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Walks through the theory and operation of roto-masking features in SynthEyes 2210: creating splines, including spline setup via trackers; assigning blips via splines; visualization and outputing mattes; and working with imported mattes.
2022-10-11. 19:17 long.
SynthEyes 2204 now offers Apple ProRes codec support in Windows and Linux; previously it was available only in macOS. The tutorial runs through features of the ProRes support, including how to write ProRes files with colorimetry matching the original. A new feature uses presets to ensure Save Sequence always writes with the correct colors.
2022-03-21. 6:01 long.
Under some situations, you need to UNsolve parts of a scene: when a solve goes wrong; or when the solver detects an error and says you must, after you've deleted too many trackers. A new graph editor channel, #Solved, shows the number of solved trackers on each frame, providing guidance and insight into the solver's operation.
2022-03-28. 6:03 long.
SynthEyes 2204 has many improvements to increase the usability of flexes, which are curves in 3-D space, for modeling and other tasks. This tutorial shows how you can use them.
2022-03-23. 4:02 long.
SynthEyes 1806 has new algorithms and controls to help solve large shots, making much longer shots now feasible to solve in one piece. Shows solving a 17,700 frame 360VR shot with 7780 trackers, setting it up and working through the solve.
2018-06-27. 43:04 long.
Shows how to solve long shots---regular or 360VR---by processing them as individual pieces, then combining the results. The tutorial shows an almost 19 minute (33,659 frame) 360VR shot being tracked, solved, and stabilized. Input footage is at https://youtu.be/dtaTAJcGCXI and the result at https://youtu.be/MH6ZsWR8Zzc
2017-05-18. 21:00 long.
The mesh-deduplication features let you cut down the size of SNI files that repeatedly store the same large meshes. This tutorial runs through a sequence of scenarios, showing the intended uses of the de-duplication modes. For more details, see the section "Mesh De-Duplication" in the manual.
2015-11-16. 11:47 long.◆◆
Runs through some details of GPU- and software-based reading of RED Movie files in SynthEyes. If your GPU is suitable, it can provide 10x faster reading than software-based reading (which is limited to single-threading by the RED SDK). The best way to find out if your GPU is suitable is to try it! NOTE: GPU-based file reading was introduced in SynthEyes 1511.
2015-11-16. 8:55 long.
You can use a 3D mesh as a reference for a camera-only match-move, for example to add a new building to an exact location in an existing environment. Here we use a flat plane textured with images from Google Maps as a reference (in lieu of a site plan).
2015-08-27. 23:21 long.★★★
The tutorial discusses the use of the solver controls, such as Slow but Sure, the motion hint, and the begin/end frames.
2012-10-23. 5:29 long.★
This talky tutorial describes the disk caching system in SynthEyes, which can improve overall workflow on large shots, especially stereo and especially when you have a fast SSD disk or RAID drive. Disk caching is easy to turn on and invisible to use, but be sure to watch this tutorial and check out the manual for best results!
2012-12-02. 22:50 long.◆
This Quicktime movie shows SynthEyes's green-screen system at work. It allows SynthEyes to track only the green screen, and ignore features on the actors moving in front of the screen, so that they don't have to be masked out from tracking. Shows typical issues and solutions handling these shots.
2006-08-28. 3:33 long.★
Find the direction to a distant (sun) light, so you can cast matching shadows in your 3-D app.
2012-10-21. 6:14 long.★
Common "Mr Fix-It"!!! Changing a tracked camera from a camera to an object track.
2012-10-17. 3:11 long.
This tutorial demonstrates the SynthEyes Add-Many and Coalesce Trackers capabilities. Here, we use them to build a denser-than-usual tracker mesh to use as a ground mesh upon which to add objects.
