An interview from the 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas with Eliot Mack of Lightcraft Technology. Lightcraft was founded to bring powerful virtual production technology to small productions. Lightcraft compressed all of the capability of their Emmy-award winning Previzion and Halide virtual production systems into the new Jetset app.

Go from script to screen without anyone’s permission. Shoot in your living room or a big production stage. Create elaborate scenes with tiny budgets. Make it like Hollywood – without the complexity or cost. Jetset Cine uses the Accsoon SeeMo converter to bring live HDMI or HDSDI video from your cine camera directly into Jetset. This revolutionary combination turns your iPhone and cine camera into a completely integrated virtual production system.

Lightcraft's lens calibration system is built right into Jetset, and works with the natural features found at hand to create a precise optical model of the cine lens, including focal length, distortion, physical offset from the Jetset iPhone, and even the angular alignment between the iPhone and the cine lens rig.

Lens calibrations are automatically stored in Jetset, and can be retrieved in seconds for fast lens changes. Each Jetset Cine take stores the corresponding lens calibration required to accurately align the cine camera footage to the iPhone tracking data. Jetset Cine includes a real time camera tracking feed in the FreeD tracking data format that links directly to the Unreal Live Link FreeD plugin for accurate live camera data.

Jetset Cine works with Autoshot to set up a Composure live composite inside Unreal, including live video inputs, green screen keying, and matte refinement. This lets you see an on-set preview of the integrated cine composite in addition to the Jetset ultra low latency live comp.

For more information please visit: www.Lightcraft.pro