Reacting to an Ultimate Virtual Production Studio Setup
Watch as we react to an incredible virtual production studio setup found on Reddit, exploring its high-end cameras and powerful components built for live broadcasts.
Key Takeaways
- The featured setup on Reddit showcases a dedicated virtual production studio designed for creating professional 3D generated environments, often seen in news or sports broadcasts.
- The studio is equipped with multiple displays, including ultrawides and a desk-integrated screen, alongside professional audio and video mixing equipment like an Atom Blackmagic Atem Mini.
- High-end camera gear is present, potentially a Blackmagic cinema camera, indicating a significant investment in broadcast-quality video capture.
- The system features an Elgato teleprompter and a large key light, highlighting the attention to detail for professional-grade video output.
- The main computer boasts an AMD Threadripper 7970X CPU, dual GPUs (5090 and 47TI), and 128GB of RAM, specifically built for real-time rendering with Unreal Engine and Aximetry.
- This setup demonstrates a pure function-over-form approach, where a 'maximalist' collection of gear serves a very specific, high-tech production purpose.
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Setup. All right, so this one’s interesting. I found this on Reddit. The pictures are a bit dodgy, all right. But I found it interesting simply because the guy seems to be into what’s called virtual production, which I think is like, you know, when you see sort of like a 3D, 3D generated setting for like, like a news desk, you know, or like one of a sports show where, you know, someone sort of flies in from a certain angle on Fox or whatever, they fly in and you know, the teams that are playing sort of their logos fly in and move around them and sort of rotate.
I think he, he built this setup to, to sort of create these kind of effects and I thought it was kind of cool also. I mean, the setup does seem just so over the top. I mean, look at this. What you got here? Two ultra wides, I guess that’s like a 27 inch up here.
Another what, 27, maybe 32. And this seems to be another 27 or place vertically. And there’s a screen here that’s built into the desk. So I think he’s cut a hole like in the desk and then sort of placed it down in there at an angle so you can kind of like look directly down. I guess it’s kind of a cool idea.
I remember I used to have a friend who’s thinking of doing something like this. It was just too much work because essentially you have to kind of build custom frames. You have to make the cut in your table or make a new table and then have something underneath which can also, I guess hold it at an angle and keep it there and keep it solid. It’s just a lot of work. So also, what is this?
That looks like. Is that an Atom blackmagic Atem mini here at the front? And then this is maybe like a, I don’t know, like an audio. Audio panel, soundboard. And in this seems to be like a remote.
Is that, is that like a. Again, terrible lighting. And yes, there’s a phone and an iPad, I guess, which is set up as stream decks, I think, using the app. So, yeah, again, like I said, terrible lighting. This is the actual setups.
Two computers here, pl. Plus a laptop in his. What looks like his closet, you know.
Oh God, there’s terrible pictures, man. Yeah, that’s bad. I’m just gonna skip that one here. What seems to be a very high end camera setup. I think, I think that this is a. I want to say a Canon.
I think they had C200. I’m not, I’m not like a Big camera, like a massive camera nerd. But a little bit of research I did, I came across some of these high end cameras. I think this might be one of them. Not quite sure.
It looks like he has a, an Elgato teleprompter on the front. Just a smart move and a big key light here in the back. Ah, here you go. So you see the camcorder. Maybe I was wrong on that Canon call.
This is a Black Magic. Oh no. This is a blackmagic monitor. Is this a blackmagic camera? If this is a blackmagic camera and it’s this large, this thing is expensive.
This is like high end blackmagic make basically like movie quality cameras. They’re sort of very high end. And I’m sure this is like, I don’t know, minimum $10,000 for something like this. But yeah, here you see the setup. He has a green screen in the background and sort of across the whole wall there.
That’s super interesting. Again, maybe not maximalist, but you know, serving a Purpose is one of those setups that has a lot of stuff to serve a purpose and I respect that. So in the comments of the Reddit post he says, yeah, he talks about, you know, making virtual, virtual productions and he actually gave a sample of one of his virtual productions that he has on YoYouTube which I, when they’re found. So let’s have a watch together.
All right. Yeah, you see him, he was like sitting at the desk in the middle of the, in the middle of the production there while everything sort of flies around him. Let’s see. I can play that.
Okay, that’s, that’s pretty impressive. I think this, all of this seems to take like a lot of, a lot of power to build. I actually came across the specs of his main computer in the, in the Reddit post and it’s a AMD Fredripper 7970X. It has two GPUs, a 5090 and a 47TI and 128 gigs of RAM. Man, that’s, that’s a beast of a machine right there.
I think I actually saw a, another Reddit thread which had his actual setup in it. So let’s have a quick peek at that new PC build for real time rendering of virtual production with unreal engine and zero density and. Or axi. Axi. Aximetry.
Aximetry, which I don’t know how to pronounce that. So this is the build. Yeah. So you see Fredripper Motherboard 5090 over here and I guess that’s the PSU. Yeah.
Yeah, that’s a lot of GPU power. 120 gigs of RAM, man, that’s a beast of a machine. Anyway, I was just impressed with, you know, the whole virtual production thing. This one seems to be more like. It’s definitely pure function over any form.
I guess that’s not really maximalism. I feel like maximalism is hard to pin down here. We’re just looking at selves with a lot of stuff in them and then trying to find the one which has, you know, some intention behind it. I think the last setup that we showed with auto screens was a good example of that. But, yeah, this one sort of made its way in there.
Maybe just because I’m. I’m impressed with the whole virtual. Virtual production side of it, and I just want to nerd out on that for a little bit.
