First 4K Ultra High Resolution Virtual News Set

First 4K Ultra High Resolution Virtual News Set

Green screen backgrounds store CG4TV.com is starting to add 4K ultra high resolution virtual sets into CG4TV virtual sets catalog.

One of the first 4K Ultra high definition virtual set

Check out this new product, the Financial News Background in 4K at http://www.cg4tv.com/virtual-set/financial-news-green-screen-background-chromakey.html

The virtual set store CG4TV.com offers various high quality products for broadcast TV and video professionals. Products can be purchased separately or as a packages in different resolutions including 4K. The price is shown for every product. All their products are royalty free.

Products include: virtual sets for news, animated  backgrounds, 3D images and 3D animations. The most popular products are the virtual sets and 3D animations.

The store does not have resellers so all products are exclusive and used by major TV channels worldwide. The store has been around for over 5 years.

All products are conveniently available for immediate download.

 

New service launched: bundling virtual sets, intros and lower thirds!

We are proud to announce that we have launched a new web site to allow beginning, advanced and  video professionals to get access to a variety of low cost broadcast quality products.

Click to visit our new Virtual Set Store! 

This site will provide educational organizations and institutes access to a large selection of backgrounds for their video editing classes, as well as allow them to create professional looking news on modest budgets.

Virtualsetstore.com is a subscription based store where after a payment of $99 for a 12-month subscription a subscriber can download a large variety of different virtual sets, HD video backgrounds and animations.

All products are intended for 720p & 1080p resolution video productions and have a 16:9 aspect ratio.

The products include virtual sets for green screen, animated HD backgrounds, animated intros and lower thirds. The store offers great value for educational organizations as you get a lot of value for your money, enabling you to create amazing TV shows and video productions even on really modest budgets. Some products are temporary in the store, so you want to download the entire library once you purchased the subscription and return once in a while to check if there are any new products. The store sends out notifications of new arrivals every 2-3 months.

All HD animated and green screen backgrounds are for software based low cost video editing products such as Adobe Aftereffects, iMovie, Final Cut pro and others. 

Free Adobe AfterEffect Virtual Set Video Tutorial

For your convenience we added a transcript and close captions to the video tutorials.

TEST virtual set files are available at www.CG4TV.com.

Note: This tutorial is available in high definition 720p.

Transcript for Adobe
AfterEffect Virtual Set Tutorial:

Welcome to the Virtual Set basic compositing tutorial.

Start a new composition with the settings of your project.

Drag the main layer of the virtual set to the composition.

Create the adjustment layer. This layer will used to control the position and zoom of your virtual camera.

Now, link the main layer to the adjustment layer.

Press the "S" key to expand the scale value of the Adjustment layer. You can now test how the main layer is scaling by sliding the scale value with your mouse.

Drag the source chromakey video to the composition. Link it to the Adjustment layer.

By changing the scale value of the adjustment layer you can now see how it is scaling the whole virtual set.

Select the source chromakey video and add it to the composition. Right click on the selected layer and apply a New Mask onto it.

Double click on the edge of the mask to switch to mask editing mode. Scale the mask to crop the unneeded area from the frame.

Adjust the scale and position of the chromakey video so it looks correct in the scene.

To quickly remove blue or green; color assign a Color Key filter before assigning the final quality chromakeying filter.

Pick the background color which will be keyed. Adjust the Color Tolerance to remove some of the color range.

Duplicate the Color Key filter, and choose the other part of the background which was not keyed.

Duplicate the Color Key again and pick the color you would like to remain in the background.

Now assign the Simple Choker filter to expand and round the matte of keyed video.

Only the color blue around the keyed actor will be used in the final chromakey filter, and will speed up the rendering.

Add a Keylight filter to your chromakey video. Pick a Screen Color with the Keylight color picker.

Then adjust Clip Black and Clip White values to remove any transparency of the talent.

Add a Simple Choker filter to the chromakey video to clean up the edges.

Adjust the position and scaling of the Adjustment layer to correctly frame the virtual set.

Add the video or still footage which will be used as content on the monitor in the virtual set.

Apply a Corner Pin filter on the monitor content. It will be used to adjust the footage to the monitor`s perspective.

Move the Corner Pin control points to the corresponding corners of the monitor.

