[Tracking info from FCPX or Motion 5?]

As far as I know, there is no provision for 2D motion tracking in A:M unless someone were to make use of a 3D motion-capture format in some 2D way.

 

You are asking about motion that has somehow been captured off of a 2D video, right? I don't have FCP but I have After Effects, it has an ability to track a detail in a video.

 

I can't think of anyone here having experimented with that. My initial question would be... where does this 2D plane of motion live in the 3D space of A:M after it has been imported? I suppose you could stick it somewhere manually?

 

The short answer is, no, A:M doesn't import 2D motion tracking. It's not something A:M has built-in right now.

 

The longer answer is... maybe it wouldn't be hard to convert? What does this file format look like? If it's like a human-readable text file and it's just XY positions for each frame, I can imagine someone writing a converter.

 

Can you post a small example of one of these files? I'd just be curious to see one.

 

Hi Robert,

Yes, you've got the idea of what I want to do.

 

I'm a programmer, so I could do whatever conversion is necessary but don't have access to the 2D motion output yet. But, I think your idea is sound to convert the 2D to the 3D...

 

In use, Motion 5 will track a point on the 2D plane, but it also gives me scaling and rotation so the result should be something like 2.5D... using scale for a partial Z... I'm thinking once the heavy lifting is done in the motion file - I could fine tune in A:M (as objects that I wish to animate will need to cross paths, one behind the other.)

 

Rendering in A:M with an Alpha channel and bring it into FCPX and I should be good *IN THEORY*, but I don't have A:M to try this... so, was hoping someone may have come this way before where I could benefit from their knowledge.

 

The effect is certainly powerful...

-charlie

[Tracking info from FCPX or Motion 5?]

It seems that the BVH is a skeletal hierarchy for motion. What I get from FCPX (Motion 5) is tracking motion info... For instance, in the RAPTOR video example (link above) the Raptor makes his way around the corner and down the hall... this is his "track". I'm assuming the BVH motion is his walking motion, muscles, head, etc.

 

I'll make the skeletal manually, however, I need to import the FCPX tracking ...

 

Are these one and the same, or what are the formats for the TRACK in side of A:M?

 

Thank you for all input!

 

-charlie

[Tracking info from FCPX or Motion 5?]

Hi chariev,

 

I don't think A:M directly supports a FCP motion format.

 

Biovision BVH and Polhemus DAT and Polhemus Network are the formats mentioned in the motion capture device list. Of those, BVH is the only one i recall people making use of. That has been done successfully.

 

I don't know if there is a way to convert.

 

Yes A:M has been used to do that many times. One ofthe projects i could think of is this one:

Stian's raptors

 

See u

*Fuchur*

 

Thanks for your reply (and link to the Raptor post!)

 

Is there a step-by-step tutorial some place? I'm not even sure of the terminology in order to do my own search... "Object motion"

 

Thanks for the help!

-charlie

[Tracking info from FCPX or Motion 5?]

Hi chariev,

 

I don't think A:M directly supports a FCP motion format.

 

Biovision BVH and Polhemus DAT and Polhemus Network are the formats mentioned in the motion capture device list. Of those, BVH is the only one i recall people making use of. That has been done successfully.

 

I don't know if there is a way to convert.

 

 

Thank you for your reply.

 

Where would I find some documentation on the above formats (esp. BVH) I'll look into writing a conversion app.

 

-charlie

[Tracking info from FCPX or Motion 5?]

Hello,

 

This is a pre-purchase A:M inquiry...

 

I use Final Cut Pro X for video editing and Motion 5 for tracking information from the video...

 

1. I would like to know if anyone has experience with loading Motion 5 tracking information so I may animate an object from that tracking info?

2. Has anyone worked on using A:M to animate an object in a video using tracking? Would you like to share your experience?

 

Thank you!

-charlie