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Hey everyone. Time for promised update
I constantly listen to all the feedback even if im not very active here and i always think how we can improve things.
Short story:
- We increased bitrate of the scenes to ensure higher image quality
that should preserve more details
- We added more sharpness (almost maximum of whats possible without oversharpening)
that should improve sharpness of the image
- We refined PT color correction
that should bring better experience and better immersion
- We fixed the halo around the model by shrinking down the alpha mask.
that will help to get rid of annoying halo and improve immersion
- US PT studio is working now with Melody Marks scene being released end of august
Channel Camryn is filmed a week ago
Demi Hawks booked for august 22
and more coming soon
You will start noticing the changes listed above with current releases except for the scene with Lia Lin
The scene with Lia is unfixable due to focus mistake on production side. We cant do anything about it
While i applied maximum sharpness it helps only to some extent.
Long story:
Talking about EU PT studio it is obvious that most of the models will be European.
- Yes a lot of you dont like the girls
- Yes a lot of them dont speack English well
Those two points ⬆️ i can't change. I cant give those girls English lessons or bring American girls to Europe.
So that's something out of my powers. Yet it affects scenes performance.
American passthrough studio was recently built and its coming to its full potential now.
I recently stepped in as a post-production team lead like 2 months ago.
Since then there've been several changes implemented to improve quality of the scenes and not only passthrough.
There are two sides production and post-production.
And as you may have noticed with Lia Lin scene - what was messed up on production side sometime unfixable in post despite common practice of fixing in post.
With this i dont blame the Production team, we are all humans and things happen, but post-production team constantly gives our feedback on every little thing we notice while post-processing the footage.
The rest is on production side to test and change things based on the given feedback.
I'm in constant contact with George, producer of EU PT scenes and i have suggested several improvements to improve image quality such as:
- Better/moderate light
on previous US PT set different light setup was used. George operates his lights to his knowledge and tries to fit to the same conditions.
From my personal opinion the model is lit too well and the contrast/depth is partly lost because of that.
As from what i know George equipped his set with new lights to fix that problem, These newer light scenes will be released in about a month.
- Lense / focus
The clarity of the picture was bugging me as well for as long as the EU PT started.
i was thinking for all that time what could be the problem.
im pretty sure George figured out the focus
i was suspecting that too much light was causing the loss of details and i suggested to rethink the lighting setup
i was suspecting the the lense wasn't clear enough and i suggested to clean lense better prior every set with wet tissue wipes instead of dry tissue
Now regarding
- Positions:
i'm not very proficient on production side, though i've been on several sets, but i'm sure George is reading comments on every PT scene released and tries to improve what users don't like.
- Scale
There are three types of scale which i will explain below
Firstly the prehistory:
as you may know or now know we gave up on the modified lense if you know what it is you know
but basically canon lense has a smaller ipd of 60mm which is alsmot smallest ipd of any grownup man
we had a modified lense that was widened manually to 62-64 mm to improve scale issue while back then
since the project is unique and technically complicated it requires a lot to be made right
the latest lenses were causing us issues with focus and clarity so we went back to original lenses
its a tradeoff between clarity and scale
Now still about Scale and its 3 types:
- Type 1. Regular NON-PT scenes
For non-pt scenes scale is somewhat fine.
Considering that we use unmodified lense, we managed to preserse somewhat natural scale of the model.
While Camera Lens IPD does affect the scale, another important thig that affects the scale is the background/room.
In regular scenes the Model and the Background are backed to each other because its one image.
However with the help of AI Passthrough technology you can now enjoy regular scenes in PT.
But we set the scale or horizontal alignment without consideration of the use of AI PT on these scenes.
So when you watch regular scenes with its original background the scale should be fine.
Should you turn on the AI passthrough the scale might change because you now have a different background that is cast from you headset cameras which have different ipd then original camera on which the scene was filmed.
But i think regular scenes are mostly watched without PT. I might be wrong here, but we are researching this matter.
- Type 2. Passthrough scenes.
Now here is the tricky part.
While we film PT scenes on the same Camera that is used for regular scenes - these are specifically Passthrough scenees and most users watch it in Passthrough mode, while some might be watching it without passthrough and that's why we color the green background into grey/dark gray to let those users enjoy it without pt.
I also noticed that the model in PT looks small, while when you switch off PT she looks normal size.
As stated in previous point - headset cameras have different IPD and that is what causing this scale missmatch.
That is somewhat easily fixable by adjusting the horizontal alignment either in our post processing or in the headset settings.
Now the question is: To which users should be alight the scale? The ones who watch it in PT or those who watch in without PT?
You'd say its PT right? We should alight it to the majority of the PT users. But now whoever watches those scenes without PT the model will appear bigger.
We now increase scale specifically for PT scenes so when you watch it in PT the model is somewhat normal size.
I think it's still not enought and we might increase scale even more so you dont have to fiddle with the settings.
But one thing remain problematic is that when the model moves back and forth her scale changes from small to normal. And that is yet to be solved but not on production or post-production side.
- Type 3. AI Passthrough.
A combination of Regular and Passthrough scenes
Not really the point of this thread but its a passthrough and scale is affected there as well.
Here we cant help with the scale since its a regular scene with regular background and our goal is to preserve scale that is relevant with the background.
I've raised my feedback regarding that issue and its up to the relevant department that can manage that matter.
One thing its good for is that you can clearly notice a difference of scale between PT scale and non PT scale while you switch in between.
Regarding positions
Ive been to several production sets but I'm not really sure if its possible to fix positions
How do you even expect to watch sitting, laying, standing and missionary from one single position?
i don't get that part
besides, if we to go ahead and adjust the image/dick to one constant point it would look like this:
thats just one example
you can see that dicks are in same spot but the image gets cropped
not sure how that would look in headset but i think not very good
on production side i can only imagine
By the way
most probably visiting George in September with member of US production to check some things and hopefully fix something.
Still there is always a room for improvement and i will be doing my best to try and make it better
I'd love to help everyone with everything but simply don't have that much time
