[Robert Mcgowan]

Hi brent and Alex, many thanks for the input –
Brent I tries your suggested work around, however, maybe I’m missing something, adding a duplicated track does not seem to effect the scene when the light is completely obscured by an object.
I did try several options in the lighting setup but to no avail. Maybe again i’m doing something wrong
Yes, your right this should definitely be built into the next version as it would give that additional realism effect.

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[Robert Mcgowan]

thanks edward
think this would be a good option to have on PROANim 8 as it can be really painful to mouse over each swatch and wait for the info to appear

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[Robert Mcgowan]

thanks edward

[Robert Mcgowan]

Hi Brent
thats a great piece of tracking , very smooth!
Do you wanna do a tutorial on it ?

My film should be public now, yes please take a look and let me know your thoughts

Thanks
Robert

[Robert Mcgowan]

Brent, Edward

https://youtu.be/vUab7-NiyOk

I have uploaded a video explaining my problems with PA and Camera trackers
I’d like to hear from you if you have any answers to the film, what am I doing wrong, why doesn’t PA track integrate well with AE…

best robert

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[Robert Mcgowan]

Hi Brent thank you for the information very useful!

however my other problem was when I create the camera and solid, the solid tends to be the size of the target, thus when you attach this to PA the text is very small on screen, increasing the null size is not a satisfactory solution, and increasing the object or Text doesn’t have the required effect.

I have just done a experiment with my footage, camera tracked and made both a camera and null and solid.

with the null selected for the tracker in AE, then switching to PA, I make sure I select the external tracker.
However I am still not getting a good line up with the PA render and the AE screen, its very hard to get a correct orientation of the 3D object except on the first fame, it would be a great addition for PA to update with the current frame in AE.

I have tried this on several clip files and never really got a satisfactory sync.
Any further advice would be great.

I will persevere as PA is such a great piece of software, but the tracking is letting me down a bit.

I have also tried pulling in a MOCHA 3D camera with various nulls attached and again have had trouble syncing the PA TEXT/OBJECTs with the AE timeline… very frustrating, I wondered if Zaxwerks could provide a video tutorial on the best method, I’m sure others would be very interested and certainly extends PA’s versatility.
Best
Robert

[Robert Mcgowan]

thanks for the info Brett

I am now trying to line up my text with the background image, however after moving the object in PA
I go back to AE and the location has changed, is there an easy method of doing this ?

is it best to keep the objects at 0,0 etc…

thanks

[Robert Mcgowan]

thanks for the feedback Edward.
However I just want to display the refection and shadow, as the glass table is real live video (in my garden at home) and not 3D.
So I have motion tracked the table with the 3D camera tracker and now wish to add a text or object to the scene.

I know that I could use a floor layer as a shadow catcher which displays the shadow of the object, but how do I display the reflection as well ?

many thanks

[Robert Mcgowan]

thanks for the feedback Edward

please tell me which video/graphic cards you are using, which works the best and has fastest rendering as I thinking about getting a CUDA based card.

thanks

robert

[Robert Mcgowan]

If anybody is still having problems with this spatial conforming issue
I have a work round –

I like working in a 720p timeline and use a lot of 1080p footage so it’s always great to be able to crop in and not loose any quality —

I have noticed that linked clips (above story line) don’t seem to have problems with the conform issue and if you go to the inspector and spatial conform selecting ‘none’ allows you to zoom in 100% no quality loss

However
I don’t seem to be able to do this on clips in the main storyline track –

So if you select the clip you want and then select Clip – Open in Timeline from the top menu
This will open another timeline you can select the clip again and apply ‘none’ to the spatial conform in the inspector menu –

Then go back to the edit time line you have been working in, by clicking the backwards arrow or just selecting the project again, you then then go back to the clip and apply which ever crop zoom you wish to apply –

It’s a pain in the ass, but it works, it would be a nightmare on a large project!
I hope that this eventually gets a fix and you can apply is easily as you can to a linked clip —