Virtual Studio Sets : quick start guide
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1 : Adding a background image, and changing the skyline.
In this first video I show you how to use the ready-made backgrounds that come included with our ‘Photoshop / PNG format’ virtual sets.
(more about file formats here : Virtual Set Tutorial : file formats).
All our virtual sets are available as a multi-layered Photoshop document, and you also get separate PNG images for each layer, plus at least one ready-made background where all the layers are already merged into a ‘quick start’ single image.
This example uses the ‘Left’ camera angle from Studio 5. Every one of our main studios will have a ‘Photoshop/PNG’ bundle which comes with at least one ‘quick start’ background, as well as all of the individual layers.
2 : Building a virtual set using individual PNG layers.
This next example shows you how to build up the background from scratch using all of the available image layers.
This will work for most video editing packages like After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve – basically any software that lets you add multiple image layers to your timeline.
This tutorial uses the ‘mid’ angle from Studio 4 here – and you’ll see it up and running in under 3 minutes.
The layers are in PNG format – which means they are all original (lossless) quality, and compatible with pretty much every graphics and editing package out there (I’m using After Effects as an example).
Also – remember that TriCaster users can import their Photoshop version directly into NewTek’s Virtual Set Editor and make their changes there instead. Every studio is available a regular Photoshop version PLUS all the various layers in PNG format included.
Hopefully you can see these sets are very easy to get up and running – but they also offer amazing customization options!