Great work! If you blurred the image on the screens a little you would create a depth blur separation between the view and the window frame making it more realistic. I'd also up the exposure for the screens a little on the daytime shots and also the Amaran T4c a bit brighter. Just my opinion, it's an awesome job!
The fact that the curtain in the room and the buildings "outside the window" have the same degree of out-of-focus blur could be a give away. I would consider blurring the image from the TV's a little to add blur to the "outside the window buildings" as opposed to the elements inside the room which is supposed to be much closer and a little more in focus.
Love the lighting breakdown. The use of TV's as "windows" is great, nothing like the ability to quickly change the background and not have to deal with lighting changes as the day progresses.
Very good job. The day we have displays that change with the angle of vision we will enjoy virtual windows showing the part of the world we choose. Imagine a live (or recorded) view of Central Park. That display would be a kind of light field display, similar to the failed Lytro light field camera.
One big advantage that I notice here is that you would not need nearly as powerful of lights to pull this off because you wouldn’t have to battle the brightness of the exterior. Like the video mentioned, you only had to have that 600 D at 2.3% and you could 100% pull this off with a key light 1/4 the size and power.
Looks great! I like that the window trim is attached with Velcro; allows for easy swapping between different colours and materials. The window sill box could be a handy storage space for the different trims, curtains, and dressings.
I really love the night scene, it feels super cozy and has a great color contrast! Only the day scene feels a bit off. I think it‘s because the „window“ is not emitting enough light for an actual daylight setting. The balance in the dynamic range of the shot feels not quite right. Especially with those dark shadows on the wall. Without the bounce-lighting a window of that size would allow, it looks more like a light box, than an actual window.
Furthermore, it’s pretty obvious the person is being lit 100% by big lights positioned around the person, like a studio, and 0% by the window. It seems like you might as well use green screen or something. It just looks like a fake Zoom background.
Thanks for the vid. Just a quick note that when shooting through real windows, there is usually a noticeable green tint (you can see the difference between the TV window and the real window at the 7:54 mark). Anyway, thanks again for the vid.
This is incredible. Expensive, but still saves a ton of money while remaining portable and simple. The only thing I can see as an issue is the lack of parallax with a moving camera (for the city background) but other than that it looks great. I think experimenting without the white trim on the tvs would look good too as black trim is probably more common. Great job ELM!
The Night scene was my fav. It would be cool to play with parallax in the tvs more for things like the slider shot, animated it to move counter to the slide and have it play back from resolve as youve set it up... a poor man's "void" Unreal engine setup... ha.
What an absolutely fantastic setup! Each shot looks beautiful! I've seen a lot of the other videos you guys mentioned and this one looks the best for sure! Keep up the great work!!
That's freakin Smart. Def gonna steal this. Love the details about the whole lighting setup too. We have a big light/softbox we use too almost always at 1% for interviews :)
I've wanted to do this ever since I saw Potato jets video. He took it up a notch further and looks like he used DMX or some other app to quickly shift the fill light tones between scenes. Really convincing looking setups for not a lot of money. Well done.
This is absolutely incredible, you guys did a phenomenal job at building this. The first two scenes looked the best. IMO the last scene with the city in the background looked good but the choice of making the tube light blue in the background to mimic the city lights was too much and instead 10:48 ended up looking like there is a St. Pauli Girl neon beer sign hanging somewhere on another wall out of the shot.
Really well done. I work in a very small video production unit that is part of a small advertising/marketing company. We have a DP, editor, gaffer and grip, a make-up person and set builder...ALL me! I wish I could talk my bosses into spending the money for something like this because we could use all three monitors, just two or just one...vertical or horizontal and get all sorts of different looks. I would assume you could even feed moving video into the monitors to make it even more convincing. I liked all your looks. I didn't think any were cheesey looking. With the heavy bokeh I think most viewers' attention would be focused on the subject of the interview and if the edited clip(s) were short enough, the viewers wouldn't have time to "find stuff" in the picture to get distracted by or criticize. Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
First time watching and loved the video! Great idea and super inventive way of solving quick changes. Have you thought about experimenting with any parallax software to add even more realism to the outside space?
