3D Camera Tracking 101

Duration: 4 Weeks Start: Every Month Level: Beginner Learning Advisor: Federico Mattioli

Course Description

This 3D Camera Tracking course takes you through the economical but incredibly powerful SynthEyes 3D tracking application. The course will be using the recent release of SynthEyes 2008. This course will give you the base knowledge you need in order to solve various types of shot.

Course Prerequisites

Basic 3D and Compositing skills.

Course Aims

• You will learn the basics of 3D traking and the SynthEyes interface
• Be able to solve almost any kind of basic shots, and even some of the more difficult ones

Course Topics

• SynthEyes interface - basic tracking
• Manual traking
• Field tracking and stabilizing shots - geometry setup
• Automatic and Manual tracking with manual refining
• Basic object tracking
• Analizing footage for best tracking solution

Course Outcomes

• Understand how to plan a shot for 3D Tracking
• Track almost any kind of shot with SynthEyes
• Stabilize Shots and export 3D cameras from still images
• Insert 3D tracked objects in a shot

Required Resources

Software: SynthEyes