SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

Learn how to create solid 3D tracks for advanced visual effects using SynthEyes.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Interface overview
• Preferences overview
• Matching-moving process
• Camera basics
• Photogrammetry

1. Quick Start

• Importing and evaluating footage
• Automatic tracking
• Solving and refining
• Setting up a coordinate system
• Exporting to other software

2. Setting Up Our Project

• Analyzing the shot
• Shot and project settings
• Image preprocessing
• Setting up prediction modes for our shot

3. Lens Distortion and Camera Settings

• Overview of lens distortion
• Distortion workflows
• Using Calculate Lens Distortion
• Using a lens grid to find the lens distortion
• Manually finding lens distortion

4. Masking and Roto

• Overview of masking and roto
• Setting up roto for cameras and objects
• Adding trackers to roto shapes
• Using alpha channels for roto

5. Tracking

• Automatic tracking
• Features panel (semiautomatic)
• Supervised tracking
• Combining trackers
• Zero weight trackers

6. Examining and Refining Your Tracks

• Quick check
• Using the Graph Editor
• SimulTrack view
• Cleaning up trackers
• Adding many trackers

7. Solving the Camera

• Overview of the solver
• Solving the shot
• Refining the solve

8. Setting Up a Coordinate System

• Overview of the coordinate system
• Automatic placement
• 3-point coordinate setup
• Manual alignment

9. Geometry

• Adding 3D objects
• Mesh creation

10. Tripod Shots

• Overview of tripod moves
• Setting up a tripod shot
• 3D alignment

11. Object Tracking

• Overview of object tracking
• Object tracking
• Solving for a joint moving camera and object

12. Exporting to Animation Packages

• Overview of export
• Exporting to After Effects
• Exporting to NUKE
• Exporting to Maya
• Exporting to CINEMA 4D

Conclusion

• What's next?