This is a huge improvement over the course offered on the learning portal. Unreal Devs please work with Black Magic and include hooks into UE on the Fusion compositing Page. 'Then' things will take off like a rocket

I know this video is going to make a lot of car image creators VERY happy.

Quick tip for people who have *issues* with the compositing showing a *black background* (at least on UE5), try to change the *Anti-Aliasing Method* in your *Project Settings* (FXAA is not supported)

This was the explanation of Composure I was waiting for a long time. Thank you for making it finally happen. Great work. I love this feature so much. #Realtime #Cinematography

this is incredibly awesome! thank you 🙏 Great job David!

Great tutorial, short and concise!

Just what I needed for an ongoing project! 😃

Thanks for sharing this David!

Whoa amazing stuff. Compositing in UE just keeps getting better 🤙🏿

Hi everyone ...to render it in movie render queue >>> go to main copmposure >>output >>> add array elements >>> player viewport compositing output >>> after that do The same for all of parts (( media_plate1, FG, Floor, floor)) Good luck

Thank you David!!!

Great tutorial. Very helpful.

So Cool, Thanks for sharing.

Thank you David for this great information. I am trying to work with something like this but using the the CGI elements to enhance a photo of a character we shot on set. Could you please share any tips on how to replicate the camera I use on set with camera I'll use on UE for compositing Thanks a lot David!

you nailed it!

Really nice video, only now how do you render it in movie render queue?

More of this thank you! :)

This is a lot of work for that simple task, i could do it in blender within seconds.

Thanks for posting this process! Exactly what I was looking for. However I noticed a massive decrease in the engine overall after completing the process and reopening the level. Any possible reason for this? My PC runs Unreal very smooth otherwise. Also I was wondering if there is a way to export the shadow from this for compositing in Photoshop or Nuke? Thanks again!

Thanks!

Great tutorial! Any suggestions on actually rendering it using Sequencer? Documentation is spotty and results are really not good.

short question: how is the shadow layer different from the floor layer? dividing those should result in a white image, why is the shadow still remaining?

Thank you!. Iam newbie in Unreal, and need some help to complete my task, how can I render the elements with the shadows in alpha in sequencer?

Hello. I'm trying to recreate this in UE5 (5.03), but for some reason in my case the Floor component also captures all shadows on the floor (without FG objects). So after dividing with Shadow layer their shadows disappears. How to fix that? Thank you. UPD: Found solution myself: in the Project Settings find "Shadow Map Method" and switch to "Shadow Maps" instead of "Virtual Shadow Maps (beta)".

I wish you continued to the rendering part .. using sequencer specially .. i couldnt succeed dropping this whole composure in a sequencer .. and another question regarding camera resolution .. was this random resolution the cinecam decided ? im asking for if i decided to import a tracked animated camera fbx ? ... Thank you so much

Can anyone give tips on getting Unreal to perspective / camera match the image plate we use?

ok so what if you have multiple camera's? do you create a floor, FG and a shadow pass for each of the camera's?

i like that pretty video

Hello! I have this setup of material nodes, and I'd like to create some CG elements outside the place made by those "shadow" planes. How to set this CG Layer in material? After using "Over" node, my new Layer is also cutted by the planes

but what about the rendering part?? by using move render Queue and movie scene capture, it still rendering the plane and those two walls. How can I get the alpha mate? dan the shadow only?

For Some reason I don't get the reflection of the spheres inside the next ones. it works in UE4, but I loose the reflections in UE5. Any idea why?

dope woo woo

Great content. However, I need to render this composition in the movie render queue to produce images and videos. Does anyone know how I can add this final comp to the sequencer?

That's so cool! Does this technique catch ambient occlusion too? That's something we can't figure out in Unity so we are trying Unreal Engine to achieve this !

This is giving us a reflection of the HDRI on the balls. How do we get a reflection of the BG plate on the balls? You would need the backplate projected into the floor texture and that floor to not be primarily visible, but only in reflections. Not sure how to do that. How would you exclude the floor from the FG layer. Do you have to make a new layer of just the objects, make them matte. That must be what the matte things are for. Yes - just tried that and at least that works.

Will you make a video, running UE4 or UE5 on M.2 SSD PCI gen 4 let us see how faster is unreal engine on it.

Anybody knows how to render that in the Sequencer? version 5.1 thank you

I would like to ask, how to output the final picture?

This is EXACTLY what i need! thank you so much! My team member did all the lighting and materials in Maya for the scene. We decided to go to unreal for lighting later. Everything i have tried to het the maya scene verbatum in the unreal level has failed. So I'm gonna render the back plate in maya and use the material less mesh as my shadowcapture. my entire dy has gone down thw toilet because of this STUPID scene, BUT NOW I HAVE A SELUTION! AHAHAHAH

Absolute great tutorial. Unfortunatelly I cannot add the comp view to be rendered using sequencer. What is the solution??

Hope this thing gets better and simpler in the near future, right now, is a mess.

Can you add reflections to the shadow catcher?

did anyone found a way to make reflections to work? i can see them in my viewport but not in the final composure layer

Does gi works on shadowcatcher?

How would i create a shadowcatcher when using a HDRI Backdrop, instead using a backplate?

Wonder if you can use this but with a video as a backdrop

can anyone please tell, what is the purpose of two vertical walls at the back ground?

Why to create two times layers with the same objects inside ? How do you manage AO and Atmospheric Fog in the scene ?

How do we export this from Movie render?

Is there a way to make the backplate alpha? Let's say the objects are animated and I just want the objects and their shadows. Just like here, but no backplate, alpha instead. Is that possible?

I followed the whole tutorial but feel like I may be missing a step somehow, I am just getting a totally black background at the end.

You never used the "Shadow" layer you created in the "Layers Window". That was a confusing unnecessary step

My objects don't receive GI, why? how to make the floor also emits gi?

is this require ray tracing to be enabled?

I followed the tutorial and it worked. I then saved everything and when I restarted the engine after enabling Lumen ray tracing, the composite is showing EMPTY, even when there's a camera and the post process material. Please help

Any idea how to render just cgi and shadow on alpha? - for post

do more tutorials for virtual production and live compositing. thanks.

All it took, is 10 minutes! 10 minutes for setting up backplate and shadowcatcher, why does it have to be so difficult? In 3ds max it's simply dragging image sequence to environment slot and shadow catcher setup, is a few clicks on material.

Noice

doesn't work with 5.1 - i get a compile error at the "over" function in th ematerial

Hmm. My shadow is white color , not black for some reason. Thank you for tutorial

My background image gets imported upside down

HOW CAN I PUT A FOREGROUND VIDEO??????????????????????????????????????????

new 5.1 VERSION PLS!!

Too many steps, quicker and easier in Blender, only reason to use Unreal is for it realtime features not static images

yada yada yah. try doing all that for 50 scenes in a music video. and the quality is just not there.

IS NOT CREATING THE LAYERS!!!!!

First!

I can't see the composure compositing in Window tab even I already downloded that plug-in,,, plz let me know where can i fine that tab in UE5 🥲