Comments on: Camera tracking tutorial with Blender and Voodoo

By: Dayal

Dayal — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:49 +0000

Hi Sympodius

Where can i find the Tutorial on Voodoo +blender

Best Regards
Dayal
Singapore

By: Sympodius

Sympodius — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:51:10 +0000

I have updated the tutorial to work with Blender 2.46. I've also (based on suggestions here) removed the need to use Adobe Premiere 2.0 and the Python Image Processing. Everything is now done solely within Blender and Voodoo.

I hope this helps anyone that is having problems.

By: nihylius

nihylius — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:07:55 +0000

use mplayer for split the movie into raw images fast and stable solution

mplayer movie.avi -vo tga –nosound

By: rubicon

rubicon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:44:10 +0000

The tutorial is very explanatory. A fine start for beginners about the concept and the relevant things (Aspect ratio, pixels)

but for those who sympathize Syntheyes:
if you tweak the parameters of Voodoo, you can also get great results.
(I mean the tracking parameters, now follow the general rules for success)
If you ran the python-script exported by Voodoo you see a point-cloud, the voodoo-cam and an empty.
Tip of the day: move and rotate that empty really fine with your background image and blender-objects to match.
If your sequence is too long, it will slowly drift away in a direction, so compensate this by adding an ipo to that empty or track shorter sequences.

This post may (should) be deleted after my hints are adapted in the tutorial ;)

By: ROUBAL

ROUBAL — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:52:31 +0000

I also started with Voodoo, and switched to SynthEyes.

Syntheyes has also an exported for Blender,and works fine with it.

By: Teatime

Teatime — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:29:43 +0000

hehe nice tutorial, much better than that other done by two guys about camera mapping in blender, you know the one where they argue and talk rubbish.

By: Sympodius

Sympodius — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:55:23 +0000

Hey everybody, thanks for the supportive comments and for posting me on blender nation. What a thrill!

@amdbcg: Cheers for that info, I'll look into that and see if I can replace Adobe Premiere CS3 with Blender in the tutorial.

By: Sorbus

Sorbus — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:54:28 +0000

Don't forget the free Icarus software (not for commercial use):

http://www.peerlessproductions.com/tuts/pages/Icarus.html

It turned into a commercial product from Pixelfarm called PF-Hoe. This sells for only £49! The cheapest of the commercial options.

http://www.pfhoe.com/hoe.htm

By: jayh

jayh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:05:56 +0000

Dolby – I hope you are right… no reason Blender can't compete with commercial products as we all know…

By: Dolby

Dolby — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:35:55 +0000

But isn't there going to be a camera tracker in blender really soon?