Awesome setup! Potato Jet's video already made me want to try this, but the glass conference room thing look... wow. That's just icing on the cake! Congrats on home grown 200k subs :p
It's pretty good. I mean I'd go for the cheaper ''LED pannel disguised as a window' on the wall'' because of the price, but your work is convincing. Bravo.
This is very impressive! I've done something similar to this. Though certainly not as high-production. But a couple of quick suggestions to make things more convincing or convenient, if you have a bit of extra budget and coding know-how. 0. Use video instead of an image. If you have birds flying by or people walking around, that's the extra step that'll really make it more convincing. 1. Send the average screen color to your lights. Especially the back projection and the Aputure tube above. -You can do this with just a text file associating an average color with an image, or you can take screen captures and process them. Only needs to be about 10FPS. - Add some sliders for things like white balance and saturation. But properly set up, you could probably get away with adjusting these only once. 2. As a more advanced option, consider in large scenes, a window acts as an extremely blurry pinhole camera. So bright spots on the left of the scene will project light on the right side of the room, and vice versa. So if the sun is on the right, you can project light to the left. 3. As an even more advanced option, you can do image convolution with a kernel for determining the light source location in the image. Basically calculate where the sun is, and have it adjust lighting accordingly. I did something similar to this in my office once. I used my GPU to speed up the process to 60FPS. This was really cool, because you could have a video of a lightning storm and it includes your room in the lightning. I suppose you can do this with Philips HUE. But you might still want to just have it talk to an API for the DMX controller. I'm not sure the CRI of HUE bulbs is good enough for colors that are anything but temperatures of white. I thought about, if I were to do this again, or a setup similar to yours, going the Disney route and basically making the scenes in Unreal and syncing them up to camera position.
All of these look pretty good! The sky on the first one should probably be a little brighter. I'd consider moving the tube light a little farther back (closer to the TV). The shadow direction on the plants looks a little off r n. Can't wait to see with some moving backgrounds! How big is your room?
love the last shot with the fake night. i do think the lack of parallax on the city window gives it away a bit but if you move less then it's less noticeable
Great video! Was thinking about this afterwards; you could switch the white spacers/separators between the TVs with black, wood, etc. Also, you could have drill a hole in a set and add light sconces/fixtures - these could be off-the-shelf or 3D printed. 3D printing would allow you to scale and customize the fixture design (art deco, modern, etc.) and they could be painted - might need to block out the side of the fixture that faces the window/screen - otherwise it could cause some odd reflections. Little aspects would really add to the ambience.
Man, this was great to see, and a great video. We've already been planning on getting a 75" LED TV for product photography backgrounds, but this is another use I hadn't thought of. Your setups looked really clean, motivated and flattering. Interesting thing about keeping bounces white and negative fill black, to clean up ambient color influence from the room... I've been working on doing the opposite lately. Greig Fraser has talked a lot about using bounces that match /the environmental tones of the sets/ in movies like Dune and The Batman, to keep thinks feeling natural. I rewatched The Batman, and I realized you rarely ever see a clean & neutral skin tone throughout the entire movie. There's usually some color influence from the environment. I've been doing some of my own tests, and found that you can indeed create beautiful, naturalistic results from intentionally bouncing light with tonal influence from the environment. It gives the frame a certain unified aesthetic quality, without the use of a stylistic color grade. Very eye opening. He also seems to like lighting/exposing things with very realistic looking brightness & contrast ratios, enough that you could almost believe he's shooting in available light. Or almost like you, the viewer, are actually there with the characters. The scenes don't look very "lit", and the lighting is rarely "ideal", but it all seems to generate a very authentic feeling image... and ultimately everything still has careful intention behind it. I really admire it. But you guys' setups here really reminded me of the value in keeping everything clean and sort of "ideal" for totally different look. What Greig does is very different from how you'd light an interview, TV commercial, or piece of stock footage... or even a different sort of movie. Lighting is so particular, and yet has so much wiggle room, depending on what you're actually trying to do. It's fascinating to me.
