Cinegrid Amsterdam

During the Cinegrid Workshop at Calit2 in San Diego (USA) on 12 December 2012, a spectacular demo was given of a virtual and remote film production. In a joint setup, realtime recordings at a filmset in Amsterdam were shown in both locations simultaneously.

Three locations were actually used in this setup. At the Dutch Film and Television Academy (NTFA) recordings were made by a camera team with an actress, at SURFsara the images were rendered with the virtual scenery and projected/directed at Calit2. Virtual sets were rendered real time even with a hand held camera. Two lightpaths in between (of 1/10 G) were used to manage the data stream, thus enabling the viewing of the end result at both locations.

Of this demo and all the preparations at NTFA, Robin Noorda (known from the 4K animation production ‘Red end and the Seamingly Symbiotic’) made a documentary film called ‘Compositing in the Cloud’. The video takes 38 minutes and is shown on YouTube.

De inschrijving voor de (7e) CineGrid International Workshop is inmiddels geopend. Op deze bijeenkomst bij Calit2 (Universiteit van Californië) in La Jolla (CA, USA) worden jaarlijks de wereldwijde trends op 4K video besproken en getoond. Het evenement wordt dit jaar gehouden van 10 t/m 12 december 2012. De inschrijving is mogelijk via deze Eventbrite link.

Workshop organized by Pacific Interface, Inc.
Sponsored by CineGrid, a non-profit organization headquartered in California.
Hosted by the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Supported in part by NSF IRNC participant cost funding.
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, 1st Floor, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, CA

CineGrid’s mission is to build an interdisciplinary community that is focused on the research, development, and demonstration of networked collaborative tools to enable the production, use and exchange of very-high-quality digital media over photonic networks.

For more information, please go to: http:///www.cinegrid.org

Luc Renambot Research and Education Pages published a gallery covering the VROOM at CineGrid Workshop 2011. We quote from the post:

“A few pictures of the VROOM (Virtual Room), a whole room covered with displays (lots of Optiportables and 4K projectors). All the LCDs panels are driven by SAGE. The projectors are driven by NTT J2K codecs. Here are few pictures during the SAGE demo with Keio University KMD about their creative work telling the story of the aftermath of the earthquake/tsunami in Japan…”

The impressing photographs can be found here.