Link the monitor`s content layer to the Adjustment layer.

Now by moving the Adjustment layer you can see that everything moves together.

By setting keyframes in the position and scale values and transforming

The Adjustment layer you can simulate the motion of the virtual camera.

 Transcript page: How to use virtual sets with Adobe After Effects

Animated Dance Stage Virtual Set

CG4TV just finished work on Animated Dance Stage Virtual Set. First cameras of the set are available for purchase now.

Virtual Stage Set

The Virtual Stage Set was finalized and we are rendering it in final quality. Available for immediate download from virtual sets store

New Online Resource for Virtual Sets and Royalty Free Animated Footage: CG4TV.com

Los Angeles, Feb. 15, 2010 --- New online store provides TV and video producers with affordable broadcast quality virtual sets and royalty-free stock footage. All of CG4TV’s exclusive products are available for immediate download in a variety of high definition, standard definition and web formats. A 15% celebratory launch discount is offered to TV and video producers through March 30, 2010 – use coupon code PRA10.

"Custom-made photorealistic broadcast quality 3D animations and virtual sets tend to be very expensive. Our goal however is to provide high quality 3D graphics on a modest budget. If you do not find what you are looking for in our catalog, we will produce it for you at a fraction of the pricing of competitors… as long as we can offer it to others in our store. While this means sharing the production cost with someone else, it does mean you get to be the first to use it. " - says CG4TV's Co-Founder and President, Philippe Van Nedervelde.


CG4TV Royalty Free Virtual Sets

CG4TV, stands for Computer Graphics for Television and for getting 3D graphics make your projects "look like a million bucks"... without breaking the bank.


CG4TV's virtual sets are compatible with virtually all professional chroma-keying and video editing solutions including Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, etc., as they comply with the de facto industry chroma-key standard: layered .PNG file format. There is a free download page offering a watermarked sample of single layered sets. The virtual sets and other product collections are constantly growing.


CG4TV Royalty Free Animated Footage

3D animations and animated backgrounds are other categories of products offered by CG4TV.com . Customers may view and purchase fully royalty-free virtual sets, green screen backgrounds, single clips ranging from looping animated flags to complex Christmas animations with Disney-class production values. All are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing convenient resources for creative professionals around the globe.


Perfect modern solution for celebrity newscasters

Use cases: "Miles O'Brian, the internationally renowned anchor who travels the world relentlessly, uses CG4TV's animated virtual set as a perfect solution to fit his busy schedule.

As he travels the planet, showing up at a specific physical can be quite a challenge for him. On his travels around the world, he carries with him a compact, easy to set up, portable green screen. This way, we put him on the same set for consistency no matter where in the world he is. The CG4TV.com virtual sets are the perfect solution for our show and saved us thousands of dollars in production costs," said This Week In Space Producer and Correspondent David Waters.


“The biggest part of initiating a television program is finding the right aesthetic that fits the brand. Several days were spent doing “virtual set research”, looking at different software and design companies. It was quite clear which company had the best sets. CG4TV.com offered high-resolution images that were vibrant and crisp to fit the professional, polished image we were looking for. The downloadable files with alpha channels, easily enabled our video editor to insert our own footage into a final result of great depth and realism. The virtual set has really added to the production value and feel of the program,” said Eyewitness Everett producer Stephen M. Kessinger.


About CG4TV.com

CG4TV.com is a brand created, owned and developed by the industry-award winning company E-spaces . Incorporated in 1996, E-spaces was one of the world's very first practitioners of interactive 3D graphics, a.k.a. as 'virtual reality'. As a design studio, company produced photorealistic virtual sets, 3D graphics still images, online 3D virtual worlds, 3D animated commercials (some of which airing nationwide in the USA), science and technology visualizations, etc.

Their clients include global corporations such as Intel, Gillette, British Petroleum (BP) and Adobe; TV channels like HBO, Discovery Channel and Fox News; movie studios like 20 Century Fox; top circulation magazines like People Magazine, Bild and HÖRZU; as well as many other household name organizations and companies including NASA, PBS, Ericsson ( Business Systems), the European Commission, Mitsubishi etc. etc.

For more information, please visit www.cg4tv.com.


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323-795-221

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