I worked on a job where a colleague was tracking 4 ~2000 frame sequences in the same world space with SynthEyes and the speed and results he was getting were jaw-dropping. It's crazy fast, if that's what's important to you. It's priced very attractively also. To call the interface fugly would be a massive understatement however...
Just thought I'd throw that into the mix. DAN On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Francois Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been a while since I worked with 3DE, but I always found it slow to > work with. If you have one shot to track it might not make a big > difference. But when you have tens of shots it starts to show. > > On 2016-07-20 11:01, Andy Nicholas wrote: > > I know these things are often down to personal preference and depth of > knowledge of a package, but for me, 3DEqualizer wins out in most > situations. The only time I go to PFTrack is for their mesh tracking and > perspective alignment tool. I'm not particularly a fan of PFTrack's node > editor, as it doesn't provide the sorts of workflows that I'd expect from > it so I quickly get frustrated. I find that it's too high level in terms of > the data that gets passed between nodes. I want more granularity. > > With 3DE being so (relatively) cheap with its rental pricing now, I'd find > it hard to justify using anything else. It's not the easiest of packages to > pick up when you're starting out, but for me that's about the only downside. > > > > > On 20/07/2016 15:07, Alok Gandhi wrote: > > Chiming in from VFX Pipeline perspective on which I have a worked for > quite a number of years (though not in tracking), there are these 3 or 4 > dccs as mentioned above that I have seen the most experienced tracking > artists using each one of them for solving specific shot problems. In the > end a solid tracking artist would preferably have most of them in their > arsenal to track any shot thrown their way using a combination or one of > them. Sometimes tracking can be a brutal and needs some serious fire > fighting. So I would say all of them have their pros and cons but by a > little margin PF Track wins the race. > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> OK Brilliant! I'll check out some of those options. >> Sounds like PF Track might be my first point of contact. >> Thanks List! >> >> >> On 20 July 2016 at 09:05, Olivier Jeannel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've seen some nice thing coming out of nuke tracking (I don't use Nuke >>> ..yet) >>> Other than that PF track. >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Adam Sale <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> PF Track all the way in my opinion. Node based interface for combining >>>> all kinds of matchmove , object tracks, stabilization, undistortion, >>>> redistortion etc. >>>> Its cheaper by a long shot than 3dEq, though I can't speak for the >>>> rental aspect costs. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Francois Lord <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Syntheyes for low price, precision of 2D tracking and speed of 2D >>>>> tracking. >>>>> PFTrack for overall speed and versatility. >>>>> 3DEqualizer for difficult shots and precision of 3D track. >>>>> NukeX for simple shots if you already have a license. >>>>> >>>>> If you need to choose just one, I would pick PFTrack. The node based >>>>> workflow is awesome, but the rest of the UI is awful. A good combination >>>>> is >>>>> to 2D track in Syntheyes and 3D solve in PFTrack. >>>>> >>>>> On 2016-07-19 10:46, Rob Wuijster wrote: >>>>> >>>>> There's PFTrack, and SynthEyes is used a lot as well. SynthEyes has >>>>> decent pricing too. >>>>> >>>>> Rob >>>>> >>>>> \/-------------\/----------------\/ >>>>> >>>>> On 19-7-2016 16:18, Cristobal Infante wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I would recommend 3DEqualizer, it's probably the best one out there. >>>>> You can now rent it. >>>>> FXPHD have some good intro courses I believe. >>>>> >>>>> On 19 July 2016 at 10:47, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>> What are people using for motion tracking / match moving these days? >>>>>> I haven't needed to do it for a while. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> >>>>>> Chris >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------ >>>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to >>>>>> [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the >>>>>> subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------ >>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------ >>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>> >>>> >>>> ------ >>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >>> >>> ------ >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Chris Marshall >> Mint Motion Limited >> 029 20 37 27 57 >> 07730 533 115 >> www.mintmotion.co.uk >> www.dot3d.com >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > -- > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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