Camera Tracking Tutorial (Boujou Free Move)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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There are many programs that can do camera tracking, and the same basic fundamentals apply to all of them. In this video, however, Niko shows you how to get a flawless camera track in Boujou!
I'm still returning to this video ... even in 2020
Samsiessss
Yep
Me too
Almost like we all kinda care about vfx
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Nahhhhhh
2021
Don't really care about the subject of the video, I don't make movies, but really appreciate the fact that you put the effort in to educate your audience. Thumbs up for the information and the kitty.
Did anyone else notice the cat falling off the table at around 10:08 xD
+TheUltimateGamingLegend I had to go check the comments the moment I saw it to see if anyone else saw.
+Bob The Skateboard hahahaha me too
Nice job on the tool and ability to abstract the methodology of motion tracking. I've been playing around with VooCAT and find it fairly intuitive plus powerful. Has a great tool set similar to Boujou that you demonstrate in this video.
For those looking for a motion tracking app, even though it might not be quite as powerful in some area's, it's price tag for a commercial version might be just what your looking for.
I can't wait for more of these tutorial video's from you guys!
I'm going out on a crazy limb here because I never dealt with a shot like this , however I believe depending on the shot you will either be ok or need some manual tracks to fill in the gaps like Niko's talking about.
Niko has a fantastic explaining voice.
Very clear and helpful tutorial. I hope to see more of them. Thank you. Love the cat zooming along the floor.
I finally get why I have so much issue with objects drifting. Thanks a million man. great tutorial. I really appreciate it.
this so much much much better then all the other boujou tutorials! Thx
if only CorridorDigital was giving visual effects classes...I would totally pay for it!
When the cat falls off the table :) o.O
holy.... BOUJOU IS $10,000.00
get it for free from torrents dude
and it probably works worse than adobe after effects 3d camera tracker lel....
***** dude.. i commented on this last year..
***** it doesn't.
Qnoops ello
One of the best tuts ever seen !!
Honestly I have no clue, I always prefer the lazy option of "let's just throw stuff here" because I know it works :D
They probably did the models with simple planes and boxes in 3DSMax after having exported the solve.
Depends on the shot
Hmmmm, how many comments did you wrote?
Select one of your nulls on the ground, press p for position , copy and paste the data into the position of your object. Press r for rotation and paste that data into the object aswell. Done.
boujou will be able to track any shot as long as its rectilinear, aka the straight lines arent curvy like the gopro's fisheye. All you have to do is undistort the fisheye shots, which you can do in after effects with the "lens correction" filter.
YOU SIR JUST SAVE MY LIFE AND MY SHOT WITH THIS ONE!!! HOLLY AMAZEING PROGRAM IT IS BOUJOU!!!
TNX FOR THIS CRASH COURS 101!!! REALLY YOU DONT KNOW HOW HAPPY I AM!!!
Did you pay 10000$?
Hardisk answering questions like a boss.
Loving the hair, Niko.
Quick answer : Ambiant Occlusion, Global Illumination and an HDRI sky !
Fo'sho hommies ! Keep the nice work up , cool and refreshing :)
Wow! This comment is 7 years ago!?!
I really really needed this. Thanks guys.
Great tutorial! You should make on on what you do with these points once you bring them into a program such as 3ds max as in like build the scene or what ever other voodoo magic you do to make your videos so good.
I just went outside to film some footage, now I am gonna learn how to track it! Let's do this!
i loved learning this, althoug i am probably never going to put this knowledge to use, ever.
i think he forgot to mention this program costs 10 thousand dollars... am I looking it up wrong?! I'm sure most of the commenters pirated it..
ROTO is so CUTE!! great name too! perfect fit for you guys
niko ... old video but really good information for new matchmovers
Cat + Corridor Digital = SuperUltraViral video!
You can use Blender. It's free and can do motion-tracking as well.
I believe it does but never had to deal with such shots.
Well YOU delivered.
freddiew...We're still waiting for Day 12
10:02 thought the cat will mess erything up ... kinda feel disapointed it doesn't happen haha thank you soooo much for that awsome and verry clear explanation it helped a lot and i love your work corridor you're the best on what yoi're doing
Still one of the best tracking Boujou tracking tuts out there :D THX for this :D I hope you or someone will answer me this question: I need to track a small plastic gun in my hand as the camera moves around me so that I can replace that plastic gun with a 3D model of a gun. How can I do this, can Boujou do that for me?
Cool THX so far i was not able to solve this tracking problem of mine so I decided to use still images for this project but I will try your advice :D THX :D
That would be long for them to make, have you checked UA-cam tutorials for your 3D application? There is already all the info needed out there, while in - depth Boujou tutorials were pretty rare.