2007-04-05. 4:45 long.★
This tutorial uses a long shot to run through a whole sequence of activities, starting with auto-tracking, adding more trackers, mesh-building, and shadow catching. You'll probably see some capabilities you weren't aware of. Source video from https://www.artbeats.com shot named B017-C081
2012-11-07. 46:37 long.◆◆★★
Shows how you can use real SynthEyes planes to act as clipping planes when working on vertex point clouds, ie from tracker positions or lidar data. Lidar scan from https://kos.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/3Dscans/ by Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, HamidReza Houshiar, and Andreas Nuchter from Jacobs University Bremen GmbH, Germany.
2013-08-09. 6:06 long.
Shows a supervised camera and object shot, primarily the image preprocessor setup to simplify supervised tracking on the box, and a way to adjust the coordinate system setup of the box to match the rest of the scene.
2008-08-05. 4:06 long.
The hold-mode feature of SynthEyes 2008 enables you to match-move shots where the camera translates during part of the shot, but also only rotates during part of the shot. In essence, these shots contain both a regular section and a tripod-mode section. With the hold-mode feature, you can easily solve complex combinations of these motions.
2008-07-10. 5:45 long.◆
Sometimes you need to combine two separate tracks together exactly. Most commonly, this involves a shot consisting of normal sections and tripod sections, but other situations might include a shot with a major occlusion in the middle, or as a starting point for a shot that transitions from a wide shot to a full-frame moving object (still tricky). In the past, you needed to assemble the tracks in your favorite animation package, but it is quicker and easier to do it in SynthEyes. Largely but not always superceded by Hold Mode!
2007-12-09. 9:25 long.
This tutorial shows the SynthEyes 2007 zoom-filtering script in action on a shot that contains a zoom in the middle of the shot. You'd like to have the stability of a non-zoom shot during the non-zooming portion, and accomodate the zoom during that time. The script lets you get that. See also the Flatten FOV phase.
2006-09-28. 3:50 long.
In order to have a correct shadow cast onto a live shot, a piece of proxy geometry is needed that approximates the 3-D scene in the area where the shadow is needed. The original imagery is projected onto it, and shadows cast onto that textured geometry.
2005-09-13.
Talks about the dynamic projection screen generator in SynthEyes's perspective view. The projection screen shows an undistorted version of the original footage and can show a keyed version of the original shot. It adapts immediately to changes in field of view and distortion. The screen can be locked to the location of a tracker (or extra) in the 3D environment. Footage from Hollywood Cameraworks, https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/ greenscreenplates.html
2013-08-07. 9:57 long.★
The projection screen generator creates physical geometry in the scene to hold a background image, which can make some setup and scene-building tasks easier --- especially for green-screen shots. For green screen shots, SynthEyes can leave the keyed portion of the image transparent. This works for internally-keyed shots, or for shots with externally-generated alpha channels.
2010-11-19. 3:27 long.
When you work with a longer main shot and a shorter reference shot, it can be convenient to scrub them independently to different frame numbers, to facilitate linking the trackers from shot to shot. This tutorial shows how to do that, using a camera + perspective view.
2015-02-02. 2:41 long.
You can use the image preprocessor to create motion from stills, the "Ken Burns" effect. This tutorial shows a simple example of that. Doing it in SynthEyes is different than doing a 2D image zoom and pan, because, with the proper lens field of view, it is recalculating the correct perspective shift, as if the camera was on a tripod, instead of the 2-D image-being-slid-around look.
2009-01-08. 5:45 long.
This tutorial shows the SynthEyes's Image Preparation subsystem being used to dramatically reduce the RAM usage of a shot, including setting up presets. Note: the layout of the image preprocessor window has been changed, but the overall effect remains the same.
2006-09-29. 5:44 long.
This Quicktime tutorial shows how to use SynthEyes's Batcher to process a collection of shots without further intervention. Use the batcher to do the time-consuming tracking, then come back for final checks and to set up a coordinate system. Or use it for stabilizing a group of shots.
2006-10-09. 4:53 long.
Shows how to convert from field of view to focal length and back using plate width, and how to use field of view and focal length to compute the back plate width of your camera.
2007-11-09. 7:05 long.◆◆◆
SynthEyes easily is the best camera match mover and object tracker out there.
Matthew Merkovich