[Sney Noorani]

Stephen, thanks for the link to the video about tracking markers. I’m basically breaking out of the editors chair and getting my hands messy with production, so understanding how to set up studios for vfx is super useful.

Also FYI I did actually get this track to work using AE’s 3D Camera Tracker which was odd because I don’t think I varied my technique too much from before I posted, but it seemed to work later on.

Angie, my fellow Brit (I live in California though), thanks for your pointers.

In this world of ever shrinking production/post budgets, your notion of a motion control rig is giggle inducing. – I work in a small town, so sadly I have champagne ambition on beer budget, much like many of my clients here. No motion control rig, and frankly I’m glad to swing a green screen studio and dolly… and I’m counting on as much wizardry as I can muster to close the gaps between what clients are willing to pay for and what i want my work to look like.

This problem is solved for the moment, though if anyone wants to post more advice on tracking I’m very open to learning more.

Thanks for playing!

[Sney Noorani]

I’m working with 5K RED footage, the crushed version is just for people in this forum to review, though if you want to have a go, I can upload a high quality version to my dropbox.

The 3d camera tracker in AE was first thrown off by foreground subject, so I garbage masked him out. Still no dice.

I tried mocha, using the trackers on one wall and then the other as the search areas I looped around 3 or 4 trackers depending on which side I was trying, no consistent lock. probably because there’s not enough texture detail as the greenscreen is bland as it should be but mocha work better with obvious planes and textures.

I was hoping Mocha could get that the tracking markers were on the same plane despite not being a rectangle (this is picking either wall to the right or rear of subject – I’m not trying to track both walls at the same time)

I tried an unlocked track as well and that started to behave better for some sections, but that technique is not giving me a consistent result.

I also keyed the footage just leaving a black and white matte with the markers being left as the only objects in ‘black space’ hoping the blunt contrast might make tracking easier (I’m trying to track the screen matte effectively) again, some sections work, but not all

[Sney Noorani]

try getting fresh drivers from Wacom, I heard it was resolved like that on another thread on this subject

[Sney Noorani]

thank you! it’s perfect.

[Sney Noorani]

holy crap, you’re right this does improve the issue greatly….yet fills me with even more scorn for Premier… I use it, but I loathe it…

[Sney Noorani]

while it’s not the biggest burden to switch to the bar of soap (mouse), it interrupts your flow, which can be irritating especially when you’re just trying to bust through a lot of repetitive tasks quickly and your device is being inaccurate and slowing you down.

I hate fighting with the tools, there should be no reason to given that the tools are hardly new… is this the wrong place to add I’d like a nice big timecode window in Premier like Avid has had for years…? not to mention being able to see absolute time in the source monitors instead of only source timecode (again Avid had this locked down forever ago)

[Sney Noorani]

thank you sir! shame I’m not using cc :/

[Sney Noorani]

hey there,

I’d just like to report exactly the same complaint as the others have experienced. I use an Intuos 2 (had it for years!) to edit and do… well everything with (FCP, Avid, 3dsMAX, After Effects, Photoshop you name it) and in Premiere CS6 it’s finicky. The rubber band issue is particularly annoying because the pen usually excels at precisely controlling bezier handles etc, I also happen to use a mouse in the other hand, so I can switch on the fly, but it’s annoying and the bug shouldn’t be there.

I’m glad there’s an ongoing discussion of this bug, hopefully it’ll bring resolution sooner.

Or perhaps I can just fast forward to the future where I can use a pair of trackpads, one for each hand 😉

[Sney Noorani]

thank you so much! I’ve been wanting a keystroke for time-reverse keyframes forever!

however I want to know how you worked out the command to put in? “TimeReverseKeyrames” it’s an addition to the hotkey list, not a modification, so how did you work out the exact syntax?

cheers!

[Sney Noorani]

hey Walter,

regarding dropping video to timeline minus audio. (I taught myself avid originally, so my terminology may hark back to that)

I’m familiar with switching off the patch source buttons on the timeline (breaking away A1 + A2 etc before doing the drag to timeline). However I was hoping there might be a keystroke shortcut that I could hold down while I drag to achieve the same effect (i.e. drag video only or audio only when the key is held down and I’m dragging from viewer to timeline, or from viewer to the canvas window dropzone).

It would be handy if this existed as it’s irritating to have to look to the timeline, click off each individual audio patch (at least on avid they were brightly coloured and you could just run your mouse down them and they would all switch off with one swipe). Apple’s interface is blander, and you’re forced to click each individual channel (crappier if you’re working with formats that have 4 tracks of audio).

cheers

Sney /