Re: OT Match mover questions
Just in case you guys want to know. Blender FTW. We're getting pretty good tracks from it, and it is the most intuitive tracking I've done in a long time. G On 2013/09/16 02:02 PM, Jordi Bares wrote: Hope everything goes well. Kb Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 09:14, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: We have a very good PF track dude coming in for this. I just want to help the bottle neck along without spending all my profit on new software :) Just paid for softimage subs and got my Arnold invoice 2 days ago :) Thanks guys. I'm doing some Blender tuts atm so lets see where that goes. I Agree Jordi that these shoots need to be planed better, but we don't always get what we ask for. G On 2013/09/16 08:59 AM, Nicolas Esposito wrote: I'm currently using a rig with 2 kinects mounted on a kind-of moving tripod, so I can track an actor that walk/run, since the Kinect sensor have range limitations. Works pretty well used with Ipi motion capture ( no head rotation tough ), but is ok I'm evaluating 3D equalizer as well for facial mocap, which works pretty damn good, but it cost a lot, so maybe Syntheyes could be a valid alternative ;) 2013/9/16 Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com Body match move is one of the most painful things to do and requires lots of expertise so you should get some expert help and consider a very serious planning on you shoot. I am about to do a job like the one you describe and we are aiming to use equaliser which still today is the most powerful and robust. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email.
Re: OT Match mover questions
Seriously? Blender has a maintenance contract now? ;-P Rob \/-\/\/ On 18-9-2013 11:55, Dan Yargici wrote: I've done a test track in Blender also and it works pretty well for fairly 'vanilla' shots. Seriously, everyone ought to be donating to Blender ($5 a month - what's that really...) DAN On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Just in case you guys want to know. Blender FTW. We're getting pretty good tracks from it, and it is the most intuitive tracking I've done in a long time. G On 2013/09/16 02:02 PM, Jordi Bares wrote: Hope everything goes well. Kb Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 09:14, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: We have a very good PF track dude coming in for this. I just want to help the bottle neck along without spending all my profit on new software :) Just paid for softimage subs and got my Arnold invoice 2 days ago :) Thanks guys. I'm doing some Blender tuts atm so lets see where that goes. I Agree Jordi that these shoots need to be planed better, but we don't always get what we ask for. G On 2013/09/16 08:59 AM, Nicolas Esposito wrote: I'm currently using a rig with 2 kinects mounted on a kind-of moving tripod, so I can track an actor that walk/run, since the Kinect sensor have range limitations. Works pretty well used with Ipi motion capture ( no head rotation tough ), but is ok I'm evaluating 3D equalizer as well for facial mocap, which works pretty damn good, but it cost a lot, so maybe Syntheyes could be a valid alternative ;) 2013/9/16 Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com Body match move is one of the most painful things to do and requires lots of expertise so you should get some expert help and consider a very serious planning on you shoot. I am about to do a job like the one you describe and we are aiming to use equaliser which still today is the most powerful and robust. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email. -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com http://www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3408 / Virus Database: 3222/6676 - Release Date: 09/17/13 -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email.
Re: OT Match mover questions
http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/development-fund/ On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: Seriously? Blender has a maintenance contract now? ;-P Rob \/-\/\/ On 18-9-2013 11:55, Dan Yargici wrote: I've done a test track in Blender also and it works pretty well for fairly 'vanilla' shots. Seriously, everyone ought to be donating to Blender ($5 a month - what's that really...) DAN On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Just in case you guys want to know. Blender FTW. We're getting pretty good tracks from it, and it is the most intuitive tracking I've done in a long time. G On 2013/09/16 02:02 PM, Jordi Bares wrote: Hope everything goes well. Kb Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 09:14, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: We have a very good PF track dude coming in for this. I just want to help the bottle neck along without spending all my profit on new software :) Just paid for softimage subs and got my Arnold invoice 2 days ago :) Thanks guys. I'm doing some Blender tuts atm so lets see where that goes. I Agree Jordi that these shoots need to be planed better, but we don't always get what we ask for. G On 2013/09/16 08:59 AM, Nicolas Esposito wrote: I'm currently using a rig with 2 kinects mounted on a kind-of moving tripod, so I can track an actor that walk/run, since the Kinect sensor have range limitations. Works pretty well used with Ipi motion capture ( no head rotation tough ), but is ok I'm evaluating 3D equalizer as well for facial mocap, which works pretty damn good, but it cost a lot, so maybe Syntheyes could be a valid alternative ;) 2013/9/16 Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com Body match move is one of the most painful things to do and requires lots of expertise so you should get some expert help and consider a very serious planning on you shoot. I am about to do a job like the one you describe and we are aiming to use equaliser which still today is the most powerful and robust. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email. -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3408 / Virus Database: 3222/6676 - Release Date: 09/17/13 -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email. -- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject unsubscribe and reply to the confirmation email.
