Masterwork Film

Overview

Our team was commissioned to design, install, and calibrate a complete camera tracking and virtual production pipeline for a UK-based green screen studio built around Stype RedSpy, Unreal Engine 5, and Ultimatte 12 4K keying hardware. The objective was to deliver a robust, broadcast-ready environment capable of supporting high-quality virtual sets, real-time compositing, and precise camera movement reproduction across multiple shooting configurations. The system was developed to accommodate several studio cameras fitted with Canon broadcast zoom lenses, ensuring that every camera position, focal change, and lens characteristic could be accurately translated into the virtual scene.

Challenges & Approach

One of the main technical challenges of the project was achieving reliable and repeatable calibration across a multi-camera setup, where each camera and lens combination needed to behave consistently inside the real-time environment. Broadcast zoom lenses introduce a complex layer of calibration work, particularly when zoom and focus values must remain perfectly synchronized with the virtual camera in Unreal Engine 5. To address this, we carried out a complete tracking and lens calibration workflow using Stype RedSpy, including camera alignment, lens mapping, distortion profiling, and spatial verification across the studio volume. In parallel, Ultimatte 12 4K keyers were integrated into the pipeline to ensure clean, low-latency chroma extraction suitable for high-end live compositing and virtual set operation.

The result

The final system delivered a fully operational virtual production studio capable of combining tracked live-action camera feeds with real-time Unreal Engine 5 environments in a stable and production-ready workflow. Camera motion, lens behavior, and keying performance were all tuned to operate as a unified system, giving operators and creatives a dependable platform for broadcast, branded content, and studio-based virtual productions. The result is a flexible green studio infrastructure that enables cinematic camera movement, accurate perspective matching, and seamless compositing—bringing together the precision of technical integration with the creative possibilities of modern virtual production.