Creating a Virtual Production Environment in Unreal Engine

🎥 Learn how to create a virtual news desk environment in Unreal Engine using a webcam feed.

🔍 Download the necessary assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace and add them to a new project.

💻 Install a special plugin for video data transmission.

🔍 Install the NDI SDK and Unreal Engine plugin to transmit and receive video via NDI.

📁 Copy and paste the NDI plugin into the project folder to enable it in Unreal Engine.

🎥 Install the NDI plugin in OBS to enable NDI support for video streaming and transfer.

To set up the Unreal Engine Environment for Virtual Production, you need to download the appropriate version for your machine and the NDI runtime file.

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, you can use the Nvidia background removal effect filter in OBS to remove the background from your webcam.

To enable transparency in the video signal sent over NDI, you need to set the color format to BGRA 8-bit in the NDI output settings.

📺 The video demonstrates how to set up an Unreal Engine environment for virtual production.

🎥 The process involves adding an ndi receiver to display the camera feed as a two-dimensional stand-in in the scene.

🔧 The orientation and position of the ndi receiver can be adjusted in the scene for optimal placement.

🔍 Creating a new asset to grab texture from OBS and display it in the scene.

⚙️ Adjusting connection settings to pull the desired texture from a local source.

🖥️ Setting up the correct aspect ratio for the image and compositing it into the scene.

🎥 Adding a cinema camera to the scene for a better perspective and more settings.

🎞️ Repositioning the cinema camera to get a better view of the scene.

🎮 Setting up a blueprint to automatically switch to the cinema camera during gameplay.

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