Virtual Production Planning With Costing and Stage Booking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current LED virtual production management involves complex and extensive production logistics, requiring separate departments or companies to handle designing, planning, organizing, and generating shot lists, visualizations, costs, and timelines, leading to a need for improved planning and management.
Innovation Solution
A digital twin application for virtual production planning that enables users to design, plan, and organize productions shot by shot, visualize logistics, costs, and timelines, and output video from a virtual camera mimicking filming on an LED virtual production wall, with features like real-time environment changes and cost estimation, allowing direct sound stage booking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional separate departments handle production logistics, then specialized expertise is maintained, but process complexity and coordination overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously separate production logistics functions (shot list generation, storyboard creation, pre-visualization, technical visualization, cost calculation, and sound stage booking) into a single integrated digital application. This consolidation maintains specialized expertise through modular functionality while reducing coordination overhead by providing a unified interface that automatically coordinates all production aspects.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual processes are used for production planning, then flexibility is maintained, but time consumption and labor intensity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating cost estimates, technical visualizations, and production timelines before final booking decisions. The digital application pre-calculates production requirements and presents comprehensive plans to users, allowing flexible adjustments while significantly reducing the time needed for manual planning and coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital application serves as an intermediary between various production aspects, automatically coordinating and integrating shot lists, visualizations, cost calculations, and booking arrangements. This intermediary system maintains flexibility through user-friendly interfaces while dramatically reducing the time consumption associated with manual coordination between different production elements.
3Manufacturing precision
If comprehensive production logistics are managed manually, then detailed control is achieved, but operational complexity and error potential increase
Solution Approach 1:
The digital application provides self-service functionality by automatically generating comprehensive production plans, calculating costs, creating technical visualizations, and coordinating booking details without requiring manual intervention for each task. The system maintains detailed control through automated calculations and presentations while significantly improving ease of operation through a unified, user-friendly interface that reduces the potential for human error.
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AI summary
Planning virtual production from a digital application, including: performing digital planning and management of the virtual production to produce at least video output of a digital LED wall from a virtual camera mimicking filming on a virtual LED wall of the virtual production including: rendering pre-visualization of the virtual production; and generating technical visualization of the virtual production within a virtual environment; automatically generating a cost estimate of the virtual production based on the rendered pre-visualization and the generated technical visualization of the virtual production; and enabling requests for booking a sound stage from the digital application when the cost estimate is acceptable.