Tagged with tracking - Personal View Talks http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/tracking/feed.rss Sun, 28 Apr 24 20:16:31 +0000 Tagged with tracking - Personal View Talks en-CA Tracking sources/adaptations in films or a copy of a copy of a copy http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9895/tracking-sourcesadaptations-in-films-or-a-copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:23:40 +0000 maxr 9895@/talks/discussions image

Remakes can be included, but that's just the easy way in... maybe if they're remakes (you think) are better than it's progenitalia...

BIG SPOILERS!!!

Ok, so Christopher Priest wrote The Prestige in 1995. Much before Nolan's adaptation to screen, 2006, in Eduardo Mignogna's film La Fuga (Argentinian-spanish co-production) from 2001 you can see the doubles trick (same Christian Bale used later ) used in a very intelligent way by the poker player crak Víctor Gans. La fuga is based in director's novel with same name from 1999. Did Eduardo Mignogna knew Priest's book??? Eduardo Mignogna never got to see The prestige as he died that same year

What you got? =)

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Sophisticated Microsoft motion tracking software smooths Hyperlapse Videos http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/11026/sophisticated-microsoft-motion-tracking-software-smooths-hyperlapse-videos Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:18:42 +0000 Bernie 11026@/talks/discussions http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/

This is on a number of new sites but i don't think its been posted here. Interesting idea, thoughts?

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Motion Tracking SDK for developing Adobe Premiere Plug-In needed http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/11327/motion-tracking-sdk-for-developing-adobe-premiere-plug-in-needed Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:30:59 +0000 editor 11327@/talks/discussions Hello, for our next Adobe Premiere Pro Plug-In we would like to integrate a motion tracking feature. Has anyone a recommendation for a motion tracker? I spoke to imageneer systems and they have a SDK for mocha, but this is really expensive. I want to track objects directly in Premiere Pro and our tool will be developed in C++.

I would prefer not to use a stand-alone software or maybe mocha in AE and export the data from there into our plug-in which would be really easy, but to integrate it directly.

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DaVinci Resolve 10 http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/6641/davinci-resolve-10 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:00:40 +0000 tida 6641@/talks/discussions image

This is a no charge upgrade for existing customers and will be available in Q3.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 10

Resolve Live

  • Grade Live incoming SDI video and save grading snapshots with metadata and stills

New Editing Enhancements for Project Finishing

  • Multi track video and audio editing
  • Extensive clip trimming support
  • High quality optical flow image processing
  • Static, lower third, scroll and crawl titles
  • Compound clips
  • Three point and four point fit-to-fill editing
  • Transform, crop and opacity video effects
  • Multiple Take selection
  • Expanded XML and AAF roundtrip support
  • Built-in generators for bars and test patterns
  • Audio level controls with track mixing
  • Matchframe linking for source and timeline viewers
  • Stereoscopic 3D editing
  • Media Pool list view now includes a filmstrip view

New Color Correction Enhancements

  • Support for an unlimited number of industry standard OpenFX plug-ins per clip
  • Unlimited Power Windows per node
  • New Gradient Power Window
  • Power Window presets to combine multiple windows
  • PowerCurve Window freehand drawing and processing enhancements
  • Copy and Paste of Tracking Data between Power Windows
  • Power Window rotation available on the 4th trackball on the BMD control panel
  • Motion Effects palette - In full version of DaVinci Resolve
  • Chrominance control for Spatial noise reduction - In full version of DaVinci Resolve
  • Temporal noise reduction - In full version of DaVinci Resolve
  • Motion blur - In full version of DaVinci Resolve
  • Enhanced blur with 10x range increase
  • Contrast and pivot controls in 3-Way color and Primary palettes
  • Split screen viewer display with SDI output
  • CinemaDNG and ARRI Raw decoder options for half and quarter resolution
  • Debayer and image scaling quality modes for systems with low GPU power
  • Keyframe Timeline metadata now saved with Gallery Stills
  • Drag and drop stills between Gallery pages
  • Grab missing stills for all clips
  • PowerGrades will now be append to the node editor with double click
  • Enhanced Lightbox display with colour correction controls and SDI output
  • Node based PTZR controls
  • Corrector Node RGB/YUV selector for channel isolation
  • Splitter and Combiners Nodes for single channel effects
  • Optimized latency while grading complex node graphs
  • Render Cache metadata is now saved with the project
  • Global grade bypass for quick before/after grade review
  • Auto Stabilization improvements to track shots with camera pans
  • Additional External Matte Freeze and current clip settings
  • Burn-in options for individual and global formatting and whether to display item labels
  • User selectable LUT selection for GUI Viewer and Scopes
  • Printer Light Hotkey grading
  • Additional timeline filters to sort the colour and deliver timelines
  • Keyboard shortcut to full screen viewer mode
  • Media and Edit page viewer now includes a zoom to fit selector
  • The switching clip selection now also in the node editor options menu
  • Projects can now be arranged and saved within project folders for easy organisation
  • Projects and project folders can be cut and pasted between project folders
  • 3rd party panel improvements

