One the best tutorials ever. Accurate, light, specific and not boring. Thank you very much, you made me appreciate a software with an unfriendly interface and workflow in a blink of an eye!
This was awesome .. Straight to the point, fast and simple. I always struggled with Boujou and Syntheyes because pftrack seemed too difficult .. Thank you so much. And you should profit with this.. great content
This is probably the best PFTrack tutorial around! Would love if you could show of the mesh/zdepth generation thing - although this is awesome! Thank you foulmouth!
Brilliant tutorial dude, thank you so much for making this. Love the swearing and your personality coming through in it too, makes this not boring to watch/learn which is a pretty hard thing for something like this. :)
First time i see a tutorial on this program, i gotta admit you are defitnetly a good teacher!! Few have your gift!! Can you please do more? Does this software do everything mocha pro does? Can you show how to track a special effect maybe on someones face or something?
wow you actually sound like a real person instead of a tutorial guy!! amazing. how's your experience with pftrack continuing? i'm using it in 2021 and curious about the lidar stuff and other tricks!
A shot that was absolutely BRUTAL for me recently in a film I was the VFX Supervisor on involved a locked off shot of a woman cutting a mans stomach open, and I had to create the cut as it happened with a knife and make the wound both appear, and then afterwards magically disappear. The actor was contracting and contorting and twisting, and her knife pattern was not exactly a straight line. I tried my BEST to make this shot work in MOCHA PRO "even though I've purchased PFTrack 2017 a year ago", because I've never really had time since getting it to actually work on learning it at all. Do you think PFTrack would've been a better suited package to handle something like that? You mentioned doing a face tracking tutorial and I'm very curious to know if this would be able to handle that kind of a shot for the future. I had 39 total shots on that film and THAT one is the one that is going to make the movie look cheap because it looks BARELY PASSABLE, but we ran out of time :/
I know exactly the kind of shot your talking about. I’d have suggested looking into something called vector warp in Nuke. If you can get your hands on it sometimes it works magic. As for the face tracking tutorial it’s currently on the list.
Thanks brotha. I'll look into that. I don't use Nuke, but A) is it available on Mac? D) do you happen to know the cost for both it, and the Vector plug? I'll research it regardless, thanks brotha.
Yeah. It’s an effect in Nuke X I believe. Which isn’t cheap. But it’s a life saver in a pinch. I suggest you degrain the shot a bit before using as it can cause hell with the track. You’d be surprised how much this is used in the industry.
What an amazing tutorial! Thanks a lot! Have a question - so there is no way to import a projected texture from pftrack to AE? So if I were to create a projection plane with a texture, I'd have to do it inside of AE manually?
Unfortunately you are correct. If your going all AE then you need to do everything manually inside AE. You will only ever get cameras and nulls from PFTrack.
This is the best PFTrack tutorial I have seen. You talk like Eli the computer guy. Are you related? I am still having problems with my scene. I got a camera moving forward, and I am having trouble tracking it. The orient scene is the hardest part I find.
Thanks for the comment. It's always feels good to know you've helped someone. No relation to Eli lol. Orient scene is pretty tricky and unfortunately it's crucial for a solid track. Keep playing with it and keep looking up tutorials. You'll find the sweet spot eventually. Good luck.
@@TroubleShotVFX One quick question. Some tutorials do the user track, then the auto track, and other tutorials do the auto track first. Does the order matter at all?
@@TheTimeProphet The order doesn't really matter but I always make a habit of starting with user tracks that are centered around the important areas. Any are where you will be adding an effect mostly. Then an auto track to back up that information. But most importantly be conservative with you auto track because if you have a ton of points then you may have to go back do a lot of manual cleanup for false corners and such. But depending on the shot you can go with one or the other. It always feels great when a solid auto track does all the work for you.
@@TroubleShotVFX Thanks I got my scene tracked perfectly. Not a millimetre of movement. I already got around this problem another way, but the texture paint wouldn't work for me. I was able to draw a square but it wouldn't paint. I have a slightly newer version of pftrack, but that is the only bit that wouldn't work for me.
