Great! but.... how to render all this? I mean, i've tried to render but i can't see the video in the background... also i dunno how to put the shadows... :)
Maya just looses the track point after every 2-3 frames because my video is not deinterlaced, Can I track every point manually and get the same result ?
yes its seems Maya Live has been replaced. Its no longer found in the Plug-in loader. Matchmover is a standalone application that does Maya Live functions. There arent many tutorials yet about Matchmover. If you could make one on CREATING COORDINATE SYSTEMS, that part is a little confusing. been looking for tutorials but there isnt any...
@ampcorp I'm pretty sure it should be. I haven't used Maya in a while (Have to use cinema4D for work), so I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it comes with current versions of Maya.
What version of Maya do you have? Maybe someone else here in the comments can help you.
Well I have the 30 day trial version of Maya 2011, so maybe that it's the trial version. I did however notice that when I installed Maya it also installed another small program (which is compatible with Maya) called Autodesk Matchmove. Maybe that does something similar?
@ampcorp Okay, it sounds like they've replaced the maya live plugin with Autodesk Matchmove. It probably works better and easier than maya live, I'll have to look into it myself some time.
@ampcorp Okay, it sounds like they've replaced the maya live plugin with Autodesk Matchmove. It probably works better and easier than maya live, I'll have to look into it myself some time.
For those of you who are using the trial version download the full version at h t t p : / /w w w . e g y d o w n . c o m / 2 0 1 0 - m a ya - 2 0 1 0 . h t m l (without the spaces)
really useful tutorial. thank you... I've a silly question... why, when i upload the image sequence, if i move between frames i see only the first frame of the video?? thanks a lot
Thank you - This is the best tutorial I've found on Live. Recently, Maya has been crashing when I do a final solve for the point constraint. It crashes at 10% progress, the window reads "smoothing" . .. I can't figure this out. Running 2008 on Windows XP. Any ideas?
hey dude pm me me back, for one! How did u move the grid around, and when u pressed solve how did u enlarge the top right screen, how did u choose one point at a time, it wouldnt let me, it chose just one then if i chose another it just switched to that one, and when i finished it, the video screen moved around but the the graph plane point thing didnt move at all.. please help!
hello please help me achieve and get the images in Maya now happens to me when I give Star Track brings me this error "/ / Error: / / Failed" in the scrip editor and get a window tells q progress and then closes What should I do? please help me (I do not understand English very complicated speak Spanish and I've been trying to understand the tutorial more than 1 month and stay in certain parts I'm there, thanks for the help
in your video there was a tape(radio) on the the table, can you plzz tell me how can i put my 3d image at the back of that tape..... plzzzz reply i am very confuse about that
hello, I have a problem do not know how to put the video, which is supposed to verce the video look a green box with a yellow x in the middle and not see the video, which I have q do? (I have a little bit difficult because I speak Spanish and do not quite understand the video that I did it with google translation lol) thanks for your help =)
hello, I need your help, what happens is that when I put the video in Maya is not only looks a cuadroverde with two X-shaped lines of yellow and only displays the video at frame 63 said please thanks
hola, necesito tu ayuda, lo que pasa es que cuando meto el video en maya no se ve, solo se ve un cuadroverde con dos lineas en forma de equis de color amarillo y solo se visualiza el video en el fotograma 63 responde por favor, gracias
hey khdownes1, great tutorial. I have a problem uploading a video at the beginning. I have the avi file ( video ), but it comes up as an error. Might you know what I am doing wrong
@khdownes1 Thank you. Don't know why I couldn't figure that out, when in fact I did, but there was a glitch in two of my folders. Went ahead and executed the same, and the sequence was there. Thanks again, sorry for the bother.
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. Im using matchmover 2010. I already autotrack the movie, send it to maya.. open it.. place an object but when I render it.. only the object will move along with the camera (the movie will not play) do you know why? what am I missing?? thanks
ive absolutely gotta try that. wow i hate it when something that is crucial to be tought in school isnt. and then i just surf maya and find something as amazing as this.thank you very much
Can anyone help me? I followed this tutorial and it was great. got exactly what it would look like. i added a cube then rendered out the frames and composited them in after effects.
heres my problem, when i play it through maya it looks so perfect like theres no problem with the tracking or camera what so ever but when i composite the frames its jumpy. as if the camera is jumping around. not a lot but very noticable. anybody know why? did i render something wrong? please help
If you are working in PAL format (ie. your comp settings are set to 25 frames per second), After Effects still defaults to NTSC (30FPS) every time you import something.
Right project assets, in AE, right click on the image sequence you have imported and click on the interpret option.
You need to make sure the frame rate is set the same as your comp settings.
Alternatively, it may be that your maya settings have been set to a different FPS.
Thanks for the great tutorial! But I've got a problem, when I create a trackpoint, who do I move it? Because I can't move it with the move tool. (uses mac os) Can you give me a tip? Thanks!
Class Video. It took me 3 days to figure out that you need to use certain name file for Maya I use this NAME.#####.iff NAME is the name of the file you are calling it then a dot . then the hash symbol to represent the number of frames, then dot again and then iff or png or gif or whatever. If I render a frame here in Maya, I can't seem to get anything on the render shot except the square that I added!!! Help. I have After Effects.
