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Motion track in Continuum for Vegas 10
I am trying to imitate what was shown in today’s webinar with the the witness protection FX and motion tracking. I have a clip deer walking across the field that I want to highlight. All I get after adjusting target size and frame is the message telling me to go back to a previously tracked frame and clear the cache and reset the target deal.
There is no previous tracked frame. What am I missing here? Thanks
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Our guess is that you are not on the first frame of the clip. Move your timeline cursor to the very first frame (frame 0) and try that. We are thinking of refining our message to make it more clear.
Cheers,
Boris Yamnitsky
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Boris, sorry, I can’t get it to go. I have used different clips with motion tracker as well as diffent effects with the tracking option. I watched the method from the tutorial on the promo page and still scratching my head. Timeline cursor is at zero to start. Would clip quality have anything to do with it?
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I had it working several times but now I have installed the latest trial update and I get the same problem as Mike. (using 64 bit)
I have different shots and no success motion tracking. It will track a small portion and then up comes the warning, so I have to clear the cache and bring the cursor just before the message appears and keep on doing this to many times.
One question: BCC will have extruded 3D text soon for Vegas 10, will we be able to motion track the text to a background shot?
FYI, I also noticed when keyframing fx, that the keyframes when set to manual or split manual don’t work if set to curves. I also get occasional crashes using somes FX.
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I have the 64 bit version of the software trial also. I am looking to purchase, but a little leery of something else that may not perform as advertised.
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“I have different shots and no success motion tracking. It will track a small portion and then up comes the warning, so I have to clear the cache and bring the cursor just before the message appears and keep on doing this to many times.”
This sounds like you do not have enough RAM set to preview to RAM. Our motion tracking feature relies on the host being able to preview to RAM the entire clip or a significant portion of it. Dirk showed how we can change the amount of RAM Vegas allocates for preview in preferences. But of course you need to have enough physical memory on your computer. I suspect this may be a problem. If you do not have enough memory you may need to motion track in small increments. Dirk was using a machine with 8 gig of RAM installed under 64 bit OS.
If your computer is fast enough and your project size is small (SD) then you may be able to motion track on playback as Vegas will play back without skipping frames. John Rofrano shows this method here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQ_s5EEOZQ&feature=player_embedded#!
If you continue to have problems, please contact our support.
Boris Yamnitsky
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Thanks Boris,
Most likely a memory issue. I was using Canon DSLR footage, but I did managed to get motion tracking working again. What I did was copied my event to a new Vegas session, motion tracked it and copied it back to my existing Vegas project and that solved my problem.
I am using a quad core 2.66 with 6gb ram.
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I have a quadcore with 5156 MB of physical memory. I am totally baffled. I went into RAM preview and the setting wss @ 350 of a possible 3850 or so. Very troubling to say the least.
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Did some more motion tracking and got some inconsistent results, sometimes it doesn’t track while some other times it will track using the same shot and fx.
Still trying to figure out if I should go with BCC or not. I was really looking into motion tracking, but I still don’t know if it will motion track the new 3D text which isn’t available for Vegas 10 yet. I have wrote to BorisFX and got no answer yet.
I don’t have much use for BCC other than chromakey, lens flares, 3D text and 4 or 5 FX’s and, motion tracking them!BTW Mike, you might want to check that Quantize to frames is enabled
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“I went into RAM preview and the setting wss @ 350 of a possible 3850 or so. Very troubling to say the least.”
Are you saying you turned on 350 Meg out of maximum 3.850 Gig of RAM? That’s not a lot. Are you in HD project? HD frames are 4 meg each so the best you can preview is 80 frames or one second of video.
Boris Yamnitsky
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“Did some more motion tracking and got some inconsistent results, sometimes it doesn’t track while some other times it will track using the same shot and fx.”
To get consistent results, increase your RAM preview to max, place timeline cursor to first frame, reset cache. These are basic steps that are necessary in Vegas. In our testing they always work.
” I still don’t know if it will motion track the new 3D text which isn’t available for Vegas 10 yet. I have wrote to BorisFX and got no answer yet.”
Our extruded text feature does not include motion tracking. There was no such demand in the past. But I’ll keep your request in mind.
“I don’t have much use for BCC other than chromakey, lens flares, 3D text and 4 or 5 FX’s and, motion tracking them!”
All these features are available as BCC Units which are individually priced. Check out:
https://www.borisfx.com/units/
and remember that units are always credited toward the whole set so there is no risk in starting with a unit or two first.
Boris Yamnitsky
BorisFX
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