Hi Cory
Just a quick heads up for topics for our session on 24th Jan. If you can respond with answers before we can focus in the session on those that need more discussion.
In addition to earlier questions raised:
- Sensor positioning. In a recent capture my hair (grey) gave appearance of part of my head missing. It won’t be me captured for Biennale but should there be a second camera overhead? Replacing which one?
- Moving Sensors further away from subject to provide more performance space. The raised stage is 2mx2m but if sensors have to be 50cm away from subject for correct focus, this reduces capture footprint to 1m X1m (the case now). Would like to create capture stage in focus area to 1.5 x 1.5m. Am I correct in this assumption about 50cm+ subject distance from sensors for good focus?
- Lighting. Low (standard florescent tubes) and fix in post, or get it right with proper lighting (in place) avoiding post? Arcturus are doing post so would prefer they do it.
- Hero cameras at higher than 1440p if need to degrade others down from 1440p to 1080p for pc to accommodate them?
- Objects included in capture not held by subject. Eg Paint pot and brush on floor. Coiled Rope. etc. Does background removal algorithm in DS release 7.1 and 8.0 beta exclude them? Ideas to resolve if they do?
- Best settings for single human capture. Assume person is semi naked and partly painted.
- In 5 above colours to avoid? Eg painting body white with black and red body painting made during the capture? Is this ok?
- Best length of capture given that dropped frames increase over time. 3-5 mins has been requested. What level of dropped frames per min is acceptable?
- Export for Arcturus? OBJ? They are preparing capture for input to Unity project to stream via ano Cloud service to visitor smartphones (Android and iPhone).
- I will also deploy streaming to HoloLens2 as I already have this capability. Will I need to Export captures in a different format from that needed by Arcturus for smartphones?
- Best method for getting 12 captures to Arcturus, New York without degrading them by sending over the internet (?) Or can this be done without degrading over the internet? How much storage needed? PC has c3.5Tb on D drive dedicated to captures 1Tb on C drive dedicated to applications including DepthKit and Win10.
- Following 24th can I send one or two test captures to you to check outcomes before I proceed with full captures for Biennale artists? And Arrange a follow up session for say, Thurs 1st Feb? We Start capturing artists 7/8 Feb. If payment needed please let me know how much? If quid pro quo, we could ensure DepthKit and Scatter are mentioned in Media. Biggest broadcaster in China with 500Million subscribers is coming at the curator’s invitation to feature the Contemporary Artist event.
That’s it for now.
Thanks again Cory.
Kind regards
Terry