@Itachigreeneyes In Maya, press f6 for the Render Tab, then go to Render-> Batch Render. Before that u need to set the settings in render settings. First go to the render settings, change the Frame/animation to "name_#.ext" then set the starting and ending frames. Maya will the save the sequence wherever u set it to save. Hope this was helpful
To create an image sequence you'd need to open your video file in a program like Adobe After Effects and export a file sequence. PNG is a really good type, though jpeg is good, too. What programs do you have? Send me a message and I'll help you out :)
if we need a character to walk on the road or bushes do we need to track the background first then animate the walk or animate the walk then track the footage background could you answer plz thanks
Is Maya Live smart enough to fill in the gaps when tracking points go off screen and new points come into shot? I need to do a shot where the camera tilts down in a doorway to reveal something on the doormat.
how do you split a video into images, and at what fps? I find it very sloppy of them to only accept images instead of reading the video and treating frames as images...ugh
It is not sloppy to require image sequences, it is quite the opposite.
Whereas still image formats like jpeg compress an image by grouping pixels with neighbouring pixels etc., video codecs compress pixels by averaging them across time as well.
This can cause big problems with tracking.
Also, with an image sequence you don't have problems with interlacing fields and stuff.
Theyre actually forcing people to be less sloppy with their workflow.
Remember: it's not sloppy just because its unfamiliar.
Great tutorial, but I have hit a snag.. When I solve I do not get the same results as you. The plane, the trackpoints and the camera all shit to a different position but draggon across the timeline doesn't show the camera and the plane moving around.. just the trackpoints.. any idea what I am doing wrong?
Ok never mind, solved it. One question remains though. Are you suppose to render the scene WITH the image plane? And if so, how do i include it to the renderer? Cus im not getting the plane in there.
No, you should never render out with a background image.
You should instead render out just the 3D elements as an image sequence with an alpha channel (apply a "use background" material to the floor plane, to get shadows with an alpha channel), then use after effects to composite it over the top of your original video footage.
That way you have the freedom to adjust the colour grade on the 3D elements to match the footage more or render out an occlusion pass and multiply it on top, etc. etc.
ok i couldnt get this to work at all... When i press solve the first time my camera just moves to a random place and it doesnt simulate at all. Its exactly like the initial1 but at a different location.. help anybody?
i've created a new tracking point but the problem is i couldn't select the tracking point and put it in the desired place. Can any body help me please.
I've gotten red yellow and fixed the points to green. I've gotten plenty of Blue..... Does that mean perfect? is it better than green?
Also i tried to solve when my bars were mostly green and blue with a little yellow here and there. and they all came out red. this was with only 5 points. should i use more track points? someone have any ideas?
man the tut is great , thanx , BUT there is a problem , THE image SEQUENCE DOESNT APPER IN RNDERING , only the objects , i tried to tun of the cache , it didnt work , only the objects apper in the rendering , but not the background (the plane ), help plz
That the Image Sequenze doesn't appear in rendering you can not change I think. But this should not be a problem. My proposal: Render the matching object with Maya and after that add the rendered images and the sequence (movie) together with a simple movie editor. The result is the same.
..and for image sequence, you can convert your mov or avi with the use of avi to png converter..just google it....and yes after effects is always there.
Hey, sorry if I'm not super helpful here (I haven't had the chance to use maya in my job much lately, so I cant remember everything off the top of my head)
But I think the reason you cant move the track point is because you are in object mode rather than vertex mode or something. I think this same thing happened to me and it took me a while to notice I had changed the selection mode.
i've tried importing an image sequence but it doesnt show up??! it just shows a green box with yellow cross in the middle...ive tried hitting 5/6/7 but nothing works...any ideas? cheers
hi.. i could not do it, im mexican and i do no understand very well english.. you can say me the name of a web site witn a tutorial.. thancks.. help please.
I am having trouble, i have a wmv video and when i import it onto the camera it is just blank and see though, when i render from the camera i just see black and nothing else. I have also tried using a avi format but that is also not working. Do you have any idea what is causing this?
You need to use an image sequance. Open your Avi. or Wmv in After Effects and remder it as a PNG. sequence. Then you can import the first image and it'll come up as a movie.
maya word is a sanskrit word(indian) and it means illusion....everything you see has been created..just an illusion not real. For eg. earth, trees, animals..all are created by god. So that makes god an animator! :)
Fantastic man, you should create a proper quality tutorial on Live track like digital tutors, digital tutors didn't create anything on live track yet.
OMFG THAT WAS AMAZING at uni we been using Max and Syntheyes but what concerned me was getting the ground to stick properly I mean we track it and stuff but like I wish I knew about this before that seemed so good considering I'm a Maya guy
Nice tutorial dude... But i am using 3ds max to track and i am still not getting it right... I am really frustrated... can you help me get some good tutorial links ..... Please
Great tutorial! Thanks! I followed it successfully. One question: can Maya Live be used successfully to bring live action (subject/people on a green screen)into a 3D world, like in Sin City, or Spy Kids, as opposed to animating 3D objects in the "Real World"? Any suggestions on how to do that with Maya Live would be great. Do you think it's only possible with Boujou added?
