Testing CoTracker2 for VFX inside my Silhouette RotoFury interface. The results are very promising for speeding up everyday VFX tasks such as tracking, roto, and matchmove.
It is one of the best ML algorithms currently available for this kind of work, with immediate practical applications.
A complete SynthEyes for VFX training course is available today on Borgo.tv Training. The course is in Portuguese and starts from scratch for beginners while covering the key topics needed to specialise in matchmoving.
Topics covered: interface, software and license installation, parallax, manual tracking, automatic tracking, panel tracking, panel features, lens distortion theory and practice, lens-distortion workflows, anamorphic lens and anamorphic breathing solver, scene alignment and orientation, coordinate systems, scene review, 3D mesh and geometry construction, camera tracking, object tracking, alignment of 3D models in scenes and objects, indirect camera solvers, XYZ exports, planar tracking, hierarchical GeoHTrack tracking, and special SynthEyes workflows for Silhouette and Nuke.
In this video, I present the FreezeSplineWarp technique. It lets you matchmove and stabilise plates using Nuke’s SplineWarp node.
CornerPins limit you to four points, but this technique supports any number of points for finer control. I also show the scripts I developed to automate the process.
Here are the links to download the Python scripts for Nuke v7:
