SynthEyes 2011 Previews at SIGGRAPH

New 2011 Release Concentrates on Set Reconstruction

* King of Prussia, PA. July 22, 2010.

Andersson Technologies LLC will be previewing the SynthEyes 2011 release of its versatile and affordable camera tracking application at SIGGRAPH Booth #1017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, July 27-29. The new release is highlighted by set reconstruction features. With the new features, visual effects artists can create 3-D models of the set on which shots were originally recorded, as an aid to adding new effects such as CGI creatures, or enhancing the appearance of the set, for example extending it or enhancing the art direction. Compositing artists can use the new features to build layered 3-D environments as well.

* SynthEyes 2008+1 Background

SynthEyes offers a complete high-end feature set, including tracking, stabilization, 3-D stereo, mesh building, and motion capture. It handles camera tracking, object tracking, object tracking from reference meshes, camera+object tracking, multiple-shot tracking, tripod (nodal, 2.5-D) tracking, mixed tripod and translating shots, zooms, lens distortion, and light solving. It can handle shots of any resolution---DV, HD, film, IMAX---in 8-bit, 16-bit, or floating point data, and can solve shots with thousands of frames. A special feature simplifies and speeds tracking for green-screen shots. The image preprocessor can help remove grain, compression artifacts, off-centering, or varying lighting.

SynthEyes offers complete control over the tracking process for challenging shots, including an efficient workflow for supervised trackers, combined automated/supervised tracking, incremental solving, and a hard and soft path locking system. You can set up a coordinate system with tracker constraints, camera constraints, a line-based single-frame alignment system, or manually. SynthEyes exports to about 25 common animation and compositing packages, standard.

* Credits

Selected current projects with SynthEyes tracking include Avatar, Boardwalk Empire, Caprica, Flash Forward, Human Target, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Iron Man 2, The Pacific, Shutter Island, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, V, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

* Platforms

SynthEyes is offered for PC and Mac in four versions: 32-bit Windows, native 64-bit Windows, 32-bit OS X, and native 64-bit OS X, at $399 for 32-bit versions and $599 for 64-bit versions. Windows versions run on Windows 7, Vista, or XP. The OS X versions run on 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.5 (Leopard). SynthEyes also runs on, and is in production use on, Linux systems using WINE.

* Availability

SynthEyes 2008+1 is available now. SynthEyes 2011 will be available in September 2010. Customers purchasing SynthEyes 2008+1 now will receive a no-charge upgrade to the same platform of SynthEyes 2011 when it becomes available.

The company website offers a free demonstration version of SynthEyes at https://www.ssontech.com