Looks great! The only thing I'd want to fix/add is a way to move the TV's to the other side a lot faster. There are many sit-down interviews where I would like the interviewee looking to the left of the camera instead of the right. Especially if I'm filming more than 1 person per project. Also a nit-pik but the blue "moonlight" needs to be toned down for saturation - I feel like the general consensus for moonlight is to blast the set with a very saturated blue light and in this case I think less is more.
My favorite was the night shot. It looked very real. The second room depth one is quite good as well, but in that particular case, I found the white TV bezel covers between the TVs a distracting thing that broke the illusion. Perhaps if they were black to match the trim in the “distance”, I would feel differently. Not sure. It does look amazing though. That brick on wall really makes both the second and third sets. The first one though, looked artificial to me. The window just did not look natural to me although still good considering what is really behind it. Ha! But something was just off on it. I think it was the light coming through. I’m wondering what a sunset shot would look like though. It would probably be challenging to get right with the directional light needed, but I think it could look stunning. I’m also wondering what sheer curtains pulled all the way across, rather than just the side would do for realism?
Thanks for sharing this, I am building a wall for use with a projector for more background options and seeing what you have done is going to help with that.
I filmed a short film for my college intramurals where i put a 40 inch tv outside the house and place it on the window because im too lazy to track footage and key it out. we did similar with the edges through set design but not as yours. One thing i learned about that technique is to avoid close ups with wide focal lengths and deep aperture (like f5.6) where you can see the rgb pixels of the tv.
I'd be curious about opening up the TVs and separating the screen from the backlight and using even brighter lights behind it to better simulate window brightness.
All very clever. You explained what you did but the shots were very convincing 😀 I’ll save up for three big TVs, the special lights and yeah, a proper camera. I suppose then I’d have to start making my own UA-cam videos instead of just watching 🤪
Particularly liked the night scene, agree you could add a little animation for twinkles, jets in the sky, traffic, etc. Unreal Engine could be useful as a background generator for such things. It makes me smile that the TV's can be adjusted in contrast and brightness so no more difficult gelling of actual windows, which was always a pain. Wondering though why not do the same thing with the new breed of laser-powered video projectors, and just have one big window, without mullions?
Do you think an ultra short throw laser projector would work for this setup? Provided that the projector can be placed and hidden effectively. It'd have less light spill, reflection, and would be able to project up 120-150" spanning ~10' across.
I love this channel. You guys have helped me tremendously on quite a few things in the 10 videos I’ve watched. Love the one of bouncing light from outside with the Home Depot rig🙌🏼
Nice! I once used a large tv as my background because I didn't have a green screen. Although all the shots were limited to close ups and extreme close ups haha.
Another tip is use an AI service like mid journey to create custom backdrops works really well because you can be really specific with how you want it to look and it’ll be blurry enough that any AI artefacts won’t be visible
That's so cool. Great job! My favorite is definitely the night scene. It's quite convincing. The daytime "main" shot that looks like Phoenix was my least favorite. I feel like depth of field was just way too strong. It looked "try hard" and I kept thinking "why is it so blurry?". It was distracting imho. Awesome video, though. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
I cracked up at the "tech bro!" but definitely the night-time shot is my favorite! This could really benefit from the Roscoe Dash + DOT or another small eyelight, just to give his eyes life... that's the last little detail to make it perfect!
This was beautifully shot. Well done as always. Love how much information you guys share. I hope you don't keep growing and nobody subscribes.
Great work! If you blurred the image on the screens a little you would create a depth blur separation between the view and the window frame making it more realistic. I'd also up the exposure for the screens a little on the daytime shots and also the Amaran T4c a bit brighter. Just my opinion, it's an awesome job!
