While Virtual Production was rolling prior to the pandemic, adoption ramped up 10-fold as the industry saw a way to keep shooting with smaller crews and no travel thanks to LED stages and gaming engines. But while productions continued, it became a bit like the Wild West in terms of standardized workflows, with everyone seemingly creating their own. More recently things have settled down, and technology companies are offering easier access to Virtual Production for all.

Below we highlight some of today’s key virtual production technologies and support tools, with each providing information on why they could be the solution to your needs.

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Mistika Technology is an award-winning, pioneering solution for immersive post production and smart media management. Bringing highly efficient workflow and image quality enables the complete creation of any immersive content, including virtual sets — from initial optical flow stitching, color grading and VFX, all the way to automated final deliverables.

What you’ll find in SGO’s techToolbox:

MELS’ virtual stage crew is one of the world’s most experienced teams in the digital production space. From blockbuster films and indie films to advertising and music videos, our capabilities range from enhanced environments to full 3D digital sets. We pride ourselves in making your digital production journey productive and creative with our virtual production stage and can-do attitude.

What you’ll find in MELS’ techToolbox:

Proven on the most demanding live productions in the world, Pixotope offers media content owners and producers a reliable and sustainable end-to-end Virtual Production Platform. Pixotope uniquely allows media creators to tell stories with the visual impact of high-end features, combined with the connected and scalable nature of online content, and the immersive and social experience of video games. With global 24/7 operations and a presence on four continents, Pixotope Technologies is on a mission to promote accessibility, ease of use, and customer success in Virtual Production for all creators.

What you’ll find in Pixotope’s techToolbox:

Ncam are the creators of Ncam Reality, the advanced real-time camera tracker that can do both indoor and outdoor tracking at production levels. Ncam is used by some of the biggest brands around the globe to visualize photorealistic graphics in real time, including Amazon, CNN, Disney, Netflix, Snapchat and more.

What you’ll find in Ncam’s techToolbox:

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