Hello sir. This video is amazing. So informative. Ive just recently upgraded camera and software. I was wondering something. I have shot plates like this, in 4k, 50fps handheld. Tried my absolute best to get accurate tracks when bringing into Maya. Seems to always remain slightly jittery or slides. Is that to do with my camera and rolling shutter do you think, or is it that i am just not advanced enough with tracking? I know this is a super broad question.
Hard to say exactly what the problem is. Usually if everything is looking good in PF track but is off in maya or max then I tend to find that there is an import error somewhere. Either my FPS are not aligned with the plate in max/maya or the start times are off by a frame or two. Try shifting the footage a bit I. Either direction to see if the track aligns. Then again it could just be a tough shot that needs lots of love to get right.
@@brendansapp I figured it out. You have to convert the footage to image sequence with any editing tool like After Effects. Then You can drag the first frame into the PFTrack and it works fine.
Hey mate, thanks very much for the clear and detailed tutorial! I've been practicing tracking a lot lately, but even though I'm now getting decent solves, I'm having trouble with the resulting scale when importing into 3dsmax. Max interprets the script file fine, except for the scale, which is like 1000x too small. This makes things like fire and smoke simulations impossible! Do you have any clues as to how I could fix this? I've tried playing with the scale multiplier in PFtrrack on the export node but it' doesn't solve the problem. The scale indicator in the scene in PFTrack is even correct (the 1m scale indicator). It's so frustrating since I've invested so much time into PFtrack now, but it's essentially useless once I get into Max.
hi, i have a problem....the program don´t show me the footage, why? and when im going to drop the grab video dont show me the "plus" to added, it´s forbidden says me
It could be a multitude of things but I’d start with checking to see if the codec is compatible. You’ll have to go through the menu to your video and if the thumbnail doesn’t show the codec isn’t compatible.
Depends on the type of effect you want to achieve. If the distortion is very slight and my effect doesn’t require pixels precision then no I don’t have to. It’s a bit of a process to undistort the footage and then I’d have to cover exporting the undistorted footage sequence and then I’d have to cover re distorting it in comp and it’s an entire process that really warrants its own tutorial.
Has anyone used PFtrack v2018? I’m new to this and the interface has changed a bit from v2017. I’m trying to figure out how to create a new project from scratch! It’s a bit confusing. Can someone send me a screenshot?
thanks for tutorial, but I think even AE 3d cam tracker can handle such shots. But what about to track the shot where the camera rotate to left and right? I'm trying to track camera from video game, I think it's imposible
That’s the point. Trying to track in AE is really hot or miss. Sometimes it nails it other time it won’t for no reason. That’s when you need a sturdy external tracker to get the job done. If I’ve learned one thing from working with trackers in the industry. Nothing is impossible to track if you have the talent, time and resources. But that can be said if most things.
you're right, I'm just trying to use it for fun and I've tried for the video game. Spent 3 hour to user track in PFtrack - and all are garbage in result =( The smooth scenes are not the problem, but when you, for example, are staying on the ship wheel and during turns your hands can overlap the view, and there is a lot of water + your ship is swaying on waves - it's the real pain in the ass to track the ship's deck. I've tried to find any tutorials on YT how to track difficult scenes in every software (like rotating camera, peeking out of the corner, swaying on waves and etc.), every example is just simple and smooth. Maybe you have some tutorials about it? I was talking about Sea of thieves game, you can check what kind of swaying is in this games. But anyway, thanks for the reply.
Today I've tried to track this scene (the goal was to insert kind of GPS navigator near compass) ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=gCghCZEaMPY . it's kind of soft, but I didn't handle that. in result I've got 3d axes and surface rotating as crazy )) Also I have this shot ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=jNNCr0XaFE0 , it's like 1st, but more difficult. Tomorrow I'll try this ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=J3uolU7LzJY , even AE can handle such shot, but more often it's like endless "Solving camera" banner =) On this shot I'll try to put something on the map table and table.
sorry, I sent wrong links. 1st video ruclips.net/video/gCghCZEaMPY/видео.html , 2nd ruclips.net/video/jNNCr0XaFE0/видео.html , 3rd ruclips.net/video/J3uolU7LzJY/видео.html
Listen, Jerry, I don’t want to overstep my bounds or anything. It’s your house. It’s your world. You’re a real Julius Caesar, but I’ll tell you some, tell you how-how I feel about school, Jerry. It’s a waste of time, a bunch of people running around, bumping into each other. G-guy up front says, “two plus two.” The people in the back say, “four.” Then the bell rings, and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can take a dump or something. I mean, it’s-it’s not a place for smart people, Jerry, and I know that’s not a popular opinion, but it’s my two cents on the issue.