I expected this to be a collab with Potato!
lol same
Waiting for that to happen soon
I agree lol 😝
The fact that the curtain in the room and the buildings "outside the window" have the same degree of out-of-focus blur could be a give away. I would consider blurring the image from the TV's a little to add blur to the "outside the window buildings" as opposed to the elements inside the room which is supposed to be much closer and a little more in focus.
Love the lighting breakdown. The use of TV's as "windows" is great, nothing like the ability to quickly change the background and not have to deal with lighting changes as the day progresses.
It’s true the consistency is nice
the way the brick backdrop shot cleverly blended with the screen was very convincing. looked like you were in a large space
it blended so well, might have well just used 2 backdrops. instead of this whole rigamaroll. using video on the tv will set it apart, not this.
Very good job. The day we have displays that change with the angle of vision we will enjoy virtual windows showing the part of the world we choose. Imagine a live (or recorded) view of Central Park. That display would be a kind of light field display, similar to the failed Lytro light field camera.
One big advantage that I notice here is that you would not need nearly as powerful of lights to pull this off because you wouldn’t have to battle the brightness of the exterior. Like the video mentioned, you only had to have that 600 D at 2.3% and you could 100% pull this off with a key light 1/4 the size and power.
Looks great! I like that the window trim is attached with Velcro; allows for easy swapping between different colours and materials. The window sill box could be a handy storage space for the different trims, curtains, and dressings.
Just use a green screen. Much cheaper.😂
I really love the night scene, it feels super cozy and has a great color contrast!
Only the day scene feels a bit off.
I think it‘s because the „window“ is not emitting enough light for an actual daylight setting.
The balance in the dynamic range of the shot feels not quite right. Especially with those dark shadows on the wall. Without the bounce-lighting a window of that size would allow, it looks more like a light box, than an actual window.
Furthermore, it’s pretty obvious the person is being lit 100% by big lights positioned around the person, like a studio, and 0% by the window. It seems like you might as well use green screen or something. It just looks like a fake Zoom background.
Thanks for the vid. Just a quick note that when shooting through real windows, there is usually a noticeable green tint (you can see the difference between the TV window and the real window at the 7:54 mark). Anyway, thanks again for the vid.
Awesome video guys!! So cool and helpful, thank you. The final shots looked great!
I didn't need to watch this video, but this was cool, so I stayed the whole way through. I liked the night time setup and the first daytime.
I love the 2nd setup, you nailed the perspective. The brick wall very convincingly continues past the "window"
This is incredible. Expensive, but still saves a ton of money while remaining portable and simple. The only thing I can see as an issue is the lack of parallax with a moving camera (for the city background) but other than that it looks great. I think experimenting without the white trim on the tvs would look good too as black trim is probably more common. Great job ELM!
And that could be fixed with some Vive Mars type stuff. But for a city, it's maybe not that big a deal
Can you not do it with a cheap projector?
@@Alec15 not a "cheap" one. It'll be easy too dark. Already cheap TV is coming out a bit dark
@@Alec15 I thought of that too but it would probably get too washed out
@@mortalens and if you shoot wide open?
The Night scene was my fav. It would be cool to play with parallax in the tvs more for things like the slider shot, animated it to move counter to the slide and have it play back from resolve as youve set it up... a poor man's "void" Unreal engine setup... ha.
the setup with brick backdrop looks epic! 👏
.."don't subscribe" for 200k very soon 🚀🚀🚀
Thanks!!!
Wait this isn't the 3D printing corner of UA-cam.
What an absolutely fantastic setup! Each shot looks beautiful! I've seen a lot of the other videos you guys mentioned and this one looks the best for sure! Keep up the great work!!
Hey cool idea!
Nice idea. I love it
The night shoot looks lit!
@EpicLightMedia I made the same setup with an Ultra Short Throw projector would love you guys to see it 😉
Just stumbled on this video. Loved it, cool dudes, great info.
Brilliant! Excellent tutorial
so informative and very appealing setup. Great for the introverts that want to travel and go out into the world without having to go out.....
if i ever have a studio space for client shoot i'll totally invest in this setup, it's so expandable and so much control of the environment
That's freakin Smart. Def gonna steal this. Love the details about the whole lighting setup too. We have a big light/softbox we use too almost always at 1% for interviews :)
I like all the DIY on this show. It makes me wish to own a white van. Thanks for more tips and ideas.
