MATRIX UNLOCKED | Unreal Engine Short Film (by a Beginner)

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📺 Virtual production offers an incredible way to bring your wildest imaginations to life. With today's advanced tools, achieving realistic imagery has never been more accessible.

Join Numan on his thrilling adventure as he takes on Unreal Engine, a cutting-edge software, to craft his very first short film a Matrix inspired story. In pursuit of his goals, Numan has set out to:

💡 Learn Basics of Unreal Engine 5
💡 Connect and Sync his DSLR Camera with virtual camera. Use a tracking device to generate realistic motion parallax.
💡 Use a green screen to place himself into the Unreal world.
💡 Do all of that in a Budget friendly way

Witness the inspiring results of his efforts in this showreel. To keep things engaging, technical details have been set aside for now. However, if you're eager to explore Numan's workflow and learn the ins and outs of his virtual production process, let him know your interest in the comments below. He will make a dedicated video on this topic accordingly.

🎓Skill Level: He started from scratch and learned the basics first.
⏳ Time Spent: He spent in total about 3 weeks (10h each day)
💰 Money Spent: About 500$ for 1xTracker and 2x Base stations. See links below.

He used Matrix world map and generated all cinematics himself. He tested two methods of capturing the scene:

1: Realtime Over OBS (Scenes: At home and Roof top): The syncing works perfectly but the quality of the virtual world is not as expected. This is due to realtime rendering and cam link difficulties.
Alternative solution would be using a capture card (blackmagic decklink) to provide higher quality input, output capabilities.

2: Directly in Unreal: The camera footage recorded to external ssd connected to camera. Camera movement is captured and rendered via Render Que which resulted in high quality footage but syncing issues with the camera footage. It would be wise to do use genlock for this option.

Final results of Unreal and Camera footage combined and keyed in Davinci Resolve.

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⚙️GEAR LINKS

🎬 VIRTUAL PRODUCTION GADGET
HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0. https://cutt.ly/JwpF6MbN
Valve Index Base Station (Works fine with HTC Tracker) : https://cutt.ly/MwpFPy54
Low End Green Screen (Enough for beginning) : https://cutt.ly/ZwpFY9nW
Cam Link 4k Capture Device : https://cutt.ly/1wpFINN3

📷CAMERA SETUP
Blackmagic Pocket Camera 4K : https://cutt.ly/awpFYeBC
Metabones Canon EF to BMPCC4K T Speed Booster Ultra 0.71x : https://cutt.ly/BwpFYl7t
Sigma EF 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Lens : https://cutt.ly/cwpFYWQM
Shure MV7 Microphone : https://cutt.ly/8wpFYOFY

🎬 EDITING SOFTWARE
DAVINCHI RESOLVE - https://cutt.ly/tG4UJKv

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📚 USEFUL LINKS TO LEARN UNREAL VIRTUAL PRODUCTION

⚡Tracker Links
- SteamVR App : https://store.steampowered.com/app/250820/SteamVR/
- Connecting VR Tracker without headset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiV8RhzvUHI
If your tracker only connects to one base station, you need to click the small button behind the base station (liddle hole, you need a needle for it.) to change the "channel" the base station is on.

⚡Unreal Engine 5 Tutorials
- Your first hour in UE5:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/3ke/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-5-2/vvdk/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-5-2-overview
- Intro to UE Filmmaking:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/J61/independent-filmmaking-with-unreal-engine/zGZ/unreal-engine-the-idea
- Intro to Virtual Cinematography:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/oKr/unreal-engine-intro-to-virtual-cinematography/Gxp6/unreal-engine-intro-to-virtual-cinematography-introduction
- Visualization guide from Unreal:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/paths/XRe/unreal-engine-virtual-production-visualization-guide

⚡UNIQUE SPECIFIC TUTORIALS
- Unreal Engine Virtual Reality from Richard. Done with UE4 but 90% of the stuff are still valid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQZNw9iMNs

⚡Camera Calibration:
- Manual calibration directly for your camera: Nodal Point calibration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZD_iMlowFs
- Manual Calibration in Unreal Engine from Richard. Done in UE4 applicable to UE5
https://youtu.be/XWQZNw9iMNs?t=2582
- UE4 Automatic calibration tutorial (90% the same)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-bkK5apunc

⚡Sequencer:
- https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/k73/unreal-engine-fundamentals-of-sequencer/ELx7/unreal-engine-fundamentals-of-sequencer-overview

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