Making multi-angle sets

Every single-angle virtual studio from virtualstudiosets.com has a Photoshop file available for use with TriCaster VSE. If you decide to purchase a number of single-angle studios, it is very easy to combine them into a new Photoshop document, giving you all the camera angles you need in a single file.

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Hi there.

I’m going to very quickly show you how to combine several single angle Photoshop documents into one multi-angle set. You might want to do this if you need to load several camera angles at once into NewTek’s Virtual Set editor.

So – I’ve got three separate documents open here in Photoshop – they’re all from Studio 9 – there’s the left angle, the mid right, and the centre angle.

OK – the first thing I’d say is to make sure that you’re not opening these in tabs within Photoshop – I think it’s much easier to have them all separate so you can see exactly what’s going on.

What I want to end up with is a single Photoshop file with each of these as a separate group within the same document. I’ll start by choosing one of them – say, the ‘left’ angle – I’ll go Image > Duplicate. I’ll name that ‘multi’ – then OK – and this will be our new combined document – you’ll see it’s already got the Left angle in there – so I can close the original one. And now we want to drag the other two angles into our new document.

The first thing to do is to make sure that nothing is selected or highlighted in the new document – because we don’t want to drag this new group into the group that’s already there. So you just click at the bottom of the layers list to make sure everything’s deselected. Then I’m going to select the topmost group in this one, just to make sure I’m dragging everything. And then I hold down SHIFT. It’s important to hold down SHIFT when you’re dragging so it positions everything correctly in the new document – so shift and drag it, and let go and there it is. You’ll see we now have the ‘left’ angle group, and the ‘mid right’ angle group above it. Then I’ll deselect those – and do the same with the third one – hold down shift, make sure I’m definitely dragging that whole topmost group – and then drag and release it into the new document. And I’ll just close down those other ones so we can see what we’ve got.

It’s good. We have a single Photoshop file with those three camera angles as separate groups in the one file.

There’s just one more thing you might want to do if you’re using NewTek’s Virtual Set Editor with your TriCaster – and that is to let VSE know which one of those angles to load up first as the ‘default’ angle – and you do that by adding the word ‘Default’ to the name of that group.

That’s about it – hope that helps. As always, if you have any questions, please do get in touch.

Thanks for watching!