Blender and Voodoo Camera Tracking: The Desk

[Zaylien]

love you explain your coffee in with the process. Damn accurate.

[Rubdos]

So... 22 hours for 13 sec video? You're crazy! For a real movie you have 15.000 hours of voodoo :D lol

[mysoulstudos]

were's onlycast? in the matreial button?

[mysoulstudos]

Shadow?

[Crozonexz]

@mysoulstudos Made a invisible plane that lines up against the real table, and then made it receive a shadow

[aninjainatree]

nice looking... but horrible animation! lol jk

[karlajihil]

nice animation.. but it really looks fake!

[askassk]

You can also make you video to tga files with it!!!

[askassk]

You can use virtual dub !!!

[MasterME17]

How do I get my video to TGA files??

[HardRocker131]

how do you use blender to convert video into a targa file?

[hqwuih]

there are tutorials for that :)

[flip5426]

LOL I thought it was real

[alexchrisccc]

i thought it was pretty random lol xD!!

[alexchrisccc]

pretty good nice job :)

[Crozonexz]

but is it random enough?

[UnreconizedPro]

i ahve made it with mpeg

[UnreconizedPro]

can you say me wich file the movie must have when you upload it to blender to render it to a targa ?

[Crozonexz]

I recorded it as an AVI, then used blender to export it to TARGAs. Then I used the TARGAs in Voodoo to track the scene.

[homersparents]

@Crozonexz

is there a good tutorial that can show the little tricks people must have to make it look right.

i followed one but my video doesn't match move well and the object looks wiggly. its like it almost tracked but not close enough.

what the trick?

[Crozonexz]

@homersparents I find that I get the best tracking results when I have a really clear video feed that is free of film grain. This is probably the most important point. Also try to avoid zooming and keep the video focused.

Also, it really helps to really tweak the options for lens aperture, focal distance etc, and enter correct information about the approximate position of the camera.

After voodoo is finished, it may want to "refine" the result. It takes forever, but is really worth it.

[Crozonexz]

@homersparents As for a tutorial, I got off the ground with this one "fictionality.co.uk/doku.php?i­d=tutorials:matchmoving"

Hope this helps