AI Motion Estimation Drives Precise 3D Tracking in Boris FX SynthEyes
The 2025.5 release helps matchmove artists solve complex shots faster, delivers unified exports across popular 3D and VFX platforms, and more.
SynthEyes 2025.5 is packed with new features that produce high-quality camera solves in less time. The latest update from Boris FX offers matchmove artists AI-assisted motion estimation and automated workflows that streamline core tasks. SynthEyes 2025.5 is now available as a low-cost standalone application ($325/year).
“Our new release focuses on strengthening three key elements of SynthEyes: tracking complex shots with machine learning, quicker scene setup, and reliable exports across any pipeline,” states Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder of Boris FX. “We’re excited to introduce matchmove artists to our second AI-powered tool inside SynthEyes with the addition of ML Motion Estimation, which offers users a practical, accurate alternative to traditional tracking methods that rely on visible features such as corners or textures.”
“I’m excited about the new Lens Workflow export. It takes something that used to be fragile and fiddly and makes it rock-solid. You export, and it works across applications without surprises,” notes Moritz Fortmann, product manager of SynthEyes. “Artists are also going to love Parent Mesh to Tracker. It’s one of those features that ends up saving tons of time, making layout and iteration way faster.”
Highlights
ML Motion Estimation is an AI-powered motion tracking option that adds machine learning technology directly into the auto-tracking process. It uses machine-learned patterns across the entire image to generate dense per-pixel motion vectors. ML Motion Estimation improves tracker prediction, reduces cleanups, and lowers solve errors on difficult footage, including low-contrast, blurred motion, lighting changes, and occlusions.
Flexible Lens Workflow exports automatically handle lens distortion across major platforms (Blender, Maya, Nuke, After Effects, Fusion, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Alembic, and FBX), providing consistent, uniform results. It applies the necessary lens settings during export, enabling matchmove artists to deliver data in the required downstream format while maintaining the original solve and footage for future use. It also offers advanced controls for margin, resolution, and rounding adjustments without changing the project itself.
Parent Mesh to Tracker provides artists with a fast and predictable method for attaching 3D assets to motion data. Artists can easily connect meshes to a tracked point in a few clicks within the UI-based viewport. The feature simplifies object layout and reference workflows by eliminating time-consuming manual setups and scripting.
Mask ML’s instant AI mask creation receives a boost with a new mask dilation setting that gives artists finer control over mask behavior, reducing cleanups and improving results. Artists can expand mask edges to include soft edges, motion blur, and hair, or prevent trackers from drifting onto unwanted edge detail.
Other improvements include automatic orientation handling on video files with rotation metadata (TIFF, PNG, JPEG, ProRes), a dedicated LUTs folder, and Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K 65 support.
Pricing
SynthEyes is a standalone application with subscription, perpetual, and upgrade & support renewal options. Prices start at $325/year or $62/month. See webshop for details.
Customers with active SynthEyes or Boris FX Suite subscriptions or upgrade & support plans receive the 2025.5 product release as a complimentary update. Learn more about SynthEyes.
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