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SynthEyes Camera Tracker

What is SynthEyes? SynthEyes is a 3-D camera-tracking software application, also known as match-moving, which is widely used in film, television, commercial, and music video post-production. SynthEyes can look at the image sequence from your live-action shoot and determine how the real camera moved during the shoot, and where various features are in 3-D, so that you can create computer-generated imagery that exactly fits into the shot.

What can SynthEyes do for me? You can use SynthEyes to help insert animated creatures or vehicles; fix shaky shots; extend or fix a set; add virtual sets to green-screen shoots; produce 3D stereoscopic films; create architectural previews; reconstruct accidents; do product placements after the shoot; add 3D cybernetic implants, cosmetic effects, or injuries to actors; produce panoramic backdrops or clean plates; build textured 3-D meshes from images; add 3-D particle effects; or capture body motion to drive computer-generated characters. And those are just the more common uses; we're sure you can think of more.

What are its features? Take a deep breath! SynthEyes offers tracking, set reconstruction, stabilization, 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, stereoscopic shots, nodal stereoscopic shots, zooms, lens distortion, light solving. It can handle shots of any resolution—DV, HD, film, IMAX, with 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit float data, and can be used on shots with thousands of frames. A keyer simplifies and speeds tracking for green-screen shots. The image preprocessor helps remove grain, compression artifacts, off-centering, or varying lighting; improve low-contrast shots; or shoe-horn shots into available RAM for quicker handling. Textures can be extracted for a mesh from the image sequence, producing higher resolution and lower noise than any individual image.

SynthEyes offers complete control over the tracking process for challenging shots, including an efficient workflow for supervised trackers, combined automated/supervised tracking, offset tracking, incremental solving, a hard and soft path locking system, distance constraints for low-perspective shots, and cross-camera constraints for stereo. You can set up a coordinate system with tracker constraints, camera constraints, an automated tool, by aligning to a mesh, a line-based single-frame alignment system, or manually.

Eyes starting to glaze over at all the features? We have only touched the surface, see more on the main feature list. Or go download the free demo and see them for yourself.

What can SynthEyes talk to? SynthEyes is a tracking app; you'll use the other apps you already know to generate the pretty pictures. SynthEyes exports to about 25 different 2-D and 3-D programs. The Sizzle scripting language lets you customize the standard exports, or add your own imports, exports, or tools. You can customize toolbars, color scheme, keyboard mapping, and viewport configurations too.

What can SynthEyes run on? OSX or Windows! SynthEyes is available for either Windows 7/Vista/XP or OS X 10.7/10.6/10.5 for Intel or G5 Power Macs. Many users will select a 64-bit version for PC or Mac, to take advantage of more than 4 GB of RAM to accelerate their workflow. SynthEyes takes full advantage of your multi-core machine with many threaded algorithms and extensive SSE2 optimizations.

Download the free demonstration version.

What does it cost? SynthEyes is available for on-line purchase (only). See the order form for non-US$ prices, the quantity discount schedule and upgrade pricing. Special volume academic pricing is available for schools. Student?

Have questions? Don't be shy. Email support@ssontech.com. Tech support for the demo version? Sure.