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Exciting news! SynthEyes has joined Boris FX and its award-winning VFX product family. Find out what this means for you. |
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This extensive, detailed, tutorial shows an anamorphic shot being locked to a lidar scan. The resulting solve is used as a starting point for several additional tutorials. This process can also be used for non-anamorphic shots; for example matching architectural models to drone shots (using a standard radial lens model).
2023-04-14. 24:53 long.
Runs through the many new features of the Nuke exporter in SynthEyes 2304, including distortion export to Nuke Lens Distortion nodes (not STmaps) using overscan rendering if the Lens Workflow script has not been run; supporting both 1- and 2-pass workflows if it has. Other features include projection screens, auto-run, paste-to-clipboard, and New 3-D support.
2023-04-14. 11:20 long.
This tutorial shows what the field of view produced by SynthEyes corresponds to, and introduces a new script that produces numbers that are comparable to lens barrel values and spec sheet numbers --- and also the sensor size value required for any of those numbers to have plausible accuracy.
2023-04-14. 6:24 long.
Shows a rack focus shot of a lens grid being analyzed using "animaate by frames" parameter solving mode to examine the horizontal and vertical scaling changes produced by lens focus breathing. This process can be used on simple but frequently encountered shots such as a hand-held but static shot of an actor, with a change in focus.
2023-04-14. 11:13 long.
This follow-on focus breathing shot looks at a somewhat more realistic shot, using the "Animate on Keys" lens parameter solving mode to control parameter jitter when there are fewer trackers available.
2023-04-14. 12:15 long.
Shows how SynthEyes's lens parameter solving modes can be used to determine animated lens distortion parameters on a shot with a large zoom. "Animate on keys" mode allows a tailored distortion curve, preventing the animated distortion parameters from introducing jitter into the solved shot.
2023-04-14. 7:01 long.
Discusses anamorphic distance, an optical feature of anamorphic lenses with significant, but little understood, impact on matchmoving and graphics, which can explain a number of their unusual properties. Shows how SynthEyes can calculate it, how it can be compensated for, what that looks like, and how it can be handled in downstream applications.
2023-04-14. 14:14 long.
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.
Gives an overview of new features in SynthEyes 2204 to look out for, PLUS talks about the new SyFlo2 license manager and the two new managed license types. Important: you'll need to upgrade everything to 2204 and SyFlo2 at once!
2022-03-19. 10:38 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.
Rectify Grid is a new capability to "just fix" arbitrarily distorted lens grids, producing STmap image distortion maps. In addition to describing that, the tutorial discusses creating and shooting lens grids, no matter how or what will process them, in hopes of addressing the plague of disastrous lens grids that customers receive to be analyzed. Crucially, lens grids must reach the image's edges!
2022-03-22. 7:28 long.
SynthEyes 2204 introduces a powerful new exporter for the Universal Scene Description (USD) file format, which may eventually supercede the Filmbox (FBX) and Alembic (ABC) file formats. We show its operation, plus a number of helpful tricks, including using the USD Toolset for viewing and format conversion.
2022-03-30. 7:55 long.
SynthEyes 2204 now features frame number, timestamp, and timecode burn-in to Camera and Perspective Views, and Save Sequence and Preview Movie output. This tutorial shows the controls and various details.
2022-03-22. 3:46 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 2106 now offers tooltips and optionally, menus, script names, and user interface elements, in 25 languages. It also supports international Unicode UTF-8 characters in file, tracker, camera, mesh, etc names, and notes and file descriptions.
2021-06-03. 7:30 long.
Shows how to align a shot to a reference shot, using 3 or more AprilTags in the scene for easy alignment. This example uses an outdoor scene from a Wiral cable rig, though AprilTags may be even more useful indoors and in green-screen shots.
2021-05-30. 8:59 long.
Shows how you can use the AprilTags tracking capability of SynthEyes for object tracking, illustrated by tracking two tags taped to a hand-held phone. Source and result footage is available on our website in the Downloads | Example Files area.
2021-05-21. 5:37 long.
Shows a box with 3 AprilTags being tracked using Corner Tracker mode, combined as a single moving-object track. Bonus: a coordinate system setup along the box's diagonal, resulting in the box becoming the hilt of a sword.
2021-05-26. 10:34 long.
SynthEyes easily is the best camera match mover and object tracker out there.
Matthew Merkovich