Motion Tracking in Stereoscopic Shots

Since a stereoscopic shot has two cameras, any stereo shot is already a motion capture setup. While a standard moving-object track requires a half-dozen or more trackers on a rigid body, a stereoscopic motion capture setup works with any number of tracker pairs, as few as one, and they can all move independently on a flexible object or separate objects. This tutorial shows a motion-capture setup of a stereo shot.

Prerequisites: tutorials on supervised tracking, stereoscopic automatic and supervised tracking. See also: the tutorial on stereoscopic moving-object tracking.

Notes:

  1. Tutorial is 5:51 and 21 MB. You can download the mp4 by right-clicking this link: IndyStereo.mp4
  2. Everything is done and shown real-time on an 8-core (16-thread) 2009 Mac Pro running 64-bit Windows Vista. The process is the same in OSX.
  3. All tutorials and images (c)2009 Andersson Technologies LLC, not for re-distribution or usage other than with SynthEyes.