Motion Tracker Comparison - MatchMover, Maya Live, Mocha, After Effects

http://uni3d.com - I was curious about how different tracking solutions compare to one another. Recently for a class I teach I had spent considerable time poking in these 4 tools and caught the vibe they were not equal. After these tests I can at least quantify my suspicions. In most of these cases the track could have still been saved/used with a bit of manual adjustment and restarting the track with an updated or resized target or perhaps deleting odd frames that jump, but this test was to determine in a simple one-click track what these packages can do.

When comparing tracks/grades the video capture of the tracking has been adjusted to 10:00 regardless of actual tracking time.

I also conducted these tests as a way to compare MatchMover directly to Maya Live, a feature now missing in Maya 2011, replaced by MatchMover. In general MatchMover is a more featured software, though I always felt it was less accurate at point tracking than Maya Live. I suppose I'll be keeping my older Maya around for a while yet...

Interesting to note is that Mocha for After Effects, another somewhat new addition to a standard digital tool kit stole the show for sheer quality. It is ideally a surface tracker, intended to track entire planar faces of objects. I often asked it to track tiny pieces despite having a surface it could use, in order to keep things fair between software. It still beat all with a decent margin, though it took its' time to work that carefully.
The background music is "Dusk in LA" by CCMixter user rocovaco
http://ccmixter.org/files/rocavaco/31369

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[KaydaraAnimator]

Please add Blender Camera Tracking results!

[ICPJuggalo1988]

@KaydaraAnimator I was not aware Blender had that functionality... I may have to give it a go! It's been a while, before the fluid dynamics, since I sat down and tried to make something in Blender...

[ImagineerSystems]

Cool thanks for sharing! Check out Imagineer Systems web site for lots of free mocha tutorials!

[ICPJuggalo1988]

@ImagineerSystems Thanks for a surprisingly useful piece of software! I'm quickly becoming a huge fan and gearing more and more of my tracking lessons towards it. That's quality work you guys have done!

[ImagineerSystems]

By the way, the newest version of mocha AE 2.6, mocha 2.6 and mocha Pro tracks faster.

[OxSADEKxO]

great video but bad music man xD