I dont speak english and I dont have a fuck how to put my video to program. It shows me crossed circle. What means "gonna give you an X but the X will turn into this plus"? I dont have plus, I have crossed circle
You’re right. It doesn’t take an hour. Takes about 15 minutes in fact. But it takes me an hour to explain it to little potatoes like you who don’t have the base intelligence to instantly assume that it’s takes longer to teach something than to do it on autopilot.
hey how did you disable OpenGL processing and enable CUDA processing, because of this thing I have to disable my graphics driver and then the PF track open fine !!!! any solution, please.
thanks so much for this really good tutorial, you really seem like someone who's been doing this enough to make it feel like routine (for the first time I really laughed at someone swearing this much lol) thanks again mate
This tutorial is the epitome of what EVERY tutorial should be!!! The information shared in here made me excited to find the time to try and track my own shots! Thank u for this video!!!
00:56 "I'll assume you don't know anything about it" this is where most RUclips tutorial fails to teach. Always assume that viewer is a complete idiot and hence it helps to cater all the audience
There´s no need. You answer everything in this video! I got a few problems and keep removing by hand. I finally find how to adjust by reds or duration of track.
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One the best tutorials ever. Accurate, light, specific and not boring. Thank you very much, you made me appreciate a software with an unfriendly interface and workflow in a blink of an eye!
Best of Best ever tutorial.....awesome! thanks
There are not a lot of tutorials with this amount of explanation out there! Thanks man! It is really appreciated!
your sarcasm is both amazing and relevant love this tutorial :)
I'd wish the rest of the tutorials out there in RUclips were a tenth of the quality and straightforward as this one is.
Cheers Dan, you rock mate!
This was awesome .. Straight to the point, fast and simple.
I always struggled with Boujou and Syntheyes because pftrack seemed too difficult ..
Thank you so much.
And you should profit with this.. great content
best pftrack tutorial ever made. congrats
This tutorial is just AMAZING!!! Thank you for this.
The description was very complete
I saw all your videos from beginning to end several times
thanks a lot
best pf track crash course . period.
You are so talented for tutorials! Narration and explaining is on another level! GJ👌👍
Super tutorial for begginers! I've just got the PFtrack 2017. Thank you very much from Russia!
This is probably the best PFTrack tutorial around! Would love if you could show of the mesh/zdepth generation thing - although this is awesome! Thank you foulmouth!
Brilliant tutorial dude, thank you so much for making this. Love the swearing and your personality coming through in it too, makes this not boring to watch/learn which is a pretty hard thing for something like this. :)
Very Much Usefull...please continue uploading this type of learning tutorials... I really like this stuff....
this is perfect for what I'm trying to learn cheers :) maybe the best PFTrack video so far I seen on RUclips
the best pftrack tutorial still relevant in 2020
BEST PF TRACK TUTORIAL..THANKS SIR
wow. this was so helpful. you explained everything so clearly. thanks a lot. subscribed.
Best tutorial in the land.
Great tutorial, ended with a cliff hanger🔥🙌
Great tutorial. A brilliant refresher course. Thanks very much dude.
Thank you, sir, for this tutorial, One of the best video which in never seen before for this software.
you're a good teacher. keep it up!
this video has already helped me a lot. Thank you friend!
this guy deserve more sub
This is great!! Thank you so much! Hope to see more!!
First time i see a tutorial on this program, i gotta admit you are defitnetly a good teacher!! Few have your gift!! Can you please do more? Does this software do everything mocha pro does? Can you show how to track a special effect maybe on someones face or something?
This is pure gold
This is amazing dude! Please do a facial tracking tut! Thanks a bunch!
NICE !
this is the best fucking tutorial ever.