Boujou is better at handling JPEG sequences for reasons nobody knows. It will affect quality however this doesn't matter since the JPEG footage is only use for reference. When you export your 3D models out of your 3D program and put them back into your edit, you're still rendering the final movie with your original rush ;)
Thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial! Learning from you guys is like a privilege!
Please make some 3ds Max tutorials next!
Thumbs up so the they can see!
Just found this and it tracked my impossible shot perfectly. Then I learned I can't save my solve with the demo, and apparently Boujou doesn't exist anymore because I can't visit the link to view licenses.....super bummed.
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Doesn't exist ?
Walking forward and backward is free move, zooming is when your focal length changes
Awesome!!! I like your tutorial!!! its fun! and very informative!!! More power to you and your team!! More success to you!!! Thank you thank you, thank you!!! :), ive been using boujou for 3 years now... most of the time i get away with a lot of stuff, but you showed some new things to me.. thank you :)
Long process. When exporting, Set start index to 0, scale scene to 100. When you have your .c4d file made, open it in Notepad/textedit. Search for 3.14 until you find 3.14(etc) in-between two sets of 0.000000. Top 0.000000 should be negative. Bottom should be positive. Change the top to positive, change the 3.14(etc) to 0.000000, Then search for "ParentItem 10000001" then replace it with "ParentItem 10000002". That should fix it. Also make sure to use a h.264 compressed video inside Cinema 4d.
lol i love niko's explaining voice
You mean the camera is moving and the shot stands still at some point? Like walking towards a point and stopping? That's totally fine.
Does it help to increase the contrast and or add a sharpen effect to your footage before you export it as an image sequence?
I'ts logic to think so but I read in many places that the alghoritm works better with raw footage. (raw as untreated)
.No Color correction
.No sharpening
.Recorded with Fast Shutter to minimize motion blur
.Not to going out of focus also helps a lot :p
.Image Sequence instead of video (.tiff / targa /jpg etc)
+evilmorph - arts & creative media Yeah but what about game footage?
Have any issue with this tutorial? Respond to this comment with it and i'll answer :)
Oh don't mind me, just back re-watching this tutorial for the fourth time in the last seven years. (AKA "Your budget is what?? Of course I know how to do that!")
I believe you can set your focal length when creating a project :) I'm not sure what the focal length f a gopro is, it's probably around 10mm
Great turorial !, thank you very much!
This is so helpful! Thanks so much!!!
Protip : Red Giant Denoise is amazing.
Noice
thnx man, clear and concise tutorial
Hi, Sam and Niko.
Thank you very much for the tutorial.
After tracking and solving (with specified overlapping _Gold_ points spanning over 100 frames and all) everything looked pretty solid and made sense visually. However, upon switching to 3d view, to my astonishment, I found that the generated point cloud looked extremely shallow (nearly flat). In fact, some of the points corresponding to features in the scene *further from the real camera* actually appeared *closer to the solved camera*. What the hell?!
You emphasized at one point the importance of paralaxing to a good solve. I'm guessing my problem is due to lack thereof in the shot?
S.O.S.!
Sigh.I follow along like I do every tutorial but NOTHING sticks! The nulls just float around no matter what program I use. Boujou, Pf track, Mocha. I don´t get what the problem is!!
Same here... I'm starting to suspect something isn't right with my after effects installation. Have you solved the problem by now?
it's depending on the video quality and the camera movements. the better the resolution, the better result. you should use a spot with proper contrast and shadows for your video. i bet you guys simply use videos of shitty quality^^
Random Logick Yeah that actually was it. I was using my cell phone camera which produced massive amounts of motion blur. It works completely flawlessly with video shot with my DSLR.
HOLyP | Gaming auch die frame rate des videos sollte mit den einstellungen dieses programms übereinstimmen. hab ich iwo gelesen!
Random Logick Darauf hab ich schon geachtet :)
THANK YOU for finally doing this!
You mentioned high shutter speed, but what's 'high'? more than 1/50 for 24fps?
Im sorry i didnt understand the first minute at all, i was too busy watching roto play with her/his tail! SO Cute! :D
WE WANT MORE ! WE WANT MORE!
FINALLY. That's how you spell boujou!
Best cute-cat-video on UA-cam!!!
Woah such a great teacher
It's pretty straightforward, whenever you drop the object in, it follows the camera on it's own since it's being filmed by a CG camera. However I don't use max enough to know the exact step to have the video background in your viewer.
