Matthew Merkovich

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@mokoemm Күн бұрын

This is incredibly useful. Thanks a lot for sharing this knowledge!

@pinpointping6175 Ай бұрын

This is great. Thanks dude!

@ArtisticRyad Ай бұрын

is the discord still active? love your videos, would love to learn more from the community. been facing problems with a fisheye lens shot

@MatthewMerkovich Ай бұрын

@@ArtisticRyad Nope. That discord is gone, but I do recommend jumping on the Boris FX discord, where there’s a SynthEyes channel and a lot of people who would love to help.

@ArtisticRyad Ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich thanks a lot

@baldwin180 Ай бұрын

Hi, can you do a tutorial with a LiDAR scan from the iPhone and linking vfx shots with it? Thanks

@editorialbrain Ай бұрын

Okay I tried this with a survey and a tripod shot. Once I hit indirectly after pairing a bunch of linked tracker/features to from my tripod shot to the survyey, I got a fail with 105 hpix error haha. All 3 of your shot examples are shots with paralax..... How can I do this same idea but one of the shots in question is a tripod shot? Use case, let's say I get a survey shot, and there';s 10 vfx shots with parallex at that location, but also 3 handheld shots that would be a tripod solve. maybe even 1 ACTUALLY locked off shot, a true tripod shot. How can I use the survey shot master and apply that to my tripod shots so they inherit 3d information? Thanks a lot!

@MatthewMerkovich Ай бұрын

Try solving the low parallax shots with the "indirectly" solving technique, or even "automatic." Just check the "constrain" checkbox. With this methodology, you can even solve static cameras.

@editorialbrain Ай бұрын

NEVERMIND! I went to my tripod shot and realized I had runaway trackers. Once I cleared those, IT WORKED!!!!! Thank you for this tutorial. Really cool to be able to solve 3d for my tripod shots. This was bothering me for quite some time. Survey the set always, and then I can apply it to any shot in question. Amazing.

@MatthewMerkovich Ай бұрын

@@editorialbrain FWIW, LIDAR is often even better, even from a phone.

@editorialbrain Ай бұрын

Well... LAST step. I saved as, did lens workflow and tried to send to blender and it claims i didn't run it. I wonder if i need to save as a new syntheyes project, and then remove all the extra cameras and things, and THEN run the lens workflow and send out? Maybe that is needed. Otherwise maybe there's multiple cameras that have various lens distortion information that has or hasn't been run.... Would you recommend a save as and clear out the extra unneeded objects for so its JUST the stuff needed for t he tripod shot in question, THEN run lens workflow and then send to blender? Hey, I'll try it.

@MatthewMerkovich Ай бұрын

@@editorialbrain Are you using the latest SynthEyes with the most recent Blender exporter? I'd possibly suggest putting in a support ticket. Multiple cameras, after running the lens workflow, should work.

@带鱼带鱼 2 ай бұрын

Hi, I'd like to ask if there's a tutorial that analyzes both the camera's movement trajectory and the object's movement trajectory simultaneously.

@MatthewMerkovich 2 ай бұрын

Funny you should ask. I'm working on that tutorial right now.

@带鱼带鱼 2 ай бұрын

I'm really looking forward to your new tutorial. And thank you for your other tutorials as well, I've gained a lot from them.

@ABF_SJ 3 ай бұрын

That was great to see, thank you! I learnt a lot watching that. I never knew that you could lock trackers to stop the scene jumping around, the blips, and the benefits of doing a set survey! I'd be keen to learn more about how this can help shots with low parallax, I sometimes struggle with getting a decent, usable solve when there isn't any foreground objects and only a (greenscreen) backwall in shot.

@MatthewMerkovich 3 ай бұрын

Having a set survey can be a lifesaver when there is little parallax in the motion picture photography! Glad you liked it.

@quochaihaikahai4309 5 ай бұрын

1:24 I'm curious, with those scenes, which have lack of parallax, shaky camera, a