Studio 1 : walkthrough

Let’s take a look at Studio 1 from Virtual Studio Sets.com

It has three wide camera angles – one shooting straight ahead, one pointing to the left, and one to the right. There are three mid-shots – one in the centre, one left, and one right. And there’s an MCU you might find useful for additional close-ups.

There are two screens where you can add your own images or video. You can show or hide each screen – so you can use both, or just one, or none at all. The desk is also removable. And like all our studios, the skyline provided can be replaced with your own image or video.

The Photoshop versions give you LOADS of separate layers to play with. They’re all uniquely named, and correctly grouped together, so you can easily select single layers, or whole groups of layers.

All of the coloured sections are separate – so you can adjust the desk, the pillars, the floor riser, the curved light-boxes and the neon strips all independently to create infinite colour schemes of your own.

You also get separate layers for the railings behind the desk, the window frames, and even the glass in the windows, so you can turn these on or off to create even more variations.

Within the groups for the desk, and the floor riser, you’ll find all of the various reflections. We’ve included an opaque desktop layer, and an opaque riser layer, so you can hide all of those reflections completely if you like.

There’s also an extra layer where the floor is completely blank, in case you don’t want to use the riser section at all.

The PNG folder has a number of ‘quick-start’ backgrounds as usual, plus a folder called ‘layers’ which includes every SINGLE layer from the Photoshop file, saved as a separate PNG image with transparency. There’s a text file for each angle which lists the order the layers appear in.

The vMix versions come with two talent layers A and B, with real-time reflections. The wide angles come with FOUR vMix versions, one for each of the screen combinations. We also include an alternative config file which puts your talent in front of the desk layer, so they can appear to lean on the virtual desk. There’s another configuration file that removes the desk completely for standing talent.

The vMix sets all have a single ‘midground’ layer, with the colours as shown here – but you can use the original 4K Photoshop versions to create you own variations. Look out for the ‘vMix + Photoshop’ bundles which give you the vMix versions, PLUS the matching 4K Photoshop files.

A quick word about the TriCaster versions. These are basically Photoshop files that you can load directly into NewTek’s Virtual Set Editor, or VSE.
They have some extra layers and UV gradients for your Live Inputs, the skyline, and the screens. We’ve included the example screen and skyline images that you see here – but if you turn those layers off, you’ll find the Live Inputs behind them.

Some of the camera angles do have a lot of layers – so you might find it helpful to make some of your edits using Photoshop first, and then merge some layers together to make things simpler.