Tracking software…..

[Anonymous]

Hey what’s up guys, my first post here……

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on this site and I’ve found that you guys seem to really help each other out very well, and are extremely knowledgeable when answering questions, so here goes.

(pretty straight-forward)

anyone know of any tracking software that’s similar to Monet, but a bit more–a*hem– affordable to a smallish motion graphics company who’s getting much more into post effects/compositing?

😀

thanks very much.
J

[suresh k]

Have not tried Monet but Pixel Farms PFhoe2.0 Pro does the job quite well! Its it very affordable aswell! (And super easy) http://www.pfhoe.com – DL the demo and see what you think or just look at the videotutorial from cmi!

[Michael Pekic]

take a look here:

http://www.ssontech.com/

cheers,
rayk

[Tobin]

hi JAYDOLLAH,

i´am afraid there is no real other tracking software like monet. this is what make it so unique, the planar tracker.(thats why there are so proud of it 😉

an idea would be to buy motor which is only about $ 1200 and use the roto tools as cornerpin data.

you could mask the area where a sign replacement has to take place and export the mask to (e.g.) combustion.

copy the keyframes at the corners to the sign, should work like a charm.
you will not get the integrated motion blur though but that can be done with reelsmart motionblur pro easily.

check out the 3d tracking software the other guys mentioned, sometimes we do sign replacements in 3d, can be quite handy.

i would recommend pftrack but thats quite expensive, too.

hope this helps,

timor
p.s.: you can alway download a trial from imagineer to test the workflow…

[kalomeghkalo12 kalomeghkalo12]

Thanks for those tips guys, I do appreciate it and I’m going to check them all out!

GREAT call on Motor by the way. Buying that was my first plan (very affordable obviously) , then I stumbled onto the monet demos and couldn’t believe how much they’ve simplified tracking. But seriously, I hadn’t even thought of that, using the handles in Motor to track. Great Idea, thank you so much.

🙂

[kalomeghkalo12 kalomeghkalo12]

wow, the PFHoe Pro software looks really good!
Thanks again

[CG Rokr]

boujou vs pfhoe

if money was no object which one would you choose and why

dnr

[Tobin]

hi dnr,

you probably ment: boujou or pftrack (pfhoe is the beginner software and is only $100 or so).

i really think that it´s matter of taste and what you want.

i totally love pftrack 4.0 because it´s geomoetry tracking function saved my day a couple of times and i think these guys (the pixelfarm) are a really creative bunch with a lot of good ideas (focal lenght tool, all the motion vector plugins, etc…). pftrack 4 is $ 5,500.

boujou is kind of the old master tool and most of the big hollywood studios see it as the matchmove reference (even though many companies are switching to other tools now). if you want the same functionality as pftrack you will have to buy the full package (boujou 4) which is still $ 10,000 (isn´t money always an issue?).

as rayk mentioned SynthEyes, it is a very strong software too and it´s been used by digital domain and other big companies and is only $400!(i could never really get used to the interface though).

at the end it´s really the question what you want to to, want kind of shots are you trying to tackle?even boujou has geometry tracking now, but when i tried it one day when i had access to it, it always crashed when i tried to load geometry.

have you checked realviz matchmover yet?moving pictured company used it and when i spoke to the vfx sup of troy he seemed to be very pleased with it (he said they use boujou too in their pipeline).

hope this helps, if you have any questions i´am happy to help..

timor

[guillem ramisa]

I already asked this question but I think it got lost in the fxguide total makeover. So here it goes again…
All of the trackers mentioned above are 3d trackers (apart from monet). Does anybody know any new or interresting 2d trackers or are imagineer the only ones following this path?

K

[Tobin]

hi Keyser,

i did write a reply but appearently it was killed by the forum makeover so here i comes again:

as far as i know only imagineer makes a planar tracker. funny thing is: i just checked their website and they announce a new program called mocka which is appearently “the big brother” of motor and is definitely cheaper then monet!
http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mocha/
there is also a free beta for download, so make sure to check it out.

(in my reply i pointed out that this i NOT a 3d tracker to avoid more confusion. most people take “tracking” programs always as matchmoving software)

hope this helps, if you find any other software capable of planar tracking during your research, let me know.

timor

[guillem ramisa]

@Timor 23392 wrote:

hi Keyser,

i did write a reply but appearently it was killed by the forum makeover so here i comes again:

as far as i know only imagineer makes a planar tracker. funny thing is: i just checked their website and they announce a new program called mocka which is appearently “the big brother” of motor and is definitely cheaper then monet!
http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mocha/
there is also a free beta for download, so make sure to check it out.

(in my reply i pointed out that this i NOT a 3d tracker to avoid more confusion. most people take “tracking” programs always as matchmoving software)

hope this helps, if you find any other software capable of planar tracking during your research, let me know.

timor

Yes, thats exactly what I was wondering. I think it’s funny there isn’t more going on with 2d planar tracking. I think there could be many interresting approaches with new motion estimation technology. Imagineer is going in the right direction but I’d like to see more players in the game. What if thefoundry could put some of their knowledge in a new tracker for nuke for example.

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