A camera matching test

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:04 pm

Hey folks,

I recently purchased PixelFarms PFHoe 1.0 and did a little tracking test with a peice of footage that I shot during a car show. Its a handheld shot. This was basically a test shot. The lighting doesn't match. Nothing is textured.

http://www.wsfilms.net/trackingtest1.wmv

I was excited because I was always having trouble tracking footage in Icarus. I was having some success with Voodoo but this program is way better. I highly recommend this software. Its 49 euros which is roughly $92 I think. Great price, awesome software.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:59 pm

Wow, that's pretty cool. I tried the same thing with a Man of the Street video. But I didn't 3d it or anything: just linear up/down, side/side.

ButI did it in AE; did you have to pick one point to track it from, or was it general area boxes (I don't know, I have limited experience doing it

)?

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:43 am

maj_barnes wrote:did you have to pick one point to track it from, or was it general area boxes?

Nope. I loaded my footage in and hit the track button and it went through and tracked whatever it needed to track and then I hit the calibrate button and it went through and did its thing and then I had to orient the scene and then I exported the data for use in 3DS max.

The only trouble I'm having right now is tracking footage of driving down the road. But I'm still working on that one.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:09 am

That is pretty cool, actually.

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:08 pm

This an image from another tracking test I'm doing. I'm compositing one of them Star Trek runabouts infront of my house. The scene is already tracked but I thought I would post an image. This was more of a lighting test to try and get the 3D elements to blend correctly with the live action plate. I used an HDRI image which I took after filming the camera move. I still have a ways to go but its getting better in my opinion.

Jimbobsquarepants · Post by **Jimbobsquarepants** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:07 pm

is there any free tracking software floating around?

Djokicko · Post by **Djokicko** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:11 pm

Wow that looks pretty cool can that be done with AE becose i wanna try something like that for my movie ?

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:50 pm

It looks like a program worth investing in... I might have to try it myself.

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:50 pm

is there any free tracking software floating around?

Yeah there's a tracker called Voodoo. http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html

Wow that looks pretty cool can that be done with AE

I don't know if it can. After effects is more towards 2D. Don't take my word for it. PFHoe is mainly used to track footage for use in a 3D program like 3DS Max

It looks like a program worth investing in... I might have to try it myself.

Yeah it was definetley worth the $99 I paid for it. Like I said earlier the only trouble I'm having is tracking footage of driving down the road

Jimbobsquarepants · Post by **Jimbobsquarepants** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:29 pm

o damn it dosnt export to blender and thats what i do of my 3d in.

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:09 am

Jimbobsquarepants wrote:o damn it dosnt export to blender and thats what i do of my 3d in.

One that I forgot to mention was Icarus. If you want it just let me know. Icarus was bought out so now it is called PFTrack which is like 3,000 euro or whatever. Icarus is also used by that young man who runs peerlessproductions.com

He done a video tutorial on how to use the software and how to set everything up in Blender.

Jimbobsquarepants · Post by **Jimbobsquarepants** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:04 am

yes i would like it sounds good, but 3 grand? im only 14 you know

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:38 pm

Jimbobsquarepants wrote:yes i would like it sounds good, but 3 grand? im only 14 you know

Ok. I'm gonna upload it to my server Monday because I have dial up here at my house but the library has DSL. The file size is 46.0 MB.

Jimbobsquarepants · Post by **Jimbobsquarepants** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:48 pm

er, so how do i get it?

Djokicko · Post by **Djokicko** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:40 pm

Jimbobsquarepants wrote:er, so how do i get it?

Download Icarus it is good but it is only for non-commercial using here is the link:
http://www.peerlessproductions.com/tuts ... carus.html
Also download this guys video tuts so you can understand it ,they helped me.

The only problem i have is combining the 3d render clip with the original video clip does anyone now how to do this.

wildstorm · Post by **wildstorm** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:49 pm

Djokicko wrote:
Jimbobsquarepants wrote:er, so how do i get it?
Download Icarus it is good but it is only for non-commercial using here is the link:
http://www.peerlessproductions.com/tuts ... carus.html
Also download this guys video tuts so you can understand it ,they helped me.

The only problem i have is combining the 3d render clip with the original video clip does anyone now how to do this.

Are you going to be using the tracking data in After Effects or in a 3D Program?

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