Bugga_Guy

I have a potential animation where the client has footage of a fly around in a helicopter and they want to superimpose a 3d model into the footage. I have never done this before and was wondering if anyone knows software for this kind of thing.. I heard there was this program called bioujou(sp?) but never used it. I need some thing easy to learn as I will have a sort turnaround. Any help would be great.

mbr

It's relatively easy to learn, from what I've seen, but the 'cheap' version comes in at $3000, so make sure your client has the budget.

wda

Boujou or Match Mover Pro by real viz are the way to go. Boujou's automated matching is very good and easy, you can get decent results possible within a day or so of working with it-camera match slip can be tricky to overcome, though. Match Mover Pro is not far behind, though. Even at 3k US, by the time you figure out how do do it Max for example.... how much is your time worth????????


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derijones

Have a look at Digit Magazine (www.digitmag.co.uk) (I should be on commsion!) - they did a review of matchmoving software this month (issue 86) - including matchmover, Boujou and PF Match (expensive - £2000+!) they also looked at some of the cheaper options - PF Hoe (£79!!!) - the conclusion was that if you have simple, clean footage with obvious features, then the cheapo options were fine, but lacked the manual adjustment of the higher end ones. Never used any of them, so further than that can't help.

Hope it helps
Deri

abicalho

3dsmax has a camera tracker built in, which is camera match for animation. Just run through the tutorials and you'll see one on how to use it.

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v_wrangler

I have done nothing decent with max's built in but I would recommend you try syntheyes at less than $400 a pop... do you mind if I take a look at the plates?

pipjor

I've used SynthEyes, it's alot cheaper and easy/fun to use.

alkis t.

synth eyes is the way to go
i ve just completed around 10 complicated aerial shots with it with no problem
its also much faster than boujou bullet and quite versatile since you can do supervised tracking as well (or combined)
allow yourself a day or two though to get to grips with it before using it for production
support is also very good
regards
alkis

Maxer

I think it would be crazy for you to use anything but the camera tracker especially if you’re only going to be doing this for one project. A few years ago I had a project where we purchase Match Mover from Realviz, it was an older version but it cost us $2000. It was extremely hard to use, and the tutorials were very complicated. I eventually got it to work but it took a while of messing with it. Max 7 comes with this camera tracking utility as well as the tutorials and in about 3 hours I had done the tutorials and successfully completed a small camera tracking video I shot my self. In my opinion the Max camera tracker is much easier and faster to use than Match Mover which I'm pretty sure you can only rent it now for 30 days for about $2000. The full version was about $10,000 last time I looked, and I'm pretty sure that bioujou is going to be similar in price. The only thing these two programs do that Max can it automatic point tracking. Don't be fooled this isn't a fool proof process and you will still probably have to manually adjust the tracking anyway.

omar

you will likely encounter another problem beside matching and that,s
a shakey photage ..... it might ruin the whole project
so consider stedey cam pluging from 23d there,s a demo that ships with preimere pro
good luck