OK thanks. All useful info. I like the photogrammetry aspect of PFTrack, which they push as a feature. How good it actually is, I'm not sure.
On 21 July 2016 at 10:46, Jordi Bares <[email protected]> wrote: > If I was to pick 1 only I would go straight to 3DE. > > If you have a bit of cash spare to buy more toys then PFT would be a good > addition and although all of them will do the job in one way or another > there are thing you can only do with 3DE and that is the point, it is rock > solid tracker but more important, you can do do much more afterwards to get > the results you need!! > > jb > > On 20 Jul 2016, at 17:53, Dan Yargici <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >> > > ------ > 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
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