Media Support Enhancements

  • AVI clip decoding
  • JPEG 2000 decoding
  • Viewer display with side-by-side audio waveform or VU display options
  • Auto Sync of Dailies audio and video using matching time code
  • Edit clip metadata concurrently with audio and video sync
  • User definable preset list of metadata to be displayed on screen
  • Log ACES support
  • Sony Slog2 IDT for ACES
  • Canon C500 IDT for ACES
  • Additional Media Pool fields for clip metadata includes shot, scene, take, angle, circled and camera roll #

Deliver Enhancements

  • Audio tracks are now displayed in the timeline with video clips
  • Audio VU meters with dBu and VU range selection
  • Additional render option to JPEG 2000 for DCP generation
  • Additional render resolution templates
  • Render settings now include optional render job version name
  • Integration with easyDCP using license purchased from EasyDCP (Available for Mac and Windows)

General Enhancements

  • OpenCL support for multiple AMD GPUs on Windows
  • Menu bar support on Linux
  • Linux CentOS 6.3 support
  • General performance and stability improvements
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Jittery footage from GH2 when tracking/panning .. why's that ?? http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9316/jittery-footage-from-gh2-when-trackingpanning-..-whys-that- Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:21:04 +0000 AlanEHoward 9316@/talks/discussions Hi, I just shot a short promo for an events company and the pans and track seem to have a jitter to them ... look here http://vimeo.com/user1415033/review/83892278/e7e9cd0822 It was shot in cinema mode at 24P (which I believe is actually 23.976) at (probably) 50th sec

I've also just seen this on YouTube which seems to suggest that this footage ALWAYS has a jitter to it ..is that right??

Any advice would be much appreciated....

Thanks

Alan

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So long, but thanks for the fish... (eye) - A Protest Video. http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5603/so-long-but-thanks-for-the-fish...-eye-a-protest-video. Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:35:11 +0000 duartix 5603@/talks/discussions @Vitaliy_Kiselev: sorry if this is the wrong place, but I feel it covers so many topics (GH2, FlowMotion2, Samyang7.5mm, capture, defishing, AE workflow, Premiere workflow) that I wouldn't know where else to put it. Let me know if you want it moved.

The short story: 31-OCT, the day the Portuguese Budget for 2013 was approved. People gathered in front of the Parliament to say we're being governed by thieves. Not very original I know, but it's a great place to shoot video and take pictures (well at last until it degenerates into mayhem which is rare around this parts but not unheard of until very recently). This is how I worked it.

1) The extremely simple setup:

GH2, screen folded back as a monitor, Transcend 32GB class 10, Samyang 7.5mm fisheye (my favorite video lens), set and forget to hyperfocal, ISO 400 I believe, SS=1/25s. Flowmotion 2 was used as I never know before hand how much video I'm going to capture or how many photos I'll be shooting, so I need something that is very good quality but doesn't make me have to change cards when something very important is happening. If the card is pre-formatted (the extended, not the quick format) it has never failed me to span.

2) The capture:

This is all about getting there up front and trying not to shake the camera. The police until very recently (and only after a 1h stone shower) has been instructed not to charge, so it's an easy job, you just dodge the TV reporters and other amateurs like me. So, here's my first mistake: the aperture is fine, this lens is sharp as an axe, but should have upped the ISO and set a faster SS because in these situations you are always bound to get bumped and it shows in wobbles after software stabilization.

3) Defishing the Samyang:

Load the MTS into AE. Export as image sequence. Use a batch (http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/69869#Comment_69869) to defish the images and import the output again to AE now as image sequence. The defishing was done using the Panini projection. It's loads more natural on people than Rectilinear, it preserves a lot more corner resolution and still manages to keep a few lines straight. This was the first export and not reasonably quick because the synthesis part takes it's toll: ~2-3fps.

