During this year’s NAB Show, Beeble and The VPX Lab are demonstrating a new approach to filmmaking: a fully portable virtual production workflow that brings previews, production and post into a single, iterative process.
Presented in an off-site private demonstration setting in Las Vegas, the showcase transforms a hotel terrace into a working film studio running on laptops from Puget Systems, illustrating how advances in AI relighting, real-time environments and virtual cameras are reshaping content creation.
At the core of the demonstration is a broader shift in filmmaking workflows, where the studio becomes portable, production becomes editable, and smaller teams gain access to large-scale production capabilities.
The session offers a practical look at how these technologies move beyond theory into real-world production environments.
A New Kind of Production Pipeline
A showcase of the complete filmmaking process from concept through to the final shot, using a compact, on-location setup that brings traditionally separate stages into a single continuous workflow.
It begins in a virtual environment, where scenes are blocked and explored using high-fidelity worlds built with tools such as Terra from District Cinema and Gaussian-splat environments from XGRIDS and WorldLabs. Rather than treating this as previs alone, the environment becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
From there, directors move seamlessly into shot development, rehearsing camera moves, staging and performance in real time using virtual cameras, markerless motion capture and environments built in Unreal Engine. Decisions that would typically be deferred to later stages are made early, while the scene remains fluid and adjustable.
Production then shifts to a physical setting, where actors are filmed on location using cinema cameras and spatial tracking. Without the need for LED volumes or greenscreen, the setup remains lightweight and portable while still capturing the data required for downstream transformation.
This footage is then processed using Beeble’s AI technology, including SwitchLight and SwitchX, where lighting and environments can be reshaped after capture. Instead of being locked at the point of shooting, key creative decisions remain open, allowing scenes to be refined, relit and recontextualised in post.
As Conrad Curtis, Production and Partnerships Lead at Beeble, explains:
“What is changing is that production is no longer the point where decisions get locked in. You can carry creative intent all the way through the process, shaping light, environment and performance even after the shoot. This is the infrastructure for the age of generative cinema that has the creative control filmmakers expect, and fundamentally changes how films will be made.”
The result is a finished cinematic shot, produced through a workflow in which production and post-production are no longer separate phases but part of a single iterative process.
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