SynthEyes to After Effects 3-D Tutorial

This Quicktime movie shows a shot being auto-tracked, a coordinate system being set up using some supervised trackers, the scene exported to After Effects, and a logo being burned in using AE's 3-D workspace.. After you watch the video, find out more or go get the SynthEyes demo edition.

Internet Explorer users:  right-click this SynthEyes to After Effects movie link and Save As, then use the Quicktime Player.

You can see the final movie (2 MB) also.

Notes:

  1. IMPORTANT FAQ: AfterEffects uses "pixels" as its unit within the 3-D environment, not inches or feet (ie it does not convert units at all). The default SynthEyes coordinate system setup keeps the world less than 100 units across. As AE interprets that as pixels, your 3-D scene can appear to be quite small in AE, as is the case in this tutorial, which is why we had to scale down the inserted object. It is much easier to adjust the coordinate system in SynthEyes first, so the 3-D world is bigger, for example by changing the coordinates of the second point used in coordinate system setup from 20,0,0 to be 1000,0,0, say.
  2. The video is 7:45 and 14 MB long, and still barely touches the surface. SynthEyes lets you do a ton of other things too—check out all the other tutorials and the manual too (after downloading the demo version).
  3. PC version is the same, done on a Mac due to capture software availability.