SynthEyes 1608 Expands 360°VR and Geometric Hierarchy Tracking

New features further enhance productivity

* August 24th, 2016. For immediate release.

Andersson Technologies LLC (Phoenixville, PA) has released SynthEyes 1608, the latest version of its 3-D tracking and match-moving application for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

SynthEyes 1608 continues to build out additional features in two key areas: Geometric Hierarchy Tracking and 360° Virtual Reality.

Augmenting the well-received 360VR stabilization and 3D integration features introduced some three months ago, SynthEyes 1608 builds a spherical projection screen directly into its perspective view, allowing easy viewing of the 360 VR scene with less setup. A new export capability allows 360VR stabilizations to be exported to downstream compositing applications that support image distortion maps, such as Blackmagic Design's Fusion. Additionally, the SynthEyes Demo version can now run 360VR tool scripts.

For Geometric Hierarchy Tracking, SynthEyes 1608 now can both import and export entire animated deforming rigs with weight maps via Autodesk's Filmbox FBX format. It also includes tools to split bones and reorganize the bone structure to make a specific bone the root.

SynthEyes 1608 includes many productivity-enhancing improvements, often directly suggested by users:

• Animated illumination measurement of trackers to assist integration in shots with rapidly varying lighting.
• Sticky window placements and settings from run to run and within runs, for single and multiple monitors.
• New Number Zone in the graph editor shows numeric values on the current frame.
• Graph editor's glitch fixer refined, and now includes a handy operation to split a tracker on a given frame.
• New functionality for SynthEyes's incredible natural language problem-solving and workflow-acceleration tool, Synthia, to interpret commands such as camera 1's average position over frames 10 to 20 or select all trackers containing floor.
• Around 100 new features, fixes, and tweaks in all.

Nine tutorials on the new features can be found at https://www.ssontech.com/tutes/tutelatest.html More tutorials can be expected over the next several weeks.

The free demonstration version of SynthEyes on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux can be downloaded starting at https://www.ssontech.com/regis.html SynthEyes runs on operating systems including Windows 10 and OS X 10.11 (El Capitan); see the website for a complete list.

* Pricing and Availability

The new version is available immediately. For in-support SynthEyes customers, the new version comes at no extra cost. Upgrade or renewal pricing for earlier SynthEyes customers varies depending on the details. Customers should use the online store to determine specific upgrade and non-USD pricing for all versions.

New licenses of SynthEyes Pro cost 499 USD. The cross-platform Pro license runs 599 USD. Floating Pro licenses are 699 USD each; there is a one-time per-site license manager/setup charge of 250 USD for floating licenses. For students and hobbyists, an entry-level Intro version (https://www.ssontech.com/introlim.html) is 299 USD. Purchasing is online or via listed resellers.

A one-year site license for qualifying educational institutions is 495 USD (https://www.ssontech.com/educate.html). Contact the company with particulars for information on volume licenses for student computers.