Wednesday 1 January 2014

Matchmover

I have been meaning to learn this piece of sotware for a while now and I have finally got around to doing it. I have to say, this is possibly the easiest piece of software I have had to learn. For anyone interested in Matchmover it's a must for VFX. It's essentially a stand-alone 3D tracking software which tracks your footage and then sets 3D markers based on the track to calculate the 3D space. The easiest way to explain what Matchmover can do is by showing you. I was unable to upload my video onto blogger, so instead here is a link to the video on Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/83174201

All I did was track the shot in matchmover, then I exported the tracking data as a 3D scene to 3DS Max and rendered everything together to composite it in After Effects. It is very simply stuff but I am quite happy with my first track.