Advice for set extending/Adding close Buildings

[Ty Yachaina]

Wow,

Thanks Shawn, I’ll check out those links. I’m comfterable with everything 2d, I really have to brush up on 3d material from modeling, texturing, lighting, you name it. I’ll have to use Blender due to our remaining budget….

Yeah, Keylight has done amazing things for me in the past with 4:2:2 cameras. I dont doubt its power. Compositing has never been my strong suite, but no way to get better than without some practice. Time to level up.

[Michael Szalapski]

I’ve actually gotten decent results out of HDV with a lot of attention paid to lighting, but it wasn’t easy. 4:2:2 will be worlds better than that, but imagine the fun of a Red. 🙂

– The Great Szalam
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[Ty Yachaina]

Hey, we may have it in budget to get a red, I would love the option…

Quick question, Is Mocha good for the kind of tracking needed for this? I havent used it, yet all the tutorials seem to be about screen replacing and exporting the data as corner pin data, but can the data actually be exported as position, rotation, and scale data that after effects can attach to a null object?

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Yes- Mocha is designed to work with AE. The new version is best, of course and CS5 works with it.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania

[Mike Zimbard]

Mocha is a terrific package, but just keep in mind that it’s not match-moving software. It can track perspective, scale, and rotation, but will not solve for a camera. So if you’re looking for true 3D tracking on a budget you’re better off going with Syntheyes, PfHoe or The Foundry’s new CameraTracker which plugs right into CS5!