I don't see why you'd need to use motion tracking to place people in a 3D world.
Unless you wanted to camera to move I suppose.
In that case I guess it would be done exactly the same as in this tutorial. Film the actors on a big green screen and put some white bits of paper or something all around the greenscreen for tracking.
Then just create the 3D environment, instead of a 3D object, render it out, and plonk the actors in there using After Effects or Shake to key out the green.
Also, it's like I can't select the "image plane" where the video is, only the camera. Can someone send me or post a simple MB file with video or something??? I'm at my wits end here...
I know it's something stupid...I just can't figure it out....Maya is so frustrating some times.......WTF...I just want to render my stupid scene.......
Is there any perferred diagram/design that the tracking points need to be? They are tough to see in this example? Do we just pick 9-10 points arbitrarily?
cool stuff. i prefer using Shake or pretty much anything else for camera tracking but it's good to know this i suppose.
Head over to my youtube account or website for the start of an entire series of 60+ vids covering Maya from interface to advanced topics if you like. : )
It's weird, I tried setting different track points on the footage but Maya seems to stop trakcing and lose the point after a few frames, even when I keep clicking 'start track', it won't go further.
is it possible that a poor quality of footage (old camera) might interfere with the tracking quality?
-The footage is bad quality (too dark, not enough contrast or something etc.)
-could be to do with interlacing confusing maya, try deinterlacing the footage.
-You may be moving the camera too fast when you filmed, so motion blur is causing the image to distort and maya is no longer able to make out the track point.
You can overcome some bits by positioning the trackpoint yourself for a few frames, then let maya take over again.
I tested a simple sphere on a plane (which has Use Background material assigned
WHen I do the preview render, the plane which is supposed to be 'invisible' is still a white plane in the preview render; however, the alpha channel preview indicates me that the image has correct alpha, so it will be alright after then final rendering.
But I would it to key out the alpha right in the preview window so I can adjust the object material to match the environment. How can I do that ?
hmm, that's interesting, I don't think I've ever had that happen.
wait...
I think I might know: Use Background materials automatically have reflectivity on them. You need to turn "reflection limit" down or something like that, if I am remembering right.
I believe (if using after effects) if you import your .tga sequence (or whatever), you should import it with the options: Premultiplied, matte with a color of 100% black... That's my guess any-who?
yep, pre-multiplied with whatever colour matte is appropriate.
Also, one thing to keep in mind; After effects always defaults to American ntsc settings. So if your video footage is PAL format, you will need set it to interpret the footage as 25 frames per second.
Thanks for the assurance... I'm mostly a 3D artist and have been beating my fucking brains out wondering why I always had to import 2 layers per image sequence... My dumb ass (until yesterday) would import it once normally, then again with alpha flipped (some shit like that?)...Anyhow, this damn issue has came to an end! Yippie-Yay! It was really nerve racking and looked WAY fucked up if I imported chrome or other images with an HDRI reflection... AGAIN, Thanks for setting that in stone..!
my right ear...is...lonely now ;( why you soo evill!!!
cdoamh 1 month ago
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Great video keep up the good work.
NewAgeDirector 3 months ago
Maya live plugin is not in the newer versions of maya :/ you have to use matchmover meanwhile :(
Geminisleviatan 3 months ago
Great! but.... how to render all this? I mean, i've tried to render but i can't see the video in the background... also i dunno how to put the shadows... :)
Ronoa90 4 months ago
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Ronoa90 4 months ago
it doesnt centre around the centre origin? any idea
cuppacool213 5 months ago
Do you have any idea why the point constraint doesnt work, its rotated 10 in the z?
cuppacool213 5 months ago
Maya just looses the track point after every 2-3 frames because my video is not deinterlaced, Can I track every point manually and get the same result ?
munabsb 9 months ago
awesome THANK YOU God BLESS you....
fromHolySpirit 9 months ago
well done thumps up :)
faraidya 10 months ago
Dude. Awesome tute.
I'm gunna have to go play now...
ilikesmarties 1 year ago
Do you happen to know how to import tracking points into Maya 2010? I dont know how to make it work with the video
Echosphere88 1 year ago
Does Live come with Maya, or is it a plugin?
ThisOnesForReal 1 year ago
hey man, great tutorial. I've been trying to do it but mine always crashes before it finishes tracking, Any ideas why?
rikos894 1 year ago
this work on maya 2011?
ThatGuyWhoKillsHD 1 year ago
yes its seems Maya Live has been replaced. Its no longer found in the Plug-in loader. Matchmover is a standalone application that does Maya Live functions. There arent many tutorials yet about Matchmover. If you could make one on CREATING COORDINATE SYSTEMS, that part is a little confusing. been looking for tutorials but there isnt any...
josephuscbajo 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing this!
lightyear8 1 year ago
Still haven't found Maya live yet,
but I want to ask,
what would I do if the grid you put the box on wasn't where I wanted to put it?
if I were to put it somewhere else besides the blue grid would it still work?
ampcorp 1 year ago
Maya live isn't in my plug-ins, where could I get it?
ampcorp 1 year ago
@ampcorp I'm pretty sure it should be. I haven't used Maya in a while (Have to use cinema4D for work), so I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it comes with current versions of Maya.