Awesome tutorial! Nice one
Awesome stuff man, bring the facial tracking tutorial
Best tutorial out there, 100/10
Hello and thank you for this tutorial. Please do more on this theme with the workflow Pft->3ds. Thank you once again and with you all the best!
Best ever tutoria
someone really tried to make this software as different as possible. cool tutorial though
very informative and a great tutorial ! i love it thanks. :D
You got a Sub, it's my first time using it.
Please keep on doing Tutorials!
what a nice tutorial. thanks.
You made an amazing tutorial man! I made an awesome track, THANK YOU! You gained a subscribe :) Cheers from Italy
wow you actually sound like a real person instead of a tutorial guy!! amazing. how's your experience with pftrack continuing? i'm using it in 2021 and curious about the lidar stuff and other tricks!
Awesome tutorial, keep it up!
A shot that was absolutely BRUTAL for me recently in a film I was the VFX Supervisor on involved a locked off shot of a woman cutting a mans stomach open, and I had to create the cut as it happened with a knife and make the wound both appear, and then afterwards magically disappear. The actor was contracting and contorting and twisting, and her knife pattern was not exactly a straight line. I tried my BEST to make this shot work in MOCHA PRO "even though I've purchased PFTrack 2017 a year ago", because I've never really had time since getting it to actually work on learning it at all. Do you think PFTrack would've been a better suited package to handle something like that?
You mentioned doing a face tracking tutorial and I'm very curious to know if this would be able to handle that kind of a shot for the future. I had 39 total shots on that film and THAT one is the one that is going to make the movie look cheap because it looks BARELY PASSABLE, but we ran out of time :/
I know exactly the kind of shot your talking about. I’d have suggested looking into something called vector warp in Nuke. If you can get your hands on it sometimes it works magic. As for the face tracking tutorial it’s currently on the list.
Thanks brotha. I'll look into that. I don't use Nuke, but A) is it available on Mac? D) do you happen to know the cost for both it, and the Vector plug? I'll research it regardless, thanks brotha.
WOAH...I'm speechless, I just watched a clip about it from the Foundry and I'm at a loss for words. That's EXACTLY what I needed.
Yeah. It’s an effect in Nuke X I believe. Which isn’t cheap. But it’s a life saver in a pinch. I suggest you degrain the shot a bit before using as it can cause hell with the track. You’d be surprised how much this is used in the industry.
does pftrack tracking uses the old image contrast vs image texture like in planner trackering algorithm?
Thank you for this wonderful tut...The origin we set in PFTracker Doesn't work inside After Effects Why?
What an amazing tutorial! Thanks a lot! Have a question - so there is no way to import a projected texture from pftrack to AE? So if I were to create a projection plane with a texture, I'd have to do it inside of AE manually?
Unfortunately you are correct. If your going all AE then you need to do everything manually inside AE. You will only ever get cameras and nulls from PFTrack.
This is the best PFTrack tutorial I have seen. You talk like Eli the computer guy. Are you related? I am still having problems with my scene. I got a camera moving forward, and I am having trouble tracking it. The orient scene is the hardest part I find.
Thanks for the comment. It's always feels good to know you've helped someone. No relation to Eli lol. Orient scene is pretty tricky and unfortunately it's crucial for a solid track. Keep playing with it and keep looking up tutorials. You'll find the sweet spot eventually. Good luck.
@@TroubleShotVFX One quick question. Some tutorials do the user track, then the auto track, and other tutorials do the auto track first. Does the order matter at all?
@@TheTimeProphet The order doesn't really matter but I always make a habit of starting with user tracks that are centered around the important areas. Any are where you will be adding an effect mostly. Then an auto track to back up that information. But most importantly be conservative with you auto track because if you have a ton of points then you may have to go back do a lot of manual cleanup for false corners and such. But depending on the shot you can go with one or the other. It always feels great when a solid auto track does all the work for you.
@@TroubleShotVFX Thanks I got my scene tracked perfectly. Not a millimetre of movement. I already got around this problem another way, but the texture paint wouldn't work for me. I was able to draw a square but it wouldn't paint. I have a slightly newer version of pftrack, but that is the only bit that wouldn't work for me.
