Digital Rendering Concept for Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats generated on Capture Sweden software linked to EOS offline editor. Set design generated in Vectorworks 2019.
First attempt at a Capture video with limited editing.
Digital rendering created for Titus Andronicus using Capture Sweden with Eos offline editor. Link to production photos can be found HERE
3D drafting of the Studio Theatre at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. I created this drafting in order to generate a .3ds file to put into Capture and create concept images for the director.
This was a class project to learn and discover how to create a lighting design in Capture and map video to green screens using software that a student would have at their disposal. I used the student version of Vectorworks 2019 and Capture, the free ETC EOS program to program the fixtures, and then finally Adobe Premier to add in the video and audio.
I used Vectorworks to design the stage and truss setup. The vespa symbol came from www.free3d.com. I initially designed this with people in it but then took them out in Capture and used the “actor” symbol that comes with Capture because you can edit various attributes on them.
After importing the vectorworks .3ds file into Capture, I added the audience, lights, musicians, haze, and chose 3 different views to record. The haze ends up being behind the green screens, which makes them easier to map to once i exported the file into Adobe Premier. If I had left the haze to spill out in front of the green screens, it would have been much harder and messier to map video to the screens.
in the ETC Eos file I set up the addressing/channeling, created focus and color palettes, created macros as need (especially start/stop timecode), and created a magic sheet. I then recorded all the looks into cues. In Capture, i kept the visibility at 50% so the green screens were always visible, the only true blackouts I have were made in Premiere. Because my laptop isn’t the beefiest, I recorded this at 15fps in Capture with a medium bit rate of 3.1 Mbps. This took about 45 minutes to render a 2 minute and 49 second video, which I cut down to show as an example on this website.
Capture generates an MP4 file which I then imported into Adobe Premier. At this point I also imported the audio as a separate track and downloaded vespa-themed videos from Vimeo. I then made cuts between the 3 different video angles based on the music, added green screen effects between video cuts, and added in video effects (zooming in, transitions). I’ve done very little video editing before but feel like i made a pretty solid first attempt.
A portion of the final video, edited to exclude more explicit lyrics.
