From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

Analyzing the shot - SynthEyes Tutorial

From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

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Analyzing the shot

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- In this video, we will take a look a few different shots and look at ways we can get them ready for tracking. The first step is gathering information. In this video, we'll take a look at how we can gather information about the shots without having any camera information. In this first shot, let's press play. We can see that the camera is dollying to the right and circling around those boxes in the foreground. We also have two people walking through the foreground that we may need to rotoscope before we start tracking. Let's look at another example. Go up to Active Tracker Host and go to Camera02, go to the beginning. If we play through this shot, first of all it looks like it's hand held, and it seems a little dark in some areas of the image. So we may need to brighten that up a little bit to help with tracking, and there's also a lot of grain in the image. So we may have to do something about the grain to smooth it out for when we start tracking. Let's look at another example, Camera03, go back to the beginning, and in this shot we have a dolly left, and the big issue here is that there's a lot of lens distortion so we'll definitely have to take care of the lens distortion before we start to track. Analyzing your footage is an important step in 3D tracking. Gathering as much information as you can, and using that information in SynthEyes can greatly improve the quality of your tracks.

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