The “PFhoe-ly Cow!” Matchmoving Contest

The “PFhoe-ly Cow!” Matchmoving Contest

on Apr 4th 2011 with 64 comments

It’s time again for another super stellar Aetuts+ Contest!. We’re teaming up with Pixel Farm to give you a chance to show use your best move…. your best “match move”. Here’s the deal, we’re going to give you a shot, tracked with PFhoe Pro and all ready to go. It’s your job to take it to the next level! You don’t need PFhoe to participate, check it out!

Step 1

Download 3d Tracked Shot

File size: 56.5 MB

Step 2

Add whatever elements you want to it… have fun, no limitations!

Step 3

Upload Your result to Youtube or Vimeo.

Step 4

Fill out this form and submit your result!

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Contest Specifics:

YOU have to be the one to put elements into the shot, feel free to use 3d models or any stock content you own the rights to. Here’s the Aetuts+ Logo if you want to use it. The contest deadline is May 6th at midnight. You can submit as many entries as you like, but if it’s just a slight variation of the same thing, please don’t send me practical duplicates… I don’t care if “the color is slightly different in this one”. I’ll just pick the better one for voting.

Once all the entries are in, I’ll post them for you to vote on.

The Prizes:

Adam Everett Miller is everettoptions on Videohive
 
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  • http://shuvravfx.tumblr.com/ Shuvra

    One of the Greatest contest in AETuts+ , Thanks Adam , waiting for the form !!!!

  • Thomas

    Hi Adam,

    I know the tut has a different purpose, but I am dying to know how you make these “frosen 3d” shots where you fly around a scene frozen in time. Using a lot of cameras springs to mind, but maybe there is a trick to this?

    Maybe a future tutorial? :)

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      I could do a quicktip probably in the next couple weeks… it was a fun little test project…. :)

      • Chris

        Please dude.

      • Thomas

        You would make my day – I’ve been looking for this :)

      • Karim Duncan

        That frozen thing Tip will be highly appreciate Mr. Miller

      • Tulaga Whitcombe

        Who cares about the contest… how the heck did you do the shot???
        WE ALL WANNA KNOW!

      • Ben

        Yes please!

      • http://youtube.com/BoogieIAm BoogieMan

        Where’s the quick tip ??? :D

      • Joe

        Yes please, I’ve been wanting to create this effect for a long time, just couldn’t find anyone to show me how.

      • http://youtube.com/crownimperialmusic Yusef Lateef

        Cant wait for the tut! I think its been a little more than a few weeks!

    • Kyle

      hi. i might be 14 but i might have a way of doing this. You can try to take the footage without the people in there. then do a video where that person gets frozen [you might want to get a picture out of the footage (and Photoshop it to get the transparency)]. Track the footage and then just put the picture in the footage where it stands. any i’m not very good with AE. but you can experiment with what i have given you. cheers

      • Kyle

        one more thing. the method only gives your a 3d view of the body. aka one view of the body

  • anxs220

    Gonna submit!

  • conna

    Hi Adam,
    it was a fun little test project ? Are you kidding ?
    This is Exceptional.
    I really can’t wait for this tutorial.
    By the way, great contest .Congrs

  • Tony

    When’s the deadline?

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      It’s down in the description. mid May

  • Karim Duncan

    I downloaded the video clip but I’m having troubles with it, difficult to play, when I import in After Effects all I see is white blank video, any help please!

  • anxs220

    please reload the .mov file,

    its too heavy compressed for my low pc, I cant even convert it !

    = 0

  • jink

    I wonder how many people will track it in boujou :D

  • Karim Duncan

    How about jpeg sequence maybe that might work for some of us Because that .mov file is too heavy

  • adam

    Yeah I can’t get the .mov to even play back in quicktime player, after effects or C4d. Can we get a different version? THanks great contest

  • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
    Author

    Hey, I’m gonna upload an image sequence here in a bit… hopefully that will help!

    • Karim Duncan

      Image sequence will be better, thanks looking forward to the update link

  • Gary

    this looks awesome, btw whats the name of this song?

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      the song is by Hecq… they do really techie stuff… perfect for glitchy reels and animations and such.

      • Gary

        ohhh thankyou very much, i appreciate it :)

        its called Hecq- Steeltongued :)

  • Stan

    i have been looking how to do this effect for many months but i cant seem to find any good tutorials on it :/ i would really appreciate a tutorial on this time-freeze effect or a short overview please :)

    • http://www.ardillamedia.com Anders Hattne

      My guess is shooting the video with people standing still putting in things to support them, like wires or pillars and roto them out afterwards. That or having a ton of cameras available..

  • http://www.ben.getreelstudio.com Ben Henry

    I have been looking for a contest giving away PFTrack now, and finally, I found it!

  • Wiick

    Hey, have been looking for that new image sequence upload. The .mov is not working. Any idea on when this will be uploaded?

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      I already have uploaded the image sequence… it’s in the download.

      • Karim Duncan

        Thanks for the image sequence I think that will work and I hope the frame rate of the sequence is the same as that of tracking data.

        I will try it out and submit it!

      • http://badashahfx.weebly.com saad

        cant download. its says its 620MB. anybody have this problem?

  • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
    Author

    Here you go guys… I recorded a quick walk through of how to load the footage….

    http://screencast.com/t/KTRtHIz5

    • Karim Duncan

      That was helpfull , thanks

    • http://www.youtube.com.badashahfx saad

      really helpful :) thanks

    • Calinu

      Hello:) Great contest. I have a question…does the final video need to be the same length as the footage you provided? The footage is about 720 frames. Would it be ok if i made the video with only 420?

      • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
        Author

        That’d be fine.

  • Bullett

    I know a couple of other people have mentioned this before, and help has been provided, but I’m still having trouble getting the tracking to match up with the footage…

    I’ve tried the Time-Remapping trick Adam shared above, and I’ve also tried to ‘Interpret footage’ on the image sequence to match the tracking comp’s 24fps. Both cause the image sequence to match the tracked comp duration (0:00:30:20), but the tracking markers don’t match up with the footage – they jump around quite a bit, quite obviously as you move frame by frame. I’ve made sure the image sequence starts at the very start of the comp, but it still doesn’t match.

    Is there anything else anyone can suggest I try?

  • illd

    Great idea for a contest. Unluckily the Tracking data is incorrect somehow. The Track inside C4d has several spikes which can be deleted manually but the track itself is slipping more and more towards the end. Which framerate has the original footage, 24 Fps or 23,976fps?

  • http://youtube.com/user/atomicmonkeypro JaydenB

    @illd yes the file IS now 620mb, but i still downloaded it anyway to submit :P

  • stephen

    Hey Adam,

    The cinema 4D file has some random jerky movements, so I’m looking to re-track and export again. Could you provide some details on the camera to make it a bit easier (sensor size, focal length etc).

    Thanks,
    Stephen.

    • illd

      same problem here – if we had some data of the camera it would be much easier to use this footage

    • http://www.pfhoe.com/ Paula

      Hi Stephen, please try the Lightwave file format, this will fix the problem.

      • stephen

        Hi Paula,

        Thanks for the info, but I fear I’ve left it a bit too late now. Never mind, next time…

        Stephen.

  • Daniel Reinoso

    Hi Adam

    I would like to use a photo of your head and put it on a wanter poster, to put it in the video. Can i do it?

  • Bobo

    To bad that the 3d track dosent seem to be very accurate, alot of helpers are just a mess and in wrong places.

  • http://www.pfhoe.com Paula

    There has been a problem reported in the PFhoe forum with using the C4D export and as a temporary solution users are asked to use the LightWave file export. This will fix any issues you are experiencing using the tracking data in C4D.

  • rajesh

    wts is final date?
    pls help

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      read the post. May 6th at midnight.

      • Simon

        Hi,
        Which Timezone/Wolrdtime is the deadline? :)

        Best

      • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
        Author

        Eastern Standard

  • Daniel Reinoso

    The Prizes are only for the 1st Place?

  • Simon

    ok, sorry, for asking again, but am not shure how you are telling the time in your place and translating it into my time is even more confusing. To be absolutely shure: From now on we have 17 hours and 20 minutes left, right? :)
    Sorry, just started and need every minute i got ;)

    Best

    • Luke

      I’m also still thinking about this – do we have full Friday, and it ends together with Friday? Then we would still have more than 24 hours.
      The problem is some people assume that at midnight means AFTER the given day, some think it is when the day starts. I hope the first one is true here, meaning – we have to finish before May 6th ends (Friday/Saturday night).

      I’m at work all Friday so I could use some extra time in the evening to finish things off.

      Cheers.

  • Luke

    Hi,
    I visit AE tuts from time to time, but I missed the info about the competition :/ I’ve started yesterday, I’m cutting on sleep to meet the deadline and here’s my question, just to make sure: the deadline is Friday night, right? But which timezone exactly? I’m from Europe, my timezone is GMT+1, so right now it’s 12:10 p.m.
    New York is GMT-5, so it’s 6:10 a.m. at the moment.
    So if you mean New York time my deadline, in my timezone, is Saturday 6 a.m. right? I have to work all day today and tomorrow, so I’m going crazy here ;)

    Great competition by the way,

    Cheers.

  • http://www.vimeo.com/apaczos ApaczoS

    Holy crap! I forgot about the time differences…In that case I have 6h bonus, nice:)

    • Luke

      I’m glad I could help by asking those questions ;)
      So, if you take for example France, Germany or Poland – the deadline is Saturday, May 7th at 6 a.m.?
      If AE Tuts is based in California it would be 8 a.m. then! What timezone are we talking here?

      Thanks for a reply.

      • Luke

        Oh, I’ve just noticed this post:

        “Adam Everett Miller says:
        May 5, 2011 at 12:37 am
        Author

        Eastern Standard”

        It’s clear then, thanks!

      • Simon

        so is it including or excluding friday?

      • Duncan

        No! “May 5, 2011 at 12:37 am” is the time Adam Everett Miller posted his last entry, not the ending time.

  • wach

    hey adam, where is the ‘small tip’ for the video you made, or perhaps a tutorial on how you did it? i’m sure everyone would be so grateful of it :D

  • wach

    @Adam Everett Miller tutorial on the video you made above please! i’m sure you’ll make everyone happy, including me! :D