4) Stabilizing:

Throw AE's Warp Stabilizer on the footage. Set the "Smoothness" to 15-25% (it will require much less cropping later) set borders to "Stabilize, Synthesize Edges" (again a lot less cropping) but drop the "Synthesis Input Range" to 0,2s otherwise you'll bog AE. In this kind of footage there is usually little point in using a higher value. Skim the footage looking for black borders and try to resize and reframe it so that they don't become evident. Note: defishing after stabilizing should make more sense as you would have more image to work with (defishing crops it) but from a few rough tries, the AE stabilization isn't clearly as effective when working on fisheye footage. This was the second export and a very long one: below 1fps.

5) CC & Denoising:

Used some of ColorGHear's gears, notably GHrain killer to kill a bit of noise and blockiness, but the footage was already very clean from the start and little color correction was used, just a little bit of levels adjusment. This was the third export and I believe it was even longer than the third due to the noise reduction filters: below 0.5fps.

6) The "so long" part: video effects, tracking and subtitling:

Translations were pretty quick, the hard and long part (at least until I found out how to smooth it) was tracking. It was fastidious to track people's features, takes a long time and needs constant review and adjustment. In the end I found out a few tricks (like increasing the tracking area) and smoothing the tracking points. This eased the job a lot and gave much better results. In the end I had to do it sometimes up to 3x until I was satisfied with it. In the process I had to learn a lot about tracking, smoothing, 3D objects, texting, transitions and light sources. This was the forth, the quickest and last export, probably around 10fps.

7) Audio mixing.

This was the part I was more ignorant about, but turned out to be pretty simple. Even though it's pretty rough, the footage is little demanding with so much crowd noise. It was as simple as importing the last video export from AE into Premiere, importing the original sound, importing also "Le Tigre - Dike March 2001" cutting and pasting a few pieces of this track and adjusting the volume here and there to serve the original events while leaving the words of the protesters audible when needed and off I was to the final export.

The resulting video can be found here:

Here are a few pictures of the event.

Anything more you may want to know about any part of the process I'll be glad to detail it.

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Adobe Subcription Plans? http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3688/adobe-subcription-plans Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:20:52 +0000 bwhitz 3688@/talks/discussions Anybody try Adobe's new subscription plans with CS6 yet? I think I'm about to try it for After Effects. Seems to be a great deal so far... just wondering if anyone's ran into any snags or problems?

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Focus tracking for video? http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/744/focus-tracking-for-video Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:29:28 +0000 mpgxsvcd 744@/talks/discussions
It was rumored that Panasonic removed this feature because it was not considered worthy for high end video users. I can't imagine why they would think that. This might be the one feature that would actually get pro users to actually use AF for video.

If it truly is controlled by the firmware I wouldn’t expect it to be too big of a deal to add back.
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After Effects from a N00b http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1906/after-effects-from-a-n00b Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:47:38 +0000 itimjim 1906@/talks/discussions
Anyway, in an effort over Christmas, having a little time to myself, I decided to embark on learning a bit more about After Effects. And what better footage to work on than our incomplete short. We'd done a few edits and quick grades, but nothing serious, so now was the time.

First of all, the script called for this to be set at night time, and we'd shot in the daylight. Plus, there was supposed to be a character that magically appears in the garage, and we'd left the bloody side door open! We also wanted to add some form of special effects, knowing full well it would look cheesy, we just didn't want it to look like we'd drawn them on with crayons.

I've put together a few screencasts of our learning process and what we did, and I just thought they might be useful to anyone that is very new to all of this. These are by no means tutorials though, just commentary around what we did, why and our learning experience.

After Effects Door Removal Clone Tool (Part 1)


After Effects Door Removal Clone Tool (Part 2)


Learning After Effects Commentary: Crop, Levels, Day for Night


Learning After Effects Commentary: Light Effects and Motion Tracking


And here was the result of my learning efforts, which I was quite pleased with considering how much of a novice I am.


Camera: Panasonic GH2 (Unhacked)
Lens(es): Panasonic 14-140 4-5.8
Software: After Effects/Premiere Pro CS5.5, 5DtoRGB Batch, Red Giant (Looks, Shine), Video CoPilot (Optical Flares)

Hope its useful to someone.

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