3D Tracker ?
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Anhar_Miah
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I don't know of any free trackers for the mac, but for the PC Voodoo comes to mind as well as Icrus.
I suppose you could run a windows emulator on your Mac and then run the tracker inside of it... a long shot.
Or just hand track, you might be pleasently surprised, sometimes hand tracks can be just as good.
I suppose you could run a windows emulator on your Mac and then run the tracker inside of it... a long shot.
Or just hand track, you might be pleasently surprised, sometimes hand tracks can be just as good.
Anyone good at using voodoo?
Couldn't find any tutorials. I was able to follow the directions in the readme and got a decent motion match off the sample footage and exported it into blender. The motion is a little choppy.
There are a lot of settings on voodoo that I'm not familiar with. I am new to 3d tracking. I see voodoo pretty much just analyzes the footage with tons of points. Is there other software where I can:
place balls (tennis or ping pong) in my footage, take measurements of each ball relative to my camera, then input that data into the 3d tracker, and then have it solve for camera motion? Is this the way it's typically done?
Couldn't find any tutorials. I was able to follow the directions in the readme and got a decent motion match off the sample footage and exported it into blender. The motion is a little choppy.
There are a lot of settings on voodoo that I'm not familiar with. I am new to 3d tracking. I see voodoo pretty much just analyzes the footage with tons of points. Is there other software where I can:
place balls (tennis or ping pong) in my footage, take measurements of each ball relative to my camera, then input that data into the 3d tracker, and then have it solve for camera motion? Is this the way it's typically done?
Batutta
Major Contributor
I used this and got an amazing result, but it's only free at 720X480 resolution. A company bought it and you can only get the HD and up version for like 3,000 dollars. It's pretty amazing though, works with blender and after effects, and if all you need is SD rez I'd use it.
http://www.peerlessproductions.com/tuts/pages/Icarus.html
http://www.peerlessproductions.com/tuts/pages/Icarus.html
Mark Johnson
The Dude Abides
I seem to remember that syntheyes had a mac version that was amazingly cheap but amazingly good. It's been a couple years but I recall being blown away by both the price and the performance.
oneinfiniteloop
Veteran
We use SynthEyes here, and for our tracking needs it works great.
djembeplay
Well-known member
Hey,
I'm pretty new to 3D... What exactly is a 3D tracker? Is it something that takes a tracked 2D image and applies it to a coordinate plane in 3D?
I'm pretty new to 3D... What exactly is a 3D tracker? Is it something that takes a tracked 2D image and applies it to a coordinate plane in 3D?
Gord.T
Still "Senior Member"
You take a video that you want to add an object to.
Import the video footage, avi or image sequence and track it.
That creates a camera file that you import into your 3D program.
Place an object in your scene, your video as a background, import & assign that camera and your object fits into the scene.
Here's a link. It's uses boujou but is the same idea behind any other tracker.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=115440