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A Light and Free Photogrammetry Workflow for Blender with COLMAP

Bart ·
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Polyfjord shares a collection of tools to quickly convert video footage into a tracked pointcloud.

In this tutorial we’re exploring a fully automated workflow for 3D camera tracking using only free and open-source software! This technique uses the power of photogrammetry with COLMAP to create incredibly precise 3D tracks and point clouds from any video footage.

This tutorial covers the entire process from downloading the necessary tools (COLMAP, FFmpeg and a custom script I’ve put together) to importing the final animated camera and scene data directly into Blender.

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Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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