Your First Day in PFTrack
Throughout these lessons we'll take our first steps in PFTrack. Software required: PFTrack 13.4, Maya 2014, Nuke 7.
What you'll learn
Throughout these lessons we'll take our first steps in PFTrack. We will go over PFTrack's user interface as well as learn how to tackle common shots such as a distorted hand-held footage and a nodal-pan shot. Once you get familiarized with these techniques, you will be able to take your matchmoving skills to the next level. These techniques will greatly improve your abilities as a matchmover. Software required: PFTrack 13.4, Maya 2014, Nuke 7.
Table of contents
- First Look into PFTrack 5m
- Accessing PFTrack's Preferences 7m
- Using the Media Admin Menu 9m
- Tracking Footage Manually and Automatically 10m
- Solving the 3D Camera 9m
- Orienting Our Scene and Test Objects 8m
- Exporting Our 3D Scene to Maya 7m
- Preparing Our 3D Scene for Set Fitting 6m
- Set-fitting the Exported Camera 7m
- Tracking and Solving a Nodal-pan Shot 7m
- Set-fitting the Nodal Pan Shot 10m
- Testing Our Final Result 9m
About the author
Michael Raphaelovich is a Matchmove artist, Visual Effects compositor and a film editor. Right after his graduation with a masters degree at the end of 2007, he found work as a compositor in Burbank, California. Among the Commercials he worked on, he also was a junior compositor on the 2008 Movie “Red Sands” and on the TV show “The Middleman”. After getting back to the San Francisco Bay Area, he continued to work as a film editor, VFX matchmover, and a compositor on various projects and independ... more