Overview
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Learn how to create solid 3D tracks for advanced visual effects using SynthEyes.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Interface overview
- Preferences overview
- Matching-moving process
- Camera basics
- Photogrammetry
- Importing and evaluating footage
- Automatic tracking
- Solving and refining
- Setting up a coordinate system
- Exporting to other software
- Analyzing the shot
- Shot and project settings
- Image preprocessing
- Setting up prediction modes for our shot
- Overview of lens distortion
- Distortion workflows
- Using Calculate Lens Distortion
- Using a lens grid to find the lens distortion
- Manually finding lens distortion
- Overview of masking and roto
- Setting up roto for cameras and objects
- Adding trackers to roto shapes
- Using alpha channels for roto
- Automatic tracking
- Features panel (semiautomatic)
- Supervised tracking
- Combining trackers
- Zero weight trackers
- Quick check
- Using the Graph Editor
- SimulTrack view
- Cleaning up trackers
- Adding many trackers
- Overview of the solver
- Solving the shot
- Refining the solve
- Overview of the coordinate system
- Automatic placement
- 3-point coordinate setup
- Manual alignment
- Adding 3D objects
- Mesh creation
- Overview of tripod moves
- Setting up a tripod shot
- 3D alignment
- Overview of object tracking
- Object tracking
- Solving for a joint moving camera and object
- Overview of export
- Exporting to After Effects
- Exporting to NUKE
- Exporting to Maya
- Exporting to CINEMA 4D
- What's next?
