3d Motion Tracking Software

[ckalan1]

What motion tracking software is available that is used to make CGI 3d objects track with real footage?

Thanks,
Craig

[Anhar Miah]

Well there are quite a few, and they range from cheapo to mega bucks,



Spectrum : Low end

Name: PFTrack (pixel farm)

Website: http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/

My view : Its a load of poop (well the version I used, but things may have changed with newer releases)

Spectrum : Mid range:

Name : Syntheyes

webiste : http://www.ssontech.com/

My view: damn good, I love it

Spectrum: High end

Name : Boujou

Website : http://www.2d3.com/

My view: pro stuff (never used myself so no comment really)

And a ton of others.


Anhar

[Greggl]

What motion tracking software is available that is used to make CGI 3d objects track with real footage?

Thanks,
Craig

Get a pro to do it for you or pound on Syntheyes till it you get good enough. Bad tracking will RUIN a shot.. and this is coming from a professional 3D tracker.

The 2 really good packages are $10K. The rest are interesting toys

[ckalan1]

Thanks Guys,

Would you like to read the parts of the script that I am thinking about doing this on? Perhaps you guys have a better idea how to pull this off.

Craig

[Greggl]

I'm game

[ckalan1]

I will send it to your email.

Thanks Craig

[surf]

and maya live, built in maya

[KingVidiot]

If you want a freebie, you can search the web for Icarus. It was the free pre-cursor to PFTrack (PFHoe).

I've seen some nice stuff done with it, but I don't know how much work it took.


This is a cool demo animation using SynthEyes to track in a real forest video:

http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=843

[Gord.T]

Mark Johnson used 'boujou 4' for Rekindling. Someone gave me an old copy of '2' a few days ago so can't comment yet. But I'm going with Mark's and Anhar's advice.

Gord

[orkan]

http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html

I would strongly suggest this soft!, didn't use it but the test footage looks promising

see ya


orkan

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