Hasta La Motion!

I ‘m coming to know if maybe someone have adifferent approach. and to have some answere for those questions:

– In this case is it better to set the auto track as a free move or maybe something else (none).

– in this case where do you put your initial frame?

– is it an obligation to undistord the picture before tracking (and how can i undistord this picture (where are the straightline for y))?

– in Pftrack, when you use a user track and it failed, is it a good idea to use the hide function and later replace the tracker and continue. Or simply create a new tracker

– In pfT solver do you change the camera Translation and/or Rotation?

Thank you for all ideas

B

or http://vimeo.com/27285752

Hey guys how do I rescale footage so that when I import the scene into Maya it isn’t humongous in size?

These shots have no distortion grid and I have no information about the focal length or film back, etc. In addition, there’s no preset track points (I have to use whatever is in the scene).

This sounds pretty longwinded, but I was wondering if anyone on here had experience with the really REALLY tricky matchmoves and if they’d be willing to impart any wisdom upon me. I’d post the clips but unfortunately I’m not allowed.

What I’ve tried thus far:
– crunched the contrast of the shot to create more hard points
– garbage matted whatever was moving
– increased target features
– lowered tracking threshold
– estimated focal length and oriented scene

As I said, some shots will track but can’t solve. Some will just boot me out of the track altogether. The option is always there to tell the director that these shots simply cannot be tracked, but I need to be 100% sure that I’ve exhausted every option.

Thanks

Currently I am working on a short film. One of the shots show a person pouring milk out of a carton. The film is shot in live action however I want to insert 3d animation for the carton and the milk.

Im using

Maya 2011 for the modelling & rendering,
PFtrack for the tracking composition and
Realflow 5 for the milk effect.

I insert the 3d carton into PFtrack and use its tracking to link the 3d object to the live action footage. Exporting this into Maya shows that the camera moves and not the 3d carton.

Therefore…

How am I supposed to get the carton to pour milk if the 3d carton doesnt move? Realflow requires the 3d object to move as to get the physics, right?

I hope this is clear enough, im tearing my hair out here any help would be fab

cheers

I have to track an animals head. Its the same animal in diffrent Shots from diffrent angels.

After Solving i set the Eye distance to the real measured distance. Then I export to Maya, there I align the same head wich the animator will use to the solved pointcloud. After I aligned it, I create a Loactor so he can just constrain his Rig to it, so it will match.

I find this workflow pretty complicated and undhandy, doing it for all Shots. Is there a way to align the head automatically to the solved points, so I dont have to match it in all Shots manual?? If someone has an better Workflow or tipps i would be very pleased 🙂

thanks in advance
LOUIS