, providing all necessary lens characteristics for accurate tracking. VLPs will be available free for ZEISS Supreme Prime, Supreme Prime Radiance and CP.3 XD lenses. A paid software licence opens it up to CP.3, CP.2, Cinema Zooms, Ultra Prime and Master Prime optics. As with all software licences relating to CinCraft Scenario, these can be purchased for a week, month or year at a time, giving complete flexibility to ensure productions only pay when they need it. Before going to set, CinCraft Scenario allows the crew to simultaneously set up and pair the camera-lens combination, instead of requiring a dedicated camera tracking specialist. Integration of
record and export tracking data ensures it’s an ideal solution to traditional VFX.
Modular models Designed to work with off-the-shelf equipment, CinCraft Scenario is natively compatible with most major camera and lens encoder systems to provide all the data the system needs to track accurately and reliably. And it is built from several hardware and software components that can be individually configured to match each user’s needs on particular shoots. Scenario is the subscription-based software that operates the system, with the most intuitive user interface on the market, which can be accessed locally or from a smartphone, tablet or remote PC using web browser via CinCraft Link. It requires little set-up time and is plug- and-play when used with CinCraft VLP. The CinCraft CamBar module captures raw data from the camera and IR emitter, and sends it to CinCraft Origin. This runs the main Scenario software, which aggregates data to compute position and movement in real time. Wrangler records real-time tracking data and camera and lens metadata on the CinCraft Origin internal drive. Data is recorded with a proprietary herd file format that can be extracted using CinCraft Export.
CinCraft’s lens characteristics database has led to a redesigned user interface enhanced with wizards that guide users through the process. It’s quick and easy, and much more accessible for all VFX productions. The ability to
MIX AND MATCH System components can be individually bought for a custom set-up, but off-the-shelf packages are available
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