This is awesome, it totally worked! Thanks so much!
with love thanks a lot for this tutorial and your really amazing keep it up
Nice . U r amazing
Hello sir. This video is amazing. So informative. Ive just recently upgraded camera and software. I was wondering something. I have shot plates like this, in 4k, 50fps handheld. Tried my absolute best to get accurate tracks when bringing into Maya. Seems to always remain slightly jittery or slides. Is that to do with my camera and rolling shutter do you think, or is it that i am just not advanced enough with tracking? I know this is a super broad question.
Hard to say exactly what the problem is. Usually if everything is looking good in PF track but is off in maya or max then I tend to find that there is an import error somewhere. Either my FPS are not aligned with the plate in max/maya or the start times are off by a frame or two. Try shifting the footage a bit I. Either direction to see if the track aligns. Then again it could just be a tough shot that needs lots of love to get right.
EPIC TUTORIAL!
GOLD!
THANKS!
This video helped me a lot! Thank you so much :)
Really helps a lot, thanks!
Since i liked this tutorial, its time for you to do more for this software. What do you mean by no? That wasnt a question!
Thanks man it was great
thank you, so cool, and so usefull. Perfect.
When I trying to import footage, the x never change to plus.
same here
@@brendansapp I figured it out. You have to convert the footage to image sequence with any editing tool like After Effects. Then You can drag the first frame into the PFTrack and it works fine.
@@arifulislamsunny2992 sweet thanks
Thank you very much for this amazing tutorial from Russia! How do you think in what format will be better export scene to Blender?
Export to Alembic Camera.
Hey mate, thanks very much for the clear and detailed tutorial! I've been practicing tracking a lot lately, but even though I'm now getting decent solves, I'm having trouble with the resulting scale when importing into 3dsmax. Max interprets the script file fine, except for the scale, which is like 1000x too small. This makes things like fire and smoke simulations impossible! Do you have any clues as to how I could fix this? I've tried playing with the scale multiplier in PFtrrack on the export node but it' doesn't solve the problem. The scale indicator in the scene in PFTrack is even correct (the 1m scale indicator). It's so frustrating since I've invested so much time into PFtrack now, but it's essentially useless once I get into Max.
how do you import .mov video?
Hi there, I can't seem to drag and drop my MOV video into the panel, is there a reason why this error occurs?
u can't open mov files directly into the panel u neeed to jpeg or png export
@@fatihcolaak Hey there, Yeah I figured this out HAHA. Thanks for the reply tho! THink it'll be helpful for others! :)
hi, i have a problem....the program don´t show me the footage, why? and when im going to drop the grab video dont show me the "plus" to added, it´s forbidden says me
It could be a multitude of things but I’d start with checking to see if the codec is compatible. You’ll have to go through the menu to your video and if the thumbnail doesn’t show the codec isn’t compatible.
Do people use Mocha professionally or nah?
Yes. It’s used all the time.
Shouldn' t you undistort the footage first of all?
Depends on the type of effect you want to achieve. If the distortion is very slight and my effect doesn’t require pixels precision then no I don’t have to. It’s a bit of a process to undistort the footage and then I’d have to cover exporting the undistorted footage sequence and then I’d have to cover re distorting it in comp and it’s an entire process that really warrants its own tutorial.
Has anyone used PFtrack v2018? I’m new to this and the interface has changed a bit from v2017. I’m trying to figure out how to create a new project from scratch! It’s a bit confusing.
Can someone send me a screenshot?
thanks for tutorial, but I think even AE 3d cam tracker can handle such shots. But what about to track the shot where the camera rotate to left and right? I'm trying to track camera from video game, I think it's imposible
That’s the point. Trying to track in AE is really hot or miss. Sometimes it nails it other time it won’t for no reason. That’s when you need a sturdy external tracker to get the job done. If I’ve learned one thing from working with trackers in the industry. Nothing is impossible to track if you have the talent, time and resources. But that can be said if most things.
you're right, I'm just trying to use it for fun and I've tried for the video game. Spent 3 hour to user track in PFtrack - and all are garbage in result =( The smooth scenes are not the problem, but when you, for example, are staying on the ship wheel and during turns your hands can overlap the view, and there is a lot of water + your ship is swaying on waves - it's the real pain in the ass to track the ship's deck. I've tried to find any tutorials on YT how to track difficult scenes in every software (like rotating camera, peeking out of the corner, swaying on waves and etc.), every example is just simple and smooth. Maybe you have some tutorials about it? I was talking about Sea of thieves game, you can check what kind of swaying is in this games. But anyway, thanks for the reply.
