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.

 

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

A Rich Stock Footage Database Can Effectively Cut Production Cost

For the producers, budget issue is one of the major concerns while shooting for anything. In the other hand, a director cannot give his best unless he gets the desired high quality shots. To manage both these cases under a mutual agreement, you have to think about some alternatives. There come the stock footage companies. These companies provide High Definition (HD) footage according to director’s preferences. When you need thousands of dollars to arrange a shooting session, you need to pay few hundreds for getting access to tons of stock footage for editing and publishing. So, choosing the stock footage provider company is a very economic option for a producer.

You can lower the production cost to a huge extent by using the downloadable online stock footage clips now. Certain companies have a huge collection of these pieces, which can be used in any international level film. The examples of a few collections may be named as dangerous wildlife, cities or landmark profile footage, historical videos and Christmas animations and many more like these. As an example, in the movie “Forest Gump”, you have seen three historical figures John Lennon, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. These are all a charisma of the stock footage archive.
There is an amazing truth behind these precious stock footage. Do you know who have the largest archive of such footage? Amazingly, United States Government offices house a huge collection. Different agencies say NASA, US military develops official footage, which you can access from the suppliers. You have to pay a nominal amount to access their video databases. You won’t even have to pay the royalty fees for using these videos in most cases.

Use of these collaborations is increasing day-by-day

Computer graphics and 3D animation technology have got a great hype in the past decade. If only a few A budget films had access to 3D animation just a decade ago, now more and more animation studios can produce a virtual hd clips using the latest graphics resources. And this development makes the stock footages more popular. They can be edited, developed and combined easily and look lively than ever.

If you want to collect these clips from the authorized and associated offices or, companies, you have to go to different places, cities, even countries. Some animation studios however have 24/7 store representation. CG4TV.com is a good example of such company. They have all types of 3d animation clips you might look for in their 3D animation footage collection and all their products are available through simple downloadable links. Paying a very nominal charge for these exclusive quality stock footage animations, you can cut the production cost to half or, even less than that.

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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