What version of Maya do you have? Maybe someone else here in the comments can help you.
khdownes1 1 year ago
@khdownes1
Well I have the 30 day trial version of Maya 2011, so maybe that it's the trial version. I did however notice that when I installed Maya it also installed another small program (which is compatible with Maya) called Autodesk Matchmove. Maybe that does something similar?
ampcorp 1 year ago
@ampcorp Okay, it sounds like they've replaced the maya live plugin with Autodesk Matchmove. It probably works better and easier than maya live, I'll have to look into it myself some time.
khdownes1 1 year ago
@ampcorp Okay, it sounds like they've replaced the maya live plugin with Autodesk Matchmove. It probably works better and easier than maya live, I'll have to look into it myself some time.
khdownes1 1 year ago
@khdownes1
kool thanks! ^^
hope it works the same! this is a great tutorial!
ampcorp 1 year ago
well nothing much to say than good work done
mryemi33 11 months ago
@khdownes1 Where do you work?
danielodors 11 months ago
were do you get maya live for maya 2011 this is not included in software?
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NeoTheOneAndOnlyOne1 1 year ago
really useful tutorial. thank you... I've a silly question... why, when i upload the image sequence, if i move between frames i see only the first frame of the video?? thanks a lot
dknik11 1 year ago
Thank you - This is the best tutorial I've found on Live. Recently, Maya has been crashing when I do a final solve for the point constraint. It crashes at 10% progress, the window reads "smoothing" . .. I can't figure this out. Running 2008 on Windows XP. Any ideas?
MrTimHurt 1 year ago
nevermind! Got it working now. Thanks again for this!
MrTimHurt 1 year ago
Thank You
faizurr92 1 year ago
good tutorial :)
luke046 1 year ago
How can i render my tracking?, when try it it simply disappear!!. Help please!!
Greetings and great tutorial
maicortes 1 year ago
hey dude pm me me back, for one! How did u move the grid around, and when u pressed solve how did u enlarge the top right screen, how did u choose one point at a time, it wouldnt let me, it chose just one then if i chose another it just switched to that one, and when i finished it, the video screen moved around but the the graph plane point thing didnt move at all.. please help!
webmaster720 1 year ago
hello please help me achieve and get the images in Maya now happens to me when I give Star Track brings me this error "/ / Error: / / Failed" in the scrip editor and get a window tells q progress and then closes What should I do? please help me (I do not understand English very complicated speak Spanish and I've been trying to understand the tutorial more than 1 month and stay in certain parts I'm there, thanks for the help
3calvos3 1 year ago
in your video there was a tape(radio) on the the table, can you plzz tell me how can i put my 3d image at the back of that tape..... plzzzz reply i am very confuse about that
joe5178 1 year ago
hello I put the images in Maya now I have the problem with the move trakedpoint1 not left I can do? thanks
3calvos3 1 year ago
hello, I have a problem do not know how to put the video, which is supposed to verce the video look a green box with a yellow x in the middle and not see the video, which I have q do? (I have a little bit difficult because I speak Spanish and do not quite understand the video that I did it with google translation lol) thanks for your help =)
3calvos3 1 year ago
thats alot of work to do compared to after effects, bojou is much better i guess...
kenjok0008 1 year ago
hello, I need your help, what happens is that when I put the video in Maya is not only looks a cuadroverde with two X-shaped lines of yellow and only displays the video at frame 63 said please thanks
hola, necesito tu ayuda, lo que pasa es que cuando meto el video en maya no se ve, solo se ve un cuadroverde con dos lineas en forma de equis de color amarillo y solo se visualiza el video en el fotograma 63 responde por favor, gracias
3calvos3 1 year ago
Omg is this Alex Ritvetski?!
omg if it is this is such a 1 in a million coincidence
ONEyeMarco 1 year ago
hey khdownes1, great tutorial. I have a problem uploading a video at the beginning. I have the avi file ( video ), but it comes up as an error. Might you know what I am doing wrong
catsolo9 1 year ago
@catsolo9 You can only load in an image sequence, read through the comments on this video, I've explained it to like 50 other people how to do it.
khdownes1 1 year ago
@catsolo9 Hey, I just wrote an explanation of what you need to do in the video description (although it doesn't seemed to have updated yet)
khdownes1 1 year ago
@khdownes1 Thank you. Don't know why I couldn't figure that out, when in fact I did, but there was a glitch in two of my folders. Went ahead and executed the same, and the sequence was there. Thanks again, sorry for the bother.
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catsolo9 1 year ago
Great video
SadClownMovies 1 year ago
hi, i have a question plz when i track , maya only track me like 3 secs of 17 secs, how can i track all the video plz =) ?
y0utuve 1 year ago
really cool tutorial, just wish the video was a little high res
grimsfield 1 year ago
wow dude, your voice is really good voice for tutorials, its not boring and i kept with it and never dozed off. good job, great tut :)
SynthBreakdownsRus 1 year ago
haha, wow.
