Hasta La Motion!

Hi everybody,

Few days ago I managed to get the chrome ball and I want to shoot some HDRI images now.. I have Canon 20d with the tripod.. The problem is that I don’t have remote control for the camera (or whatever that thing is called) so I have to change Shutter Speed by touching the camera and as a result camera moves slightly for every shot… Would it be possible to connect my laptop to the camera and operate its parameters by using some kind of software? Any advices and suggestions are really welcome…

hi guy i shoot somr staf on hdtv 1080 but since avid does not take that file, and i have to convert it to quick time, what program can i use. I was using sorensom squize but its dam slow it takes to long, is there out there somthing faster and i dont want to lose any quality here since i will be using this for cg. I was thinking of using free trial of adobe premiere to import it and then export it as tiff uncopresed any sugestions would help.

Thansk

Hey guys,

At home my major matchmove software is syntheyes, and due to some staff cuts I am now doing some matchmoving with the house’s software of choice PFTrack. I have a strong understanding of it for a basic level, but there is one issue that I am having that I was hoping someone would be able to help me with.

I have an extremely long 1900 frame Aerial shot which I autotracked, cleaned up and added a few supervised of my own. When setting the scene orientation I align everything to the ground plane and all is well. Not quite… The solve goes smooth up until the revolution around the center of interest gets to the opposite side it started on. It is there that the scene orientation is way off target and is not even close to matching the ground plane.

What I am asking is how I would go about aligning the ground plane throughout the entire shot in PFTrack given the info I have shared. Sadly I cannot share the footage, but to give an example; "Large building on the left is center of interest and helicopter does a 180 around it with very little movement other than the general revolution.

Thanks a lot for your time guys.

cheers

Hello. I have a question that’s been plaguing me for awhile now. I’m using Shake for a compositing project and everything works fine. I’m pulling a key from greenscreen footage, so I’m using the lookup/hls node. First time I set it up, it works fine, and I can mess with my levels to pull a nice key. However, when I save my work, and come back to it, I am absolutely unable to access the curves editor. Just to make sure that I’m not being completely dumb, the shortcut to bring up the tweaker is apple-t, right? For some reason it just won’t work, it just keeps toggling the time bar to display a different timecode. T, apple-t, shift-t, ctrl-t, alt-t, ctrl-alt-t, apple-ctrl-t, fn-ctrl-alt-shift-apple-capslock-t, every combination you could think of just makes it toggle between seconds and frames on the time bar. Not only that, but making a new node also doesn’t let me bring up the curves editor. Even making a new project won’t let me do it. The issue only seems to occur on my macbook pro, when working on one of the macs in the studio on other projects it works just fine. This isn’t an issue of transferring across computers, the entire project has been local from start to finish, or at least start to dead end. And if I leave shake alone for awhile, like a month or so, and start a new project, it works fine again, until I save and quit, and come back to it. Then we’re back to square one.

Does anyone have any idea what’s going on? Is there an issue with my mac registering the modifier keys? Because it seems like it always just thinks I’m hitting T. Do I have the wrong shortcut? Is there a weird setting somewhere that’d make it do this?

I have used Boujou and I really like it. In boujou you can switch over to a camera view and see a mock version of your camera and the move in 3D space………….can you see the same type of view in Matchmover and PFTrack? (the camera moving and you can swivel around the camera and zoom in on the line of movement)