KINO FLO’S MIMIK IMAGE-BASED LIGHTING TILE FOR VIRTUAL SETS

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Mimik is an image-based video lighting tile that creates the utmost realism on-set, particularly full spectrum foreground lighting for virtual sets, with its ability to mirror content while instantly applying a higher tonal and colour rendering range. Its extended spectral bandwidth and cinematic colour fidelity are aimed at lighting talent and set elements in virtual production environments.

Successfully lighting foregrounds relative to backgrounds in a volume requires the level of illumination that Mimik has been engineered to deliver. LED screens traditionally output between 800 – 1,200 nits. By comparison, Mimik outputs 8,000 nits.

Mimik’s capabilities go beyond lighting the foreground by direct video feed while filling out the spectrum, with the ability to shoot as high as 960fps and offer as many as 32 Alpha channels at 30fps.

Driven by the Megapixel VR Helios LED processor, the Mimik 120 is a lighting fixture that delivers on-set flexibility for control through either the Helios processor or by assigning certain functionality to the lighting desk. This resolves jurisdictional issues in the filmmaking community between VFX and on set lighting teams.

Embodied in a lightweight carbon fibre frame (12.5kg for a 600x1200mm panel), Mimik adapts to on-set configurations with easy mobility and expands real-time and postproduction options with technology that enables latency-free synchronisation to an LED volume while affording lighting departments control over parameters such as dimming and positioning and colour control.

Mimik 120 incorporates Kino Flo’s patented Matchmaker technology that addresses the inherent challenges associated with lighting in LED volumes, translating an incoming RGB video signal into five individual emitters (warm white, cool white, red, green and blue) to generate synchronised, full spectrum foreground lighting for the utmost realism on-set.