I cringe every time I hear my voice in the video, it's so croaky sounding.
Maybe it's the Australian accent that helps.
khdownes1 1 year ago
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. Im using matchmover 2010. I already autotrack the movie, send it to maya.. open it.. place an object but when I render it.. only the object will move along with the camera (the movie will not play) do you know why? what am I missing?? thanks
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Thanks for posting this video; the Maya help file only elaborates so much. You've saved me a lot of frustration!
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rkre1 1 year ago
Thanks for that great tutorial. Could you post the project file. My files are not working.
jchery2556 1 year ago
ive absolutely gotta try that. wow i hate it when something that is crucial to be tought in school isnt. and then i just surf maya and find something as amazing as this.thank you very much
woodystrength 1 year ago
Can anyone help me? I followed this tutorial and it was great. got exactly what it would look like. i added a cube then rendered out the frames and composited them in after effects.
heres my problem, when i play it through maya it looks so perfect like theres no problem with the tracking or camera what so ever but when i composite the frames its jumpy. as if the camera is jumping around. not a lot but very noticable. anybody know why? did i render something wrong? please help
limpbiz2789 2 years ago
I had a similar problem originally.
If you are working in PAL format (ie. your comp settings are set to 25 frames per second), After Effects still defaults to NTSC (30FPS) every time you import something.
Right project assets, in AE, right click on the image sequence you have imported and click on the interpret option.
You need to make sure the frame rate is set the same as your comp settings.
Alternatively, it may be that your maya settings have been set to a different FPS.
khdownes1 2 years ago
thank you for the reply it helped a lot. great video btw it was really helpful
limpbiz2789 2 years ago
Thanks for the great tutorial! But I've got a problem, when I create a trackpoint, who do I move it? Because I can't move it with the move tool. (uses mac os) Can you give me a tip? Thanks!
Staronicfilm 2 years ago
justinconboy1 2 years ago
Hey Guys can someone help me, how do i render it with the image sequence?
Itachigreeneyes 2 years ago
@Itachigreeneyes In Maya, press f6 for the Render Tab, then go to Render-> Batch Render. Before that u need to set the settings in render settings. First go to the render settings, change the Frame/animation to "name_#.ext" then set the starting and ending frames. Maya will the save the sequence wherever u set it to save. Hope this was helpful
MichelIchiy 2 years ago
hey thx alot that was helpful
Itachigreeneyes 2 years ago
sensational tutorial
thank you....... thanks a looooooooot
ravi5989 2 years ago
download cs4 torrent and use adobe media encoder
ShoDiezy 2 years ago
Hey Guys! Does anyone know how to render an image sequence? I only see my 3d objects not the sequence when rendering :C Help pls!
Japao01 2 years ago
Check your manual but I believe maya will render your alpha with the 3d sequence and you will need a video software to compose them
ShoDiezy 2 years ago
Thx, that helped, I use after effects for compositions now
Japao01 2 years ago
To create an image sequence you'd need to open your video file in a program like Adobe After Effects and export a file sequence. PNG is a really good type, though jpeg is good, too. What programs do you have? Send me a message and I'll help you out :)
TheMiniFigMaster 2 years ago
thank you man!
r4jk3 2 years ago
Yeah, I'm new to this, um image sequence? how is that made, what type of file is that?
killerboywr 2 years ago
if we need a character to walk on the road or bushes do we need to track the background first then animate the walk or animate the walk then track the footage background could you answer plz thanks
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pepengmarepeng 2 years ago
Thank you very much, I don't have After effect. But this tutorial is very helpful. Thank you!!
Hielorapido 2 years ago
after effectS
:)
masterpiraka 2 years ago
I know, I forgot to put the "S".
Hielorapido 2 years ago
Excellent!
Thanks very much!
upperhouse100 2 years ago
awesome tute, thanks
leggraphics 2 years ago
Is Maya Live smart enough to fill in the gaps when tracking points go off screen and new points come into shot? I need to do a shot where the camera tilts down in a doorway to reveal something on the doormat.
upsidebrown 2 years ago
Also, this tutorial is fantastic! Thanks!
upsidebrown 2 years ago
Yes you should be able to track a panning shot like that as long as you always have at least 10 or something track points on screen at any one time.
I guess all you can do is give it a try as best you can, and see if it works.
There have been some shots I've tried that I couldn't get to track properly, and just could not figure out why it wasn't working.
khdownes1 2 years ago
Oh, nvm, Sony Vegas exports like this.
lol. "too-torial"
Feuyaer 2 years ago
how do you split a video into images, and at what fps? I find it very sloppy of them to only accept images instead of reading the video and treating frames as images...ugh
Feuyaer 2 years ago
It is not sloppy to require image sequences, it is quite the opposite.
Whereas still image formats like jpeg compress an image by grouping pixels with neighbouring pixels etc., video codecs compress pixels by averaging them across time as well.
This can cause big problems with tracking.
