Cinema 4D Tutorial: Perspective Camera Matching

In this quick tutorial I'll show how you can match the 3D camera perspective of a shot with a locked camera using the Cinema 4D Camera Calibrator. I am showing real production techniques actually used in the making of a short film to extend a set.
As a bonus you will also see Shadow Catchers and how to light the scene using geo coordinates + time & date infos in conjunction with Cinema 4D's Physical Sky to recreate the exact sun position from the original shoot.
This video is taken from a longer presentation I gave at IBC in Amsterdam. The whole talk can be watched here: • Creative problem solvi...
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[@beammeuptooscotty]

Excellent video. Thanks so much for the info. I also learned that having a photo with enough X,Y, and Z lines is beneficial to help eliminate the red boxes!! [More planes in photo help C4D figure out where stuff is}

[@craveleaks8102]

Nice quick tip. Thank you for the tutorial. Would love to see a quick walkthrough of the set
extension.

[@RobertHranitzky]

Crave Leaks Thanks so much! Check the full talk, it might give you an overall better insight! Let me know what you think

[@beMOTIONdESIGN]

Nice! Can't wait to see more!

[@northernintrovert]

Congrats on the talk! Very interesting.

[@RobertHranitzky]

Northern Introvert thank you!

[@torajeshjoseph]

Easy And Best__Thanks Alot!..

[@JimiJames]

Great video, thank you.

[@PrinceOfCry]

Hi there. For r21 wheres the camera callibration tool?

[@whitneyalexander8203]

Been using this tag for 3D Projection Mapping for the past 8 years. Checking to see if there are any Orientation tips (or just additional tips in general) that might be lurking in the shadows. :)

[@WBanduMedia07]

Thank You

[@drzhouxy1]

How to use camera calibrator with C4D S22. Can not find this tags? Thx.

[@AshleyGlover]

I know this was done for the Physical render but do you know how I would achieve the same thing with Octane render? I am struggling to get it work organically.

[@SapiensVirtus]

thanks for the video, but I have a problem, I import my image, then apply the Camera Calibrator tag, I insert my image but when I hit create grid or line or pin nothing happens, theres no line or grid :/ thanks for the help in advance

[@charlysteiger]

Hi, I'm trying to figure out to make "naked eye 3d" with cinema 4d. I already figured it out how to fake perspective in after effects, but the same principle will not work on cinema 4d as, well, basically, it is real 3d.

[@AndrewBrettWatson]

I found it in Tags > Tracking Tags > Camera Calibrator (R12)

[@4LOOR]

How to turn on that zoom window?

[@evgenyprikhodko4981]

Great! Thank you!

[@RobertHranitzky]

You’re very welcome

[@AndresArosemena]

great talk but the link you put in the description does not go to the complete presentation, it goes to a 2:51 video called "MAXON @ IBC 2018 - Eventfilm". Where can he watch your whole presentation?

[@AndresArosemena]

For anyone else looking for it, I found it here-> ruclips.net/video/m99oyciZRbA/видео.html

[@RobertHranitzky]

Great catch Andres, thank you! Sorry, I indeed had the wrong link in there. Fixed it now.

[@AndresArosemena]

@@RobertHranitzky glad to help!

[@151forShizzle]

How you do that with self created objects ? Not an image

[@unionstationsessions]

Is there a way to scale up the scene once created?

[@DIRTYAP3]

dude the music out of nowhere scared my ass off lol, but nice video

[@juanocybe]

cant find the tag in R25

[@4rjohny5]

this is awesome Rob, thank you! when you get the longitude and latitude coordinates, where do you put them in Cinema 4D?

[@RobertHranitzky]

Johny ; Five thank you! Glad you like it.
If you look at 05:35 you’ll see it: select light object (sun) then select sun in the tag properties. There you’ll have time and geo options.

[@4rjohny5]

@@RobertHranitzky awesome, thank u Rob! =)

[@thomaspipermusic]

can you do that with a motion tracked camera?

[@RobertHranitzky]

Thomas Piper yes of course, but quite a lot more work!

[@thomaspipermusic]

Ok how much more work lol

[@larasagripanti3350]

@@RobertHranitzky Can you explain us? It's very interesting understand how to apply this at a tracked camera and imported into c4d. Your videos is amazing! Thanks

[@RobertHranitzky]

@@larasagripanti3350 thank you! You would have to build the entire area that has to be replaced as a 3D model (instead of just one frame as here). Before that you will have to apply a 3D camera tracker in C4D (or in another tool for example After Effects)…

[@cholasimmons]

where's that tag in R21?
:P

[@JacksonWhyte]

i cant find it either!

[@JacksonWhyte]

Found it, its under Tracker Tags

[@Dodgerog]

Right click on your camera in the object manager to open tags, Tracker Tags, Camera Calibrator.

[@divasoft]

Thanks, useless at all.

[@shoreydesigns3064]

How do I use 2d camera mode on a tracked camera so I can zoom in for more accurate image modeling?

[@4ldo77]

1:34

[@ilyaskhalukhaev9819]

Cool tutorial, thank you!