Jo i watched this and the nodal pan( man he was sooo young haha) Tutorial nowadays in 2022 and the information was just what i needed - thank you for not deleting your Videos here on UA-cam guys - Hell Effin´ Yeah!! haha THX Corridor Crew you are the best!!
They did that once already, but a second time would be nice too.
very neat, I had no idea that's how you do things. too bad the only program I have is After Effects. I'll stick to simpler things :)
I only paid attention to like half the tutorial, the cat had my full attention, lol!
Good Modeling. TurboSmooth and Mental Ray. here you go. Oh and also 12 hours rendering time for a 10 seconds 1080p video.
Anyone else watching the whole video, with no plans of ever trying this? :)
You basically mask the part that you want to object track, then invert the mask to get the whole scene except the object masked. When exporting, select "Frozen camera, moving scene" . Done. In your 3D program, parent your 3D object to the moving null.
Yes
Thank you! Even three years later, this is still one of the best Boujou camera tracking tutorials I've found.
how about 10 years later?
2024, still great lol Boujou destroys Mocha @@EdgePR0
Nico, thank you so much for this! You are incredible good with explaining things. What a source of knowledge! Please guys, do more tutorials like this. I would press like and subscribe a 1000 times if I could :)
This video was amazing.
thank you !! great !!! I would like to ask you what kind of lens or camera did you use to have a nice picture ! Thanks
Hey I watch your VFX artist react vedios I like them very much. Is it true after effects and Maya use same camera values I mean when I use camera in Maya and the same camera in after effects it's totally different. I tried looking for answers but didn't got any if you or any other reading this have solution to that then I would be happy to hear it thank you.
You guys mentioned blender have you ever used it for anything?
Great tut man... Crystal clear!!!
ok thanks man! No I wasn't trying to use it for 3D, I was trying to layer it in with stock footage and stuff but it would stick so I have been doing my tracking by hand or with the Motion Tracker in After Effects
What screen capture software are you guys using. i can't find one that works well. i used to use camtasia, but that started throwing a hissy fit whenever i wanted to export something longer than 2:49
Blender has it's own camera tracker.
It's funny because most of the people who follow this tutorial didn't pay for the program, or any other program...ever.
Can anyone help! How to Export camera data to BLENDER!?
@Shreyash More Already fed-up using it! It has semi-auto tracking! Not a Auto tracking like BOUJOU has!
@Shreyash More Can we bring boujou track data to blender?
Epic tutorial THX :D Do you guys ever use AEs 3D tracker? or just Boujou?
Align your scene like he shows.
FINALLY! THANK YOU GUYS!
Thanks! This video saved me.
I'm pretty sure that is a nodal pan as it is sort of panning with the actor.
THANKS guys i was waiting for it. I'm using syntheyes but boujou looks way more comfortable
Nice tutorial! but what about different FOV tracks? does Boujou track footage that's shot with wide angle GoPro or something like that?
p.s. will you make a tutorial about how you did some of the 3D animations or particle flow in „Potion Overdose“? Or is it Jam's responsibility? :))
please add the subtitle so people in another country (like me) can hear what you said,..you were speaking too fast so it was difficult for me to hear..:(..i really like your tutorial
There is English subtitles.
TheTwicey just an automatic Translating Subtiles by UA-cam,..sometimes it correct but almost all of it is incorrect,..:(...hope i can see a real subtiles someday,..
This program is 10,000 Dollars That's insane. I mean I'm sure you know what you're doing but I mean That's 10,000 Dollars I'm just curious what did you do before you had boujou? I guess blender keeps getting better and better because dang that's mind blowing.
Me: Niko, define Camera Tracking in two words.
Niko: "Everything STICKS !"
Like a boss. :D
Your cat's name is Roto! That's awesome!
Best mousepad ever.
do you guys shoot these at a higher shutter than 180 degrees?
if so, whats normal?
Faster shutter = less motion blur and better track?
do you guys add back in motion blur?
Thanks!
You guys should make a whole other channel dedicated to tutorials. I would sub to that shit.
I just grabbed a copy of the Houdini Software and thought it would be Awesome sauce!! If you could possible make a tutorial on the integration of Boujou and Houdini and rendering out to After Effects please ! there is nothing on youtube that i have found on this subject.
FIRST Time theyre creating a Serious & detailed tutorial, for a very important tool [which could get quite complicated..therefore a good explanation is in-need].
WAY TO GO, Corridor!!
"Im gonna save on Desktop...cause Im a baller" Best nerd computer file saving statement ever!
That cat is an awesome narrator, and a master at VFX!