Motion control 2004-07-14 - By Norbert Eßer
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Well, i would add Motiontracker to the list but it's.....
Eahm....aeeeh.....mmm... 9600 Euro ;-)
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Von: TSML [mailto:truespace@(protected)] Im Auftrag von James
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2004 17:06
An: truespace@(protected)
Betreff: Re: [TSML] Motion control
Thanks for the info Anthony, it is indeed very helpful.
James
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From: "Anthony Ware" <anthony@(protected)>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Motion control
> James,
>
> Well, this is usually done the opppsite way around - replicating an
existing
> real-life camera path in a CG package like tS so that CG elements can
> be combined with the real-live footage.
>
> There are two such motion match packages I am aware of that support
> trueSpace, PFTrack (formerly known as Icarus) and SynthEyes. Neither
> are cheap - motion match ability is a 'big boys' toy and comes at a
> cost. The results are usually highly dependant on having suitable live
> footage to be motion matched in the first place as well. Having tried
> both PFTrack (when it was Icarus) and SynthEyes I found SynthEyes to
> be the easiest to understand and use but others may disagree.
>
> The PFTrack website appears to be down but the link is:
> http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/
>
> and for SynthEyes:
> http://www.ssontech.com/
>
> The cheap and dirty solution is to set up the live action shoot,
> measure everything accurately - camera location, location of some
> markers on the set, camera lens data etc. and then build a virtual set
> in tS to try and match. There is a lot of trial and error and jiggery
> pokery required to
get
> anything like a decent result with this method, but it is cheap.
>
> You pays your money and you takes your choice....
>
> Anthony
>
> > From: TSML [mailto:truespace@(protected)] On Behalf Of James
> > Sent: 13 July 2004 13:31
> > To: truespace@(protected)
> > Subject: [TSML] Motion control
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anybody knows how to replicate exact motion from tS
> >camera path into composition software like Adobe After Effects? I
> >>think
> there is a need to do likewise as to replicate a video
> >camera motion in tS camera path so the 3D object appears to blend
> >>into
the
> video.
> >
> > Many thanks for those who can help me.
> > James
>
>
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