I've wanted to do this ever since I saw Potato jets video. He took it up a notch further and looks like he used DMX or some other app to quickly shift the fill light tones between scenes. Really convincing looking setups for not a lot of money. Well done.
Very cool. My favorite was the last one with the brick backdrop. Day or night works.
nice setup with good detail.
Great lighting on the brick wall shots !!! Very impressive..
Very informative. Great tutorial for lighting production in a short segment without talking down to your audience. I learned a lot, thank you.
Super versatile setup! I like them all.
Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot?! 😱
This is mind-blowing!
This is absolutely incredible, you guys did a phenomenal job at building this. The first two scenes looked the best. IMO the last scene with the city in the background looked good but the choice of making the tube light blue in the background to mimic the city lights was too much and instead 10:48 ended up looking like there is a St. Pauli Girl neon beer sign hanging somewhere on another wall out of the shot.
Really well done. I work in a very small video production unit that is part of a small advertising/marketing company. We have a DP, editor, gaffer and grip, a make-up person and set builder...ALL me! I wish I could talk my bosses into spending the money for something like this because we could use all three monitors, just two or just one...vertical or horizontal and get all sorts of different looks. I would assume you could even feed moving video into the monitors to make it even more convincing. I liked all your looks. I didn't think any were cheesey looking. With the heavy bokeh I think most viewers' attention would be focused on the subject of the interview and if the edited clip(s) were short enough, the viewers wouldn't have time to "find stuff" in the picture to get distracted by or criticize. Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
Hey thanks!!!!
First time watching and loved the video! Great idea and super inventive way of solving quick changes. Have you thought about experimenting with any parallax software to add even more realism to the outside space?
Awesome setup! Potato Jet's video already made me want to try this, but the glass conference room thing look... wow. That's just icing on the cake!
Congrats on home grown 200k subs :p
Fascinating. I love anything that goes behind the scenes.
Would this work with a projector on a plain white wall?
I've considered getting a vinyl brick wall backdrop, and seeing it work well here was encouraging.
It's pretty good.
I mean I'd go for the cheaper ''LED pannel disguised as a window' on the wall'' because of the price, but your work is convincing. Bravo.
Very cool and informative. Loved the looks...
This is very impressive!
I've done something similar to this. Though certainly not as high-production. But a couple of quick suggestions to make things more convincing or convenient, if you have a bit of extra budget and coding know-how.
0. Use video instead of an image. If you have birds flying by or people walking around, that's the extra step that'll really make it more convincing.
1. Send the average screen color to your lights. Especially the back projection and the Aputure tube above.
-You can do this with just a text file associating an average color with an image, or you can take screen captures and process them. Only needs to be about 10FPS.
- Add some sliders for things like white balance and saturation. But properly set up, you could probably get away with adjusting these only once.
2. As a more advanced option, consider in large scenes, a window acts as an extremely blurry pinhole camera. So bright spots on the left of the scene will project light on the right side of the room, and vice versa. So if the sun is on the right, you can project light to the left.
3. As an even more advanced option, you can do image convolution with a kernel for determining the light source location in the image. Basically calculate where the sun is, and have it adjust lighting accordingly.
I did something similar to this in my office once. I used my GPU to speed up the process to 60FPS. This was really cool, because you could have a video of a lightning storm and it includes your room in the lightning.
I suppose you can do this with Philips HUE. But you might still want to just have it talk to an API for the DMX controller. I'm not sure the CRI of HUE bulbs is good enough for colors that are anything but temperatures of white.
I thought about, if I were to do this again, or a setup similar to yours, going the Disney route and basically making the scenes in Unreal and syncing them up to camera position.
This is awesome. Let see if I can make it in my classroom! Thank you!
The night setup is awsome! Very realistic and cinematic.
