Syntheyes and After Effects

[Lars Bunch]

Hi,

It sound like you need to use the image processing feature in Syntheyes to do your stabilization. Once you have tracked your shot, and have made sure you don’t have any trackers that have gone haywire, hit the “p” key and that will open the image processing window.

Select the Stabilize tab and you will probably want to set Translation and Rotation to filter. Cut Freq. affects how much smoothing is done.

Then select the output tab and save it as a quicktime or a file sequence. I believe you then have to hit the Apply to Trackers button to make sure the trackers in your camera data reflect the newly stabilized footage rather than the original footage. You will then need to export a new .ma file for importing into AE.

The stabilized footage and the .ma file should match and you can then use those trackers to lock object to your ground plane.

Hope this helps,

Lars

[Lars Bunch]

Hi,

It sound like you need to use the image processing feature in Syntheyes to do your stabilization. Once you have tracked your shot, and have made sure you don’t have any trackers that have gone haywire, hit the “p” key and that will open the image processing window.

Select the Stabilize tab and you will probably want to set Translation and Rotation to filter. Cut Freq. affects how much smoothing is done.

Then select the output tab and save it as a quicktime or a file sequence. I believe you then have to hit the Apply to Trackers button to make sure the trackers in your camera data reflect the newly stabilized footage rather than the original footage. You will then need to export a new .ma file for importing into AE.

The stabilized footage and the .ma file should match and you can then use those trackers to lock object to your ground plane.

Hope this helps,

Lars

[Skylar Weeks]

I have used SynthEyes to stabilize an aerial video taken from quadricopter. I exported the 3-D info from Syntheyes as a .ma (Maya) file. I then imported the .ma file into AE, re-imported the original footage, interpreted the original footage to make sure the frame rate and pixel aspect are correct, then dragged the original footage onto the top layer.

According to the Syntheyes instructions, this is all I have to do, but the shot is not stabilized in AE. What I have is the original footage layer, then 180 null 3-D layers with the tracking info, and a camera layer.

How do I get the original footage layer to pickup the null layers below with the tracker data to stabilize the shot?

I have already viewed all of the the tutorials available on the SynthEyes site and I have not found any answers or help…. Thank you!