The Accsoon SeeMo and Lightcraft Jetset Cine app allow you to use your iPhone 15 Pro Max as a camera tracker and real-time previsualization device. The whole idea behind this combination is to dramatically reduce the cost of getting into virtual production.
Key features
- Jetset Cine turns any cinema camera into a fully-tracked virtual production system using an iPhone mounted on the camera and an Accsoon SeeMo HDMI or HD-SDI input for the iPhone.
- Lightcraft Jetset Cine offers the lowest latency in the industry, providing a tight connection between the generated background and the live foreground – right on the iPhone.
- The Live Render Preview feature allows cinematographers to assess lighting, composition, and the match between foreground and background in real-time.
So how does it work?
Lightcraft’s Jetset Cine can turn any cinema camera into a fully-tracked virtual production system using an iPhone mounted on the camera and an Accsoon SeeMo HDMI or HD-SDI input for the iPhone. The Accsoon SeeMo provides real-time video feed from the main camera into the iPhone that Jetset uses for tracking. By comparing the elements seen in both video feeds, Jetset Cine can create an accurate camera offset and lens calibration in minutes.
A final composite image is achieved using Lightcraft Jetset Cine with very low latency. Most systems rely on external GPU-based rendering systems, incurring delays in output, processing, and return to the camera. In comparison, Lightcraft renders the background right on the iPhone, completing the render in a single frame. The minimal delay means cinematographers using Jetset Cine sense a tight connection between the generated background and the live foreground.
The Jetset Cine Live Render Preview feature feeds tracking information to Unreal, enabling Lightcraft’s back-end pipeline, Autoshot, to create a keying and compositing function in Unreal’s Composure tool. The result is a full-quality render and composite that allows cinematographers to assess lighting, composition and the match between foreground and background in real-time.
This does look like a very clever solution, but you do need to mount quite a lot of hardware onto your camera to get everything to work.
At the upcoming BSC Expo in London, two Accsoon CineView HE long-range transmitters will be used in a demonstration to deliver the iPhone and main camera signals to a switcher in the booth. The CineView HE transmitters and receivers are dual-band and deliver the same image simultaneously over each band, intelligently recombining both in the receiver to combat interference on either band.
Price & Availability
The Accsoon SeeMo HDMI costs $179 USD and the SeeMo Pro SDI costs $349 USD. Jetset Cine is priced at £80/month and £800/year and is available for download on the iPhone App Store.