Hey thanks!!
What a cool project and implementation! I like it.
Absolutely incredible! Always blown away by your knowledge and the videos you put out! Thank you!
Love the last one ✨✨
All of these look pretty good!
The sky on the first one should probably be a little brighter. I'd consider moving the tube light a little farther back (closer to the TV). The shadow direction on the plants looks a little off r n.
Can't wait to see with some moving backgrounds!
How big is your room?
I have learned so much with you guys. Best channel on UA-cam to learn about lights.
Ahh so kind!
love the last shot with the fake night. i do think the lack of parallax on the city window gives it away a bit but if you move less then it's less noticeable
Great video! Was thinking about this afterwards; you could switch the white spacers/separators between the TVs with black, wood, etc. Also, you could have drill a hole in a set and add light sconces/fixtures - these could be off-the-shelf or 3D printed.
3D printing would allow you to scale and customize the fixture design (art deco, modern, etc.) and they could be painted - might need to block out the side of the fixture that faces the window/screen - otherwise it could cause some odd reflections. Little aspects would really add to the ambience.
Man, this was great to see, and a great video. We've already been planning on getting a 75" LED TV for product photography backgrounds, but this is another use I hadn't thought of. Your setups looked really clean, motivated and flattering. Interesting thing about keeping bounces white and negative fill black, to clean up ambient color influence from the room... I've been working on doing the opposite lately.
Greig Fraser has talked a lot about using bounces that match /the environmental tones of the sets/ in movies like Dune and The Batman, to keep thinks feeling natural. I rewatched The Batman, and I realized you rarely ever see a clean & neutral skin tone throughout the entire movie. There's usually some color influence from the environment.
I've been doing some of my own tests, and found that you can indeed create beautiful, naturalistic results from intentionally bouncing light with tonal influence from the environment. It gives the frame a certain unified aesthetic quality, without the use of a stylistic color grade. Very eye opening. He also seems to like lighting/exposing things with very realistic looking brightness & contrast ratios, enough that you could almost believe he's shooting in available light. Or almost like you, the viewer, are actually there with the characters.
The scenes don't look very "lit", and the lighting is rarely "ideal", but it all seems to generate a very authentic feeling image... and ultimately everything still has careful intention behind it. I really admire it. But you guys' setups here really reminded me of the value in keeping everything clean and sort of "ideal" for totally different look. What Greig does is very different from how you'd light an interview, TV commercial, or piece of stock footage... or even a different sort of movie. Lighting is so particular, and yet has so much wiggle room, depending on what you're actually trying to do. It's fascinating to me.
This is a cool build for something I will never need but definitely want 😆
Looks great! The only thing I'd want to fix/add is a way to move the TV's to the other side a lot faster. There are many sit-down interviews where I would like the interviewee looking to the left of the camera instead of the right. Especially if I'm filming more than 1 person per project. Also a nit-pik but the blue "moonlight" needs to be toned down for saturation - I feel like the general consensus for moonlight is to blast the set with a very saturated blue light and in this case I think less is more.
My favorite was the night shot. It looked very real. The second room depth one is quite good as well, but in that particular case, I found the white TV bezel covers between the TVs a distracting thing that broke the illusion. Perhaps if they were black to match the trim in the “distance”, I would feel differently. Not sure. It does look amazing though. That brick on wall really makes both the second and third sets.
The first one though, looked artificial to me. The window just did not look natural to me although still good considering what is really behind it. Ha! But something was just off on it. I think it was the light coming through. I’m wondering what a sunset shot would look like though. It would probably be challenging to get right with the directional light needed, but I think it could look stunning. I’m also wondering what sheer curtains pulled all the way across, rather than just the side would do for realism?
First saw this look on Potato Jets channel. Great breakdown here. Thanks for sharing
Wow you guys nailed this!
Amazing job on this! Loved seeing the different setups
you could synchronize the projected image in the tv with a moving camera to give an illusion of depth
Love the night cityscape setup 🔥
They look amazing 😮
Thanks for sharing this, I am building a wall for use with a projector for more background options and seeing what you have done is going to help with that.
