Learn more SynthEyes tracking --- on the web or at SIGGRAPH

* Malvern, PA. July 31, 2009.

See the SynthEyes match-moving application on the web or in person, as Andersson Technologies LLC releases over a dozen new tutorials on its website, and travels to Booth 2607 of the SIGGRAPH Exposition, running August 4-6 in New Orleans.

SynthEyes 2008+1 headlined in April with support for stereoscopic production, and post-production of stereoscopic features has ramped up behind the scenes world-wide. Accordingly, stereo was a prime focus of the tutorials:

• Six tutorials on stereoscopic tracking production
• Three tutorials on lens distortion workflows
• A three-part tutorial on shots from sports stadiums
• Handling actors with roto-masking
• Export to Luxology's Modo
• Use of the script-bar feature

The tutorials can be found at https://www.ssontech.com/learning.html

Recent and soon-to-drop projects using SynthEyes include The Final Destination, G-Force, Infestation, The Proposal, Shutter Island, Surrogates, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Terminator Salvation, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

* Background

SynthEyes offers a complete high-end feature set, including tracking, stabilization, stereoscopic shots, motion capture, and mesh building. 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---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, with a script-based approach.

* System Requirements

SynthEyes is offered for four platforms: 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows, 32-bit OS X, and 64-bit OS X. Windows versions support XP or Vista. The 32-bit OS X version supports OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (Intel/PowerPC); the 64-bit OS X version requires OS X 10.5 Leopard (Intel). It is also in production use on Linux systems. We recommend 2-4 GB for 32-bit versions, 4 GB or more for 64-bit versions. See the web site for more information.

* Pricing and Availability

SynthEyes 2008+1 is available now. Licenses are $399 for 32-bit versions, $499 for 64-bit Windows, and $599 for 64-bit OS X. SynthEyes 2008+1 is a (major) "dot" release of SynthEyes 2008; it is free to SynthEyes 2008 customers. See the website for upgrade pricing for prior versions.

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