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PFHoe & AE
Anyone using PFHoe (little brother of PFTrack and PFMatch ?) ?
I would like to know how do you fine use PFHoe’s data in AE…
I have tracked some dolly-in shots (camera is rolling forward, no zoom). For this shot, only the portion where the actors are standibg has been constructed, i want to replace the misssig pations of the set with some photoshop layers.
How do you fine place thoses layers in 3D space ? if i try to copy to them the geometrical values of tracking nulls, it takes me hours to find the correct position….
I think i really need help on how to use PFHoe data in AE…. efficiently…!
Thanks
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1) Track your footage in PFhoe and then apply the tracked camera data to a camera in your AE comp.
2)On the first frame of the footage in the AE comp add a layer and use AE paint or import your PSD file and line it up with your background footage. 3)Make the painted layer a 3D layer (the source footage should not be a 3D layer).
4)Play back and your painted layer should track the camera movements of the background.
PFhoe is very similar to the original Icarus software that PFtrack was designed from. It is very powerful and very accurate and, once you get the hang of it, really easy to use.
Good luck,
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Thanx…
It’s basically my workflow.
My only problem is fo lining up my PSD file with the tracked video. I have a very hard time to do this…
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[Encheval] “Anyone using PFHoe (little brother of PFTrack and PFMatch ?) ? “
Sorry for missing this post until now.
PFHoe is my current favorite software. I am almost finished writing a little tutorial for PFH and AE. Keeping it from being ready for primetime are some missing movie graphics (I wanted to shoot a few shots that really illustrate some key points, but haven’t had a chance to shoot yet). Apart from these missing graphics, there’s some useful information. If I see some interest expressed here I’ll quickly publish the site (albeit with graphics missing) and hurry up with the final pretty pictures.
-crg
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Yes i would love to read this tutorial !
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I think this will help; it’s just not as pretty as it should (will) be.
Feel free to let me know what you think.-CG
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I’d love to read the PFhoe tut, but can’t find it. is it still up?
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Man i wish this link worked. I could really use it right now.
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