Watching tracking tutorial after 13 years. I left animation and VFX in 2008 - 2010 due to big recession. No jobs that time. This time if there are jobs in VFX animation, would like to learn more. Your tutorial is awesome 👍
Thanks for this very thorough tutorial. Quick question though: Why does your tutorial (and every other one I can find for camera tracking) not discuss tracking shots with people in them? Tracking shots comprised of architecture isn't hard most the time but trackers from Syntheses to the built in ones from AE and Blender all like to place the majority of trackers on human bodies and faces when those are the most unreliable parts of any frame for reliable camera tracking data. I've been hunting for anyone that addresses this and cannot find help with this anywhere. Currently working on a green-screen music video so every shot has a person in it. We had tracking points every two feet in the green screen yet Syntheyes's auto tracking always places them on the people, not the green screen tracking points. I've been just doing manual tracker placement to get around this. But, I assumed all these years into camera tracking there would be a more obvious solution to this. Or, is camera tracking not supposed to be used for this and only for unpopulated video footage of landscapes, buildings and the usual tutorial subject matter? If you have any insight into this I'd greatly appreciate it. I really thought filming with tracking data on the walls would be helpful but I'm spending just as much time manually tracking this as I would have without those since the software doesn't seem to recognize them unless I specifically track them manually.
Tracking shots with people in them are basically the same if you do it the way i showed in the video. you need to be aware of the fact that in order to get a camera track, you can only track features on STATIC OBJECTS. any trackers on moving objects will throw off the calculation for the camera. The problem you are referring to is mainly when trying to auto-solve the shot without manual tracking. In Syntheyes, you can go to the roto masking tab and mask out people / moving objects so they will be avoided when automatically placing trackers. As to the reason why many tutorial shots do not include people...probably legal reasons. you dont want to be at risk of violating any person's right not to be shown on the internet.
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Watching this on a Saturday morning 2 years later and this is still gold, thanks!
underrated tutorial. Hidden gem, really
Watching tracking tutorial after 13 years. I left animation and VFX in 2008 - 2010 due to big recession. No jobs that time. This time if there are jobs in VFX animation, would like to learn more. Your tutorial is awesome 👍
Thanks Sean and Andy!
You bet!
This is such amazing tutorial and absolutely helpful! Thanks.
Thanks for this very thorough tutorial. Quick question though: Why does your tutorial (and every other one I can find for camera tracking) not discuss tracking shots with people in them? Tracking shots comprised of architecture isn't hard most the time but trackers from Syntheses to the built in ones from AE and Blender all like to place the majority of trackers on human bodies and faces when those are the most unreliable parts of any frame for reliable camera tracking data. I've been hunting for anyone that addresses this and cannot find help with this anywhere.
Currently working on a green-screen music video so every shot has a person in it. We had tracking points every two feet in the green screen yet Syntheyes's auto tracking always places them on the people, not the green screen tracking points. I've been just doing manual tracker placement to get around this. But, I assumed all these years into camera tracking there would be a more obvious solution to this.
Or, is camera tracking not supposed to be used for this and only for unpopulated video footage of landscapes, buildings and the usual tutorial subject matter? If you have any insight into this I'd greatly appreciate it. I really thought filming with tracking data on the walls would be helpful but I'm spending just as much time manually tracking this as I would have without those since the software doesn't seem to recognize them unless I specifically track them manually.
Tracking shots with people in them are basically the same if you do it the way i showed in the video. you need to be aware of the fact that in order to get a camera track, you can only track features on STATIC OBJECTS. any trackers on moving objects will throw off the calculation for the camera. The problem you are referring to is mainly when trying to auto-solve the shot without manual tracking. In Syntheyes, you can go to the roto masking tab and mask out people / moving objects so they will be avoided when automatically placing trackers. As to the reason why many tutorial shots do not include people...probably legal reasons. you dont want to be at risk of violating any person's right not to be shown on the internet.