Andersson Technologies LLC
Andersson Technologies LLC is the developer of SynthEyes™ 2008, a camera tracking (a.k.a. match-moving) and stabilization software application offering high performance and a wealth of features at an affordable price. Use SynthEyes for animated critter insertion, fixing shaky shots, virtual set extension, architectural previews, accident reconstruction, virtual product placement, face and body capture, and more.
News:
- 8 July 2008. Posted build 1006 for Mac only, fixed Quicktime-reader issue when auto-tracking large Quicktimes that do not fit in RAM.
- 24-26 June 2008. SynthEyes 2008.08 (2008 build 1005) is posted, which is optimized to run more efficiently on eight-core machines. There are a few small bug fix/enhancements, but no new features in this build by design. See the change list in the support area for details. You can read about benchmarks of the old and new build on various operating system and a related forum thread. Please advise of any difficulties with the new build. Note: if you have build 1004, please replace it immediately with 1005, there was a problem with supervised trackers in 1004.
- Full-featured Modo exporter posted. See directions and modo limitations in the Modo-export forum post. Sample modo export in the download area.
- It's here! SynthEyes 2008 is now available. Major features include improved solving, path locking, fine-tuning, tracker cleanup, a big new graph editor, and a more flexible user interface. Read the press release or see the new feature list.
- Got SynthEyes 2004, 2006.x, or 2007.x? See the pricing and upgrade details.
- A printed version of the SynthEyes manual is now available from Lulu.com. It is full color printing with a coil binding.
- FXPHD is now offering a course on SynthEyes by Victor Wolansky. Check out their site for details.
- April Fool! SynthEyes helped Rainfall Films put together the Legend of Zelda spoof trailer. According to director Sam Balcomb, it was watched over 2.5 million times in 24 hours, became #1 on YouTube, MySpace, and Digg, and was the 4th most Google-d term in the world that day! Very cool.
- Congratulations to the The Golden Compass for its Oscar win for Visual Effects. See the article in Cinefex. Also congrats for There Will Be Blood, another Oscar-winner with SynthEyes tracking.
- SynthEyes tracking by Asylum starts with the very first shot in National Treasure : Book of Secrets, read the breakdown!
- Recent tutorials: Visualizing Coordinate System Alignment with none of the hassle of computers.
- See a funny new commercial by Digipost using a lot of SynthEyes object tracking. Read a description of the technique.
- Wine release 0.9.47 or later for Linux includes a scheme for OpenGL/X so that you can run SynthEyes under Wine on Linux.
