Basic Match Moving with PFhoe – Day 1

on Dec 21st 2009 with 40 comments
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This entry is part 10 of 12 in the The Complete Introduction to Motion Trackers Session
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You may know how to Bust a Move, but the real question is can you Match a Move? In Day 1 of this two part tutorial we’re gonna start by looking over the interface of PFhoe and explain how to get a basic Match Move. From there we’ll bring the camera solve into AE to see what we can do with it. Day 2 we’ll head over into Illustrator and 3ds Max to generate an extruded logo and finally bring it all back into AE for the final composite.

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Adam Everett Miller is everettoptions on Videohive
 
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  • Playeur

    Very nice

  • Jose

    nice!

  • eman

    Great tut indeed but please reduce the size of it. I am begging you. 420mb?
    Some of us live in unfortunate countries that download limits per month. please consider next time! Thanks

  • http://www.youtube.com.br/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    Really usefull!
    Great Tut man!

  • http://www.behance.net/BadGhost Bad Ghost

    Nice one i love it :)

  • Loay Emad

    Very large tutorial
    but I’ll download it. I hope it’s useful

  • http://www.blackbluebrown.com geoff brown

    sick!!!

  • Matt

    Sweet another must know technique :)
    thanks for the effort !

  • Jordan Taylor

    great great stuff! been tryn to understand how to create this kinda of tracking thank you! cant wait for part 2! : )

  • Richard Williams

    Nicely done, Adam! Pfhoe is a great low cost solution for those wanting to add match moving to their repertoire.

  • Nittifix

    Your renders really sucks, why are they so flickery

    • Fred

      cuz your computer probably sucks

      • Nittifix

        Sure, so the quality of a video is based on the viewers computer? Ever heard about bad renders?

  • http://joeflashedme.com/blog Joe Horan

    So often do I see this effect gone wrong. This was VERY well done and very professional! Hats off!

  • -J-

    Are you using PFHoe or PFHoe Pro?

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

      This I am using PFhoe Pro, but I’m pretty sure everything I did in this tut could be done with PFhoe as well… you’ll have to check the website to make sure: http://www.pfhoe.com but I think the Pro version allows for more exporting to additional software choices.

  • mark

    wats d difference of pf hoe and pf track?

    • Matt

      pfthoe doesn’t do certain formats. pftrack has a lot of advanced tweaking.

  • http://www.twitter.com/explrcre8 samBrown

    awesome tut – looking forward to part 2 and the 3dsMax integreation

  • http://danielbroadway.blogspot.com Daniel Broadway

    Fantastic Tutorial. Thank you so much for this. I’ve been trying to learn 3d camera tracking myself, and there’s not much info out there about it.

  • http://www.sternfx.com Eran Stern

    Thanks for the credit Adam, You’ve created a terrific tutorial. Good job on the attention to all the details of PFHoe Pro. Way to track man :-)

  • http://rafaelbraga.com Rafael Braga

    pretty cool. I liked a lot.

  • http://youtube.com/user/CSKforlifeee Austin

    WOW!!… THANKS YOU SOOO MUCH!!

  • http://donotpresstheredbutton.blogspot.com/ Carlos Batlló

    Very useful. Lots of thanks.

  • Willem

    This is something i’ve been wanting to try for a long time, so this tutorial comes in very handy!

    Thanks man, and great examples.

  • Muhammad Tariq

    Thanks!

  • http://www.benmcewan.com Ben McEwan

    Pretty cool mate! With your masking though, couldn’t you have just created a new 3D solid, moved it to where the pole should be, and mask it once? Then you would probably only need a couple keyframes for the slight perspective shift.

    You could then use that layer as an alpha inverted matte for your particles. Just a thought ;)

  • Roy42

    I’m gonna guess that the file size is a result of the real life footage of you talking, right?

    Anyway, this tutorial was great, and the end result and techniques are definitely something I’d look forward to using.

    Regards,

    ≈Roy

  • Eric Kristin

    Very Good! excelente. tank´s boy.
    Venho apredendo muito com os tutoriais,
    Agradeço a todos pelo trabalho.

  • Jan V

    Actually you SHOULD shoot a lens distortion grid before every matchmoving shot you shoot. At least every time you change the focal length of the lens.

  • Juan E B

    Great tut, just one question, how did you export that mask you built in AE? Is it just a movie file(AVI, Quicktime?) and Pfhoe reads it as a mask or is it a specific render type?

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

      Yeah, I just created a white solid, then dropped the opacity to 0 and began keyframing my mask with the movement of my subject. When it was all done, I brought the white solids opacity back up to 100 to see this new shape that was over the action I wanted to mask, then I just created another black solid and dropped it behind the white one.. you could also use Generate:Fill on your footage. Then render out like a normal video. PF hoe will view it as a matte.

  • Shun

    what a different with PFtrack ?

  • Potsie

    huge but useful. thanks

  • http://freizeitlich.de Sven

    hahaaaa :) Peter Fox

  • http://www.youtube.com/wrenthereaper Wren Weichman

    few people have the charisma it takes to make a good and interesting tutorial. Mr. Kramer is one of those people, and i believe now that Mr. Miller is also in that crowd. keep the tutorials up, theyre very good.

  • Vickie

    I can’t get it to inport. When I go to the load footage it won’t inport. Any idea what the problem could be?
    Thanks

  • AntoxaGray

    I have sometimes null objects jumping / not matching perfectly; how do I fix that?

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

      A null is created from each of your tracker points, so if you have a faulty tracker point, it’ll create a jittery null… go back to PFhoe and delete that point and reanalyze.

  • Tony

    Where are the demo files located so i can practice this effect?
    Thanks