Re: OT Match mover questions
I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
Body match move is one of the most painful things to do and requires lots of expertise so you should get some expert help and consider a very serious planning on you shoot. I am about to do a job like the one you describe and we are aiming to use equaliser which still today is the most powerful and robust. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
I'm currently using a rig with 2 kinects mounted on a kind-of moving tripod, so I can track an actor that walk/run, since the Kinect sensor have range limitations. Works pretty well used with Ipi motion capture ( no head rotation tough ), but is ok I'm evaluating 3D equalizer as well for facial mocap, which works pretty damn good, but it cost a lot, so maybe Syntheyes could be a valid alternative ;) 2013/9/16 Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com Body match move is one of the most painful things to do and requires lots of expertise so you should get some expert help and consider a very serious planning on you shoot. I am about to do a job like the one you describe and we are aiming to use equaliser which still today is the most powerful and robust. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
We have a very good PF track dude coming in for this. I just want to help the bottle neck along without spending all my profit on new software :) Just paid for softimage subs and got my Arnold invoice 2 days ago :) Thanks guys. I'm doing some Blender tuts atm so lets see where that goes. I Agree Jordi that these shoots need to be planed better, but we don't always get what we ask for. G On 2013/09/16 08:59 AM, Nicolas Esposito wrote: I'm currently using a rig with 2 kinects mounted on a kind-of moving tripod, so I can track an actor that walk/run, since the Kinect sensor have range limitations. Works pretty well used with Ipi motion capture ( no head rotation tough ), but is ok I'm evaluating 3D equalizer as well for facial mocap, which works pretty damn good, but it cost a lot, so maybe Syntheyes could be a valid alternative ;) 2013/9/16 Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com mailto:jordiba...@gmail.com Body match move is one of the most painful things to do and requires lots of expertise so you should get some expert help and consider a very serious planning on you shoot. I am about to do a job like the one you describe and we are aiming to use equaliser which still today is the most powerful and robust. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
Hope everything goes well. Kb Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 09:14, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: We have a very good PF track dude coming in for this. I just want to help the bottle neck along without spending all my profit on new software :) Just paid for softimage subs and got my Arnold invoice 2 days ago :) Thanks guys. I'm doing some Blender tuts atm so lets see where that goes. I Agree Jordi that these shoots need to be planed better, but we don't always get what we ask for. G On 2013/09/16 08:59 AM, Nicolas Esposito wrote: I'm currently using a rig with 2 kinects mounted on a kind-of moving tripod, so I can track an actor that walk/run, since the Kinect sensor have range limitations. Works pretty well used with Ipi motion capture ( no head rotation tough ), but is ok I'm evaluating 3D equalizer as well for facial mocap, which works pretty damn good, but it cost a lot, so maybe Syntheyes could be a valid alternative ;) 2013/9/16 Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com Body match move is one of the most painful things to do and requires lots of expertise so you should get some expert help and consider a very serious planning on you shoot. I am about to do a job like the one you describe and we are aiming to use equaliser which still today is the most powerful and robust. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On 16 Sep 2013, at 07:12, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I only use blender to export stuff, so I'm oblivious to its power. Does it poses the power to track(mocap) an actor's head and shoulder movement in a moving camera shot? Thanks g On 2013/09/15 02:38 PM, Toonafish wrote: Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
Maybe give Blender a shot, I used it for some tracking a while ago and it worked very well. - Ronald On 9/13/2013 14:46, Gerbrand Nel wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
I ended up buying Syntheyes for a project because of those very reasons. Unfortunately Match Mover just isn't up to the task much anymore and I doubt AD is going to sink money into improving it. Syntheyes is very capable and inexpensive. The interface may not be the best, but it is a workhorse and is well supported by the developer. Paul — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I'll laugh tomorrow ;) On 2013/09/13 04:09 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: the rumors is you have to export to .vbs for Softimage|XSI and every other option is just there for a good laugh On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
OT Match mover questions
I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
the rumors is you have to export to .vbs for Softimage|XSI and every other option is just there for a good laugh On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
Re: OT Match mover questions
I'll laugh tomorrow ;) On 2013/09/13 04:09 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: the rumors is you have to export to .vbs for Softimage|XSI and every other option is just there for a good laugh On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I know the rest of the world is on pf track, but we have allot of shots to track and only 1 pf license. I would like to help the tracking along in matchmover, but it has been YEARS since I touched it, So I thought I'd ask here :) 1st problem: I did the elastic tutorial in Match mover, but I cant seem to export to .XSI or .FBX. It exports to Maya and max, but I don't have those to check. Is it broken, or am I breaking it? We need to track moving heads in hand held footage. Can matchmover do this and do you guys know of handy tutorials on this? I tried the mocap tutorial, but it uses 2 cameras, and we only have footage from 1 camera. Thanks for reading, and sorry for the OT G
