AJAbox manages the color of the new Masterwork study

Masterwork Films, company specialized in cinematographic content oriented to business contexts, has created a virtual study based on green screens and sustained in technological solutions such as colorbox and gen10 of AJA, or the unreal engine of Epic Games.

Channeling his passion for cinema, Biro Florin founded Masterwork films and 2024. Currently, he directs the company and acts as director of photography in the filming of customers for brand narration, films, ads and master classes. In addition to serving clients in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, Biro and their team manage a study of Virtual production on green screen And a equipment rental business: "Virtual production can be expensive if decorated and virtual worlds are built from scratch, so we try to reach an intermediate point with our new study, where we can obtain a good result with stock and market assets."

The new green display set in U -shaped Masterwork It is six meters wide and three and a half meters deep. It has up to 3 cameras that send an SDI signal REDWideGamutRGB (Log) of talent and green screen to its keyer while a PC sends another SDI signal that transports virtual chamber feed Unreal Engine, which also uses Redwidegamutb (log). He keyer Receive the camera sign as foreground and eliminate a flat green background, leaving an alpha layer of the actor, as well as receiving the UNREAL ENGINE SDI signal as a background signal and applies it as a background layer of the foreground.

Since both the foreground and the background signal are redwidegamutb, the image composed in the keyer It has the same flat appearance. To solve this Biro team issue, send that flat video signal through SDI to one AJA ColorBox and use Assimilate Live Looks to correct color. Next, they send the ethical exit to the director's trust monitors and the actors using the exit SDI Colorbox "Whether in a virtual production or on a traditional set, there is something magical to use a device as colorbox to load an LUT and obtain an approximate vision of how things will look, in addition to having control to adjust the color and contrast in real time," explains the Masterwork head.

Colorbox, according to Biro, also saves the team because they can do everything on the computer without having to process the signal 4:2:2 of 10 bit who are rolling; Receive the signal and emit exactly the same signal with your LUT. In addition, the Biro team can make an output or passage SDI loop, so you can send a signal from the colorbox to two recorders: one with the color gradation and the original signal as it comes out of the composition server.

Beyond colorbox, masterwork films use a AJA GEN10 Synchronization Generator since tracking solutions from their cameras and objectives have reference tickets genlock and SDI: "Before Gen10, the background broke when we moved the cameras. I quickly realized that we needed a device to synchronize all these devices that made genlock, so I installed Gen10 and the jumps have disappeared; it has been incredible."