If you want to kick it or me I’ll give it a shot and see if I can get it to work. Might make an interesting follow up video.
Today I've tried to track this scene (the goal was to insert kind of GPS navigator near compass) ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=gCghCZEaMPY . it's kind of soft, but I didn't handle that. in result I've got 3d axes and surface rotating as crazy )) Also I have this shot ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=jNNCr0XaFE0 , it's like 1st, but more difficult. Tomorrow I'll try this ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=J3uolU7LzJY , even AE can handle such shot, but more often it's like endless "Solving camera" banner =) On this shot I'll try to put something on the map table and table.
sorry, I sent wrong links. 1st video ruclips.net/video/gCghCZEaMPY/видео.html , 2nd ruclips.net/video/jNNCr0XaFE0/видео.html , 3rd ruclips.net/video/J3uolU7LzJY/видео.html
Listen, Jerry, I don’t want to overstep my bounds or anything. It’s your house. It’s your world. You’re a real Julius Caesar, but I’ll tell you some, tell you how-how I feel about school, Jerry. It’s a waste of time, a bunch of people running around, bumping into each other. G-guy up front says, “two plus two.” The people in the back say, “four.” Then the bell rings, and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can take a dump or something. I mean, it’s-it’s not a place for smart people, Jerry, and I know that’s not a popular opinion, but it’s my two cents on the issue.
I dont speak english and I dont have a fuck how to put my video to program. It shows me crossed circle. What means "gonna give you an X but the X will turn into this plus"? I dont have plus, I have crossed circle
seriously what is wrong with apps like pftrack and zbrush? they all looks like they have their ui designed by someone who chugged a bucket of vodka
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Great tutorial. Good job. I do find the constant cussing annoying though.
it cant take an hour to track 7 secs
You’re right. It doesn’t take an hour. Takes about 15 minutes in fact. But it takes me an hour to explain it to little potatoes like you who don’t have the base intelligence to instantly assume that it’s takes longer to teach something than to do it on autopilot.
@@TroubleShotVFX hahaha do you have a job or does youtube pay at least for your phone bill?
hey how did you disable OpenGL processing and enable CUDA processing, because of this thing I have to disable my graphics driver and then the PF track open fine !!!! any solution, please.
thanks so much for this really good tutorial, you really seem like someone who's been doing this enough to make it feel like routine (for the first time I really laughed at someone swearing this much lol) thanks again mate
Hi Dan. This is the best tutorial, on youtube about Pftrack. Thank you!
I really like you doing pf track tutorials.
I hope you will regularly create more detailed tutorials. nice, tks!
thanku so much broo god level teaching tutorial
thank U
fantastic tutorial (Y) !!
This tutorial is the epitome of what EVERY tutorial should be!!! The information shared in here made me excited to find the time to try and track my own shots! Thank u for this video!!!
awesome tutorial
00:56 "I'll assume you don't know anything about it" this is where most RUclips tutorial fails to teach. Always assume that viewer is a complete idiot and hence it helps to cater all the audience
I just find u! I am happy! many thanks in regards
can u plzz guide us about tracking and matchmoving jobs where to start where to find how industry works plzzz
hi,im from indonesia ,why can't my software import video, so it has to be made into a jpg sequence before it can be imported? can you help me sir?
dope, man. the swearing got old fast -- but super fun tutorial. thanks.
Absolutely perfect tutorial. Right thinking, right speed, very real world! Cheers from Brazil.
Thanks man. Also feel free to make requests. I can’t promise to know everything but if I think the answer is easy then I’ll make an update.
There´s no need. You answer everything in this video! I got a few problems and keep removing by hand. I finally find how to adjust by reds or duration of track.
Quentin Tarantino teaches tracking
maaan this tutorial is so great
Thanks
Thank you.
Good! Very clear video!
nice
It didnt put video mp4.....
This guy is a staraight up G.
perfect, thanks!