Disguise Designer vs Lightcraft Jetset
Disguise Designer
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| Figure | Disguise Designer | Lightcraft Jetset |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $125/mo | $16.67/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 4 |
| Spec score · Virtual Production Software | 8.4 (#3) | 8.1 (#6) |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Purpose | Designer creates a digital replica of a production environment for designing, visualising, sequencing, and controlling content. | Jetset combines CGI and live action video to create visual effects shots. |
| Support | Disguise directs technical questions to [email protected] and lists technical support phone numbers for the UK, US, and Hong Kong. | The license identifies Lightcraft as responsible for maintenance and support and lists [email protected] for inquiries. |
Plans
Disguise Designer
- Designer StarterFree
- Designer Pro$159 a month
- Designer Pro$1,500 a year
Lightcraft Jetset
- Jetset Pro$20 a month
- Cine Monthly$80 a month
- Jetset Pro$200 a year
- Cine Yearly$800 a year
In their own words
Disguise Designer
Disguise Designer creates a digital replica of a production environment for planning, visualising, sequencing, and controlling content. It supports pitch creation, camera fly-throughs, content validation, technical setup testing, and experience design. Its real-time 3D visualiser can represent productions in different codecs, resolutions, and colour spaces. Content mapping covers shaped LED screens, projectors, UV mapping, dynamic blends, and large projection canvases. Playback supports formats including NotchLC, ProRes, HAP, uncompressed codecs, image sequences, and local or remote HTML5 content. RenderStream integrates with Unreal Engine, Notch, Unity, TouchDesigner, and Volinga NeRFs. Multi-Edit enables simultaneous project editing, while Multi-Transport can run multiple timelines in response to external cues. Control options include DMX, SMPTE timecode, MIDI, OSC, FreeD, and named tracking systems. A free Starter plan supports learning, training, testing, and project development without connecting to Disguise servers; Pro costs $159/month. The user guide specifies 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and DirectX 11.
Lightcraft Jetset
Lightcraft Jetset is an iOS application for combining computer graphics and live-action video into visual-effects shots. It displays and captures the combination in real time, using phone-camera and ARKit tracking to map a scene and align live-action footage with a 3D scene. The app supports real-time rendering of production-level USDZ models and records camera-original footage, live composites, and tracking metadata. Compositing tools include AI mattes, a green-screen keyer, and 3D screen planes. Printed floor or vertical origin markers can reset tracking. Lightcraft describes post-production workflows connecting Jetset with Unreal, Blender, and USD through Autoshot, and provides a Blender add-on plus a character-conversion tool. Scene scanning is available only in Jetset Pro and Jetset Cine, requiring a LiDAR-equipped iPhone Pro or iPad Pro. The App Store listing requires iOS 18.0 or later and an A12 Bionic chip or later.