Also, with an image sequence you don't have problems with interlacing fields and stuff.
Theyre actually forcing people to be less sloppy with their workflow.
Remember: it's not sloppy just because its unfamiliar.
khdownes1 2 years ago
Great tutorial, but I have hit a snag.. When I solve I do not get the same results as you. The plane, the trackpoints and the camera all shit to a different position but draggon across the timeline doesn't show the camera and the plane moving around.. just the trackpoints.. any idea what I am doing wrong?
Petersunnergren 2 years ago
Ok never mind, solved it. One question remains though. Are you suppose to render the scene WITH the image plane? And if so, how do i include it to the renderer? Cus im not getting the plane in there.
Yrgen2 2 years ago
No, you should never render out with a background image.
You should instead render out just the 3D elements as an image sequence with an alpha channel (apply a "use background" material to the floor plane, to get shadows with an alpha channel), then use after effects to composite it over the top of your original video footage.
That way you have the freedom to adjust the colour grade on the 3D elements to match the footage more or render out an occlusion pass and multiply it on top, etc. etc.
khdownes1 2 years ago
Ok but what if im using a glass? Without a background image the glass is almost completely black.
Yrgen2 2 years ago
I'd suggest rendering it without the image plane, then composite the two together in Aftereffects.
Petersunnergren 2 years ago
ok i couldnt get this to work at all... When i press solve the first time my camera just moves to a random place and it doesnt simulate at all. Its exactly like the initial1 but at a different location.. help anybody?
Yrgen2 2 years ago
i've created a new tracking point but the problem is i couldn't select the tracking point and put it in the desired place. Can any body help me please.
vvgiri007 2 years ago
you have to press the green button with the red arrow on it in the tracking meny
sprstkr 2 years ago
thank u dude. went further the exercise according to this tutorial but while tracking am not getting the blue plane surface as if shown in the video.
vvgiri007 2 years ago
maya live is the best for tracking...
zain6666 2 years ago
where did you get the program.
wolfeskater 2 years ago
there will be in maya 2010 an integrated high end matchmove
atyy123 2 years ago
I've gotten red yellow and fixed the points to green. I've gotten plenty of Blue..... Does that mean perfect? is it better than green?
Also i tried to solve when my bars were mostly green and blue with a little yellow here and there. and they all came out red. this was with only 5 points. should i use more track points? someone have any ideas?
Cliez 2 years ago
that was AWESOME!
thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!!
sothathappened 2 years ago
this is an useful material
arnmaya 2 years ago
man the tut is great , thanx , BUT there is a problem , THE image SEQUENCE DOESNT APPER IN RNDERING , only the objects , i tried to tun of the cache , it didnt work , only the objects apper in the rendering , but not the background (the plane ), help plz
hazemhanbali 2 years ago
That the Image Sequenze doesn't appear in rendering you can not change I think. But this should not be a problem. My proposal: Render the matching object with Maya and after that add the rendered images and the sequence (movie) together with a simple movie editor. The result is the same.
QRenom 2 years ago
this was just extremely helpful thanks alot man keep up the good tutorials :)
takeitonemoretime123 2 years ago
Where would the tracking points be for "awesome" demo at the end?
Ant200thelink 2 years ago
..and for image sequence, you can convert your mov or avi with the use of avi to png converter..just google it....and yes after effects is always there.
burzum83 2 years ago
Hey Khd, thanks for the great tutorial, i'm having a problem and was wondering if you can help. I cannot move the track point. It's stuck.
cinialtoid 2 years ago
Hey, sorry if I'm not super helpful here (I haven't had the chance to use maya in my job much lately, so I cant remember everything off the top of my head)
But I think the reason you cant move the track point is because you are in object mode rather than vertex mode or something. I think this same thing happened to me and it took me a while to notice I had changed the selection mode.
khdownes1 2 years ago
You need to click the little green crosshair thing. Then you can move them.
TheMiniFigMaster 2 years ago
Hi, great tutorial...
i've tried importing an image sequence but it doesnt show up??! it just shows a green box with yellow cross in the middle...ive tried hitting 5/6/7 but nothing works...any ideas? cheers
clym3danimator 2 years ago
make sure the files are saved correctly, 0001 , 0002 etc...
cinialtoid 2 years ago
Hmmmmmmmm,good
oooooooooooman 2 years ago
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IkyTubeyou 2 years ago
Does anyone know a safe fee avi to png converter?
MegaSbc 2 years ago
Okay i figured out that...
#1 But now I can't render the motion track..?! WTF? It wont render along with the animations,, why?
#2 Whatever I do, the camera wont move around when i solve it. What can I do tp make it move?
Please help me.
tarrizzzzzzzzz 2 years ago
When i try to load my image sequence, the output window works fast as hell, and it takes like an hour to load each picture. Litarelly.
Any help here?
tarrizzzzzzzzz 2 years ago
hi.. i could not do it, im mexican and i do no understand very well english.. you can say me the name of a web site witn a tutorial.. thancks.. help please.
