danf Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 If I have video footage that involves motion, let's say a pan, and I want to apply this video as the background to my main A:M camera (for the sake of putting things in the right place), is there a way to automate this camera's movement to match the original camera's, so that the scene stays stationary while the camera has a pan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 If I have video footage that involves motion, let's say a pan, and I want to apply this video as the background to my main A:M camera (for the sake of putting things in the right place), is there a way to automate this camera's movement to match the original camera's, so that the scene stays stationary while the camera has a pan? You'll need to use an external application like Syntheyes or pfhoe. If you want to know about them just search the forum for those keywords, they come up in a new thread every six or eight months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danf Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 Hmm... I'm thinking I might save a couple hundred bucks by modeling marking lines that I line up with specific objects, then move the camera to keep them all consistent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luuk Steitner Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 If you want to save yourself some money, you can do the same with Icarus or Voodoo, which are both free. I made a tool called ICAM that makes it easier to import data from those applications to A:M. You can find the tutorial and downloads links here: www.zigncreations.com/icam/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 14, 2009 Hash Fellow Share Posted January 14, 2009 If you want to save yourself some money, you can do the same with Icarus or Voodoo, which are both free. !!! I did not know that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danf Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 So the ICARUS and ICAM are awesome, and I've started to try out a test shot. I suspect the problem I've hit is mac version specific. After I drag the imported movie onto my Camera-1 Shortcut, instead of the footage becoming the background for the camera, the camera background turns black, and other parts of the interface are turned into my imported movie: If I can't see the footage, there's no way I can objects up on it, let alone correct the aspect ratio... Does anyone have experience with the mac version enough to know how to make a rotoscope movie play correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danf Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 I partly suspect it could be an issue w/ A:M recognizing video codecs. Are there any codecs that are reliable to import, or do I have to create a huge Targa sequence every time I want a video roto? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 I think the prollum is prolly QT...try the tga seq and see if it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorf Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 TGA is always the way to go. Hard drives are cheap, and you'll not realistically track a HDD-filling sequence, you'd break the video down into manageable chunks. Also, A:M doesn't easily cope with non-integer framerates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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