I need to make my subjects look more "elite". Thanks for this video EL! Great Job!
Thanks for stopping by josh!
Seriously. Comedy was on point in this episeode 10:26 "It's my go to thing"-- Well done sir.
Awesome work, tons of helpful insight 😊
I filmed a short film for my college intramurals where i put a 40 inch tv outside the house and place it on the window because im too lazy to track footage and key it out. we did similar with the edges through set design but not as yours. One thing i learned about that technique is to avoid close ups with wide focal lengths and deep aperture (like f5.6) where you can see the rgb pixels of the tv.
all are cool. especially the last one with the city look
Thank you very much. It's very informative yet fun to watch
This video is simply invaluable, I've learnt a lot and sure I'll find some situations will this knowledge will be in use. Amazing work.
We don't really want to subscribe your channel,
but your content doesn't let that happen...😆 Love your work
Looks great!
Curous is you can flip the setup easily enough in order to get subjects looking left of screen?
I love it... BUT... i'd keyframe the Image sideways on the screens a little bit when moving the camera for a parallax effect. 💜
Nice, thanks for these tips. I like the brick wall and the night setup
Thanks!!
I'd be curious about opening up the TVs and separating the screen from the backlight and using even brighter lights behind it to better simulate window brightness.
looks great! video for the background would probably even sell the effect more like slight movement in the palm trees
A humble Arizona boy. Love it.
Not so humble but I am an Arizona boy it’s true!
I’m really sorry for not helping out but I had to subscribe. I hope this doesn’t throw you guys off, stay humble and homely ☺️
this is great but i have a question can this be done by just printing diffrent backgrounds?
Looks really good! Love the breakdown 👏
All very clever. You explained what you did but the shots were very convincing 😀
I’ll save up for three big TVs, the special lights and yeah, a proper camera. I suppose then I’d have to start making my own UA-cam videos instead of just watching 🤪
Particularly liked the night scene, agree you could add a little animation for twinkles, jets in the sky, traffic, etc. Unreal Engine could be useful as a background generator for such things. It makes me smile that the TV's can be adjusted in contrast and brightness so no more difficult gelling of actual windows, which was always a pain. Wondering though why not do the same thing with the new breed of laser-powered video projectors, and just have one big window, without mullions?
Do you think an ultra short throw laser projector would work for this setup? Provided that the projector can be placed and hidden effectively. It'd have less light spill, reflection, and would be able to project up 120-150" spanning ~10' across.
I love this channel. You guys have helped me tremendously on quite a few things in the 10 videos I’ve watched. Love the one of bouncing light from outside with the Home Depot rig🙌🏼
Nice! I once used a large tv as my background because I didn't have a green screen. Although all the shots were limited to close ups and extreme close ups haha.
Incredible video.
Nice set up! thanks, I prefere the blue dark nite
Another tip is use an AI service like mid journey to create custom backdrops works really well because you can be really specific with how you want it to look and it’ll be blurry enough that any AI artefacts won’t be visible
What sources are available for the tvs or do you shoot your own cityscapes?
All the shots look good! Have you considered using a projector instead of TVs?
We’ve tried it but the black parts of the image with a projector become grey super easily
Very interesting setup which is versatile😍 when budget allows it will try it out🤩
That's so cool. Great job!
My favorite is definitely the night scene. It's quite convincing.
The daytime "main" shot that looks like Phoenix was my least favorite. I feel like depth of field was just way too strong. It looked "try hard" and I kept thinking "why is it so blurry?". It was distracting imho.
Awesome video, though. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
I think they all
Look great
Wow, I'm impressed. Is it overkill to do this for my home office?!?
Loved this video guys!
Hey thanks so much!!
Awesome. I liked night time for sure
I cracked up at the "tech bro!" but definitely the night-time shot is my favorite! This could really benefit from the Roscoe Dash + DOT or another small eyelight, just to give his eyes life... that's the last little detail to make it perfect!