0pher0 2 years ago
great vid. I do alot of maya but mostly use key framing to do the tracking. Glad to see a good tut on the subject.
yipyap777 2 years ago
I am having trouble, i have a wmv video and when i import it onto the camera it is just blank and see though, when i render from the camera i just see black and nothing else. I have also tried using a avi format but that is also not working. Do you have any idea what is causing this?
Skyth101 2 years ago
You need to use an image sequance. Open your Avi. or Wmv in After Effects and remder it as a PNG. sequence. Then you can import the first image and it'll come up as a movie.
TheMiniFigMaster 2 years ago
is maya live a maya plugin, or a separate software? plz reply.
sonicballer8888 2 years ago
Maya Live is a plugin, it comes with Maya.
You can see at the start of this video I explain how to load up Maya Live by going into the plugin manager.
khdownes1 2 years ago
Mayuh.. lol
devestationn 2 years ago
LOL. ya its pronoucned my-ah! not mayuh!
fighterdude83 2 years ago
maya word is a sanskrit word(indian) and it means illusion....everything you see has been created..just an illusion not real. For eg. earth, trees, animals..all are created by god. So that makes god an animator! :)
burzum83 2 years ago
we are all like god in some way
DirectorJS 2 years ago
Cool tut
IHIICOD 2 years ago
Thanks for your help! Quick and easy for me in a pinch!!!
brettpedigo 2 years ago
The guy helps you out and you make fun of his accent. Classy.
brettpedigo 2 years ago
Glad it didn't work perfectly the first time so that, we could see what to do when certain problems arise.
jpanim8r 2 years ago
do you or anyone else have problems with image sequences in Maya for Mac?
monkeyproducer 2 years ago
I kinda did until i used JPEG
nimisp4000 2 years ago
my suggestion for you that you should use TIF file format so maya will show up properly.
silmusashi 2 years ago
WOW! Great tutorial. Very interesting and useful. Thanks a million.
sagi7ario 3 years ago
Fantastic man, you should create a proper quality tutorial on Live track like digital tutors, digital tutors didn't create anything on live track yet.
Jay
jamil1985 3 years ago
You really know your stuff. A superb tutorial! Thanks.
ergophonic 3 years ago
how do you convert the movie to maya?
baraksmash 3 years ago
OMFG THAT WAS AMAZING at uni we been using Max and Syntheyes but what concerned me was getting the ground to stick properly I mean we track it and stuff but like I wish I knew about this before that seemed so good considering I'm a Maya guy
Henbot 3 years ago
Nice tutorial dude... But i am using 3ds max to track and i am still not getting it right... I am really frustrated... can you help me get some good tutorial links ..... Please
john40pl 3 years ago
wowowowowo
justly44 3 years ago
what type of file is the video you import into maya because i try to bring in either a wmv or avi but it wont let me
fruad 3 years ago
read the other comments on this video, I've explained it 10 times already.
khdownes1 3 years ago
hey can u tell me what r the minimum requirements for PC to do this (so that it render smoothely n easily etc etc)
DatoFarid 3 years ago
Sorry, I can't really tell you what minimum requirements are appropriate.
I mean, it all depends on how you're rendering (ie. using hardware rendering, or using mental ray, global illumination, ambient occlusion etc.)
At the moment, I'm using a e6600 core2duo processor with 2gb ram.
khdownes1 3 years ago
that helpd me.
:)
well i have 2GB RAM.
but im using old processor hehe.
what if i wanna make somekind of..
erm.
very realistic 3D animation.?
4GB.?
DatoFarid 3 years ago
As I said, I really can't tell you.
I doesn't matter that you have a slower processor, all it means is that it will take a little longer to render.
khdownes1 3 years ago
aigght man thanx a lot.
DatoFarid 3 years ago
hey, thanks. I'm about to use maya live for my first motion tracking project for school, so i'm just orientating. This is very usefull.
Cool voice and accent by the way :D
Bram1978 3 years ago
Hi Kyle!
Great tutorial! Thanks! I followed it successfully. One question: can Maya Live be used successfully to bring live action (subject/people on a green screen)into a 3D world, like in Sin City, or Spy Kids, as opposed to animating 3D objects in the "Real World"? Any suggestions on how to do that with Maya Live would be great. Do you think it's only possible with Boujou added?
Thanks!
RealityTVMovie 3 years ago
I don't see why you'd need to use motion tracking to place people in a 3D world.
Unless you wanted to camera to move I suppose.
In that case I guess it would be done exactly the same as in this tutorial. Film the actors on a big green screen and put some white bits of paper or something all around the greenscreen for tracking.
Then just create the 3D environment, instead of a 3D object, render it out, and plonk the actors in there using After Effects or Shake to key out the green.
khdownes1 3 years ago
my maya live does not take in mov format. How come i cannot import a video ??
MagicianMX 3 years ago
Read all the other comments in this video, I've explained exactly what you need to do to like 10 other people. Hope it helps.
khdownes1 3 years ago
Thanks, man. This was a big help. I didn't even know Maya could do that.
unpicked1 3 years ago
Thank you very much
zigaretos 3 years ago
Also, it's like I can't select the "image plane" where the video is, only the camera. Can someone send me or post a simple MB file with video or something??? I'm at my wits end here...
clebo99 3 years ago
Also, when I render, I can't see the Maya Live background (I only see the cube). What am I doing wrong?
clebo99 3 years ago
I think there might be an option in the image planes/backgrounds attributes.
Try open up the outliner and select the maya live image plane (I dunno what it is labelled), and look for the render options for it.
khdownes1 3 years ago
I know it's something stupid...I just can't figure it out....Maya is so frustrating some times.......WTF...I just want to render my stupid scene.......
clebo99 3 years ago
in your live controls :: left drop down, change that to 'Setup' :: click the radio box next to Cache :: then uncheck 'Use Cache'
Myron78 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
What would it be called in the outliner?
clebo99 3 years ago
Is there any perferred diagram/design that the tracking points need to be? They are tough to see in this example? Do we just pick 9-10 points arbitrarily?
clebo99 3 years ago
You need to pick a point that is well defined/high contrast from surrounding areas.
Thats why I chose to film this on a patterned table cloth, because it has a heap of spots like that.
Track points usually also work well on the corner of things, if it stands out fromt he background.
Just keep playing around with it, you'll work out what works well pretty quickly.
khdownes1 3 years ago
must it be an image sequence? What format can Maya live import?
vofff 3 years ago
Has to be an image sequence, to my knowledge that's the only way to import the video to maya live.
khdownes1 3 years ago
is there another way to import avi, mpeg, wmw file into maya without using Maya Live? But still can use motion track maybe in another mode?
vofff 3 years ago
no.
khdownes1 3 years ago
cool stuff. i prefer using Shake or pretty much anything else for camera tracking but it's good to know this i suppose.
Head over to my youtube account or website for the start of an entire series of 60+ vids covering Maya from interface to advanced topics if you like. : )
RyanTaylor3D 3 years ago
Hi
I forgot to ask,
when you're doing realistic 3d integration, which renderer do you use?
Mentalray? or you try to accomodate with maya software?
Could you give any advice, because whatever I try I just can't get the right rendering and lighting effect...
I watched a couple of studio max and it seems so easy, omg.
:P
thx mate
NorthZephyr 3 years ago
For the quickest and easiest method:
Use mental ray, set it to production quality THEN check Final Gather. Then create a plane with the use background on it.
A better way:
Render out as render layers render it normally, then do an occlusion render, and do a geometry matte render.
Then combine them together in after effects/photoshop using track mattes/layer masks, overlays and multiplys etc.
I might do a tutorial on that once i've finished my major project.
Till then cant explain much more.
khdownes1 3 years ago
Thank you soooo much for that tutoriiialll! :) it's awesome and saved my life :D hAhah incredible :) thanks a lot pal!
RodneyWallaceDynamoC 3 years ago
It's weird, I tried setting different track points on the footage but Maya seems to stop trakcing and lose the point after a few frames, even when I keep clicking 'start track', it won't go further.
is it possible that a poor quality of footage (old camera) might interfere with the tracking quality?
thx
NorthZephyr 3 years ago
There are a few possibilities I think;
-The footage is bad quality (too dark, not enough contrast or something etc.)
-could be to do with interlacing confusing maya, try deinterlacing the footage.
-You may be moving the camera too fast when you filmed, so motion blur is causing the image to distort and maya is no longer able to make out the track point.
You can overcome some bits by positioning the trackpoint yourself for a few frames, then let maya take over again.
khdownes1 3 years ago
Thanks for the headsup, I filmed another shot and it worked not so bad
But now one more little question if you don't mind (see next comment post, Im exceeding characters limit)
NorthZephyr 3 years ago
I tested a simple sphere on a plane (which has Use Background material assigned
WHen I do the preview render, the plane which is supposed to be 'invisible' is still a white plane in the preview render; however, the alpha channel preview indicates me that the image has correct alpha, so it will be alright after then final rendering.
But I would it to key out the alpha right in the preview window so I can adjust the object material to match the environment. How can I do that ?
NorthZephyr 3 years ago
hmm, that's interesting, I don't think I've ever had that happen.
wait...
I think I might know: Use Background materials automatically have reflectivity on them. You need to turn "reflection limit" down or something like that, if I am remembering right.
khdownes1 3 years ago
I believe (if using after effects) if you import your .tga sequence (or whatever), you should import it with the options: Premultiplied, matte with a color of 100% black... That's my guess any-who?
DrewShelton 3 years ago
yep, pre-multiplied with whatever colour matte is appropriate.
Also, one thing to keep in mind; After effects always defaults to American ntsc settings. So if your video footage is PAL format, you will need set it to interpret the footage as 25 frames per second.
khdownes1 3 years ago
Thanks for the assurance... I'm mostly a 3D artist and have been beating my fucking brains out wondering why I always had to import 2 layers per image sequence... My dumb ass (until yesterday) would import it once normally, then again with alpha flipped (some shit like that?)...Anyhow, this damn issue has came to an end! Yippie-Yay! It was really nerve racking and looked WAY fucked up if I imported chrome or other images with an HDRI reflection... AGAIN, Thanks for setting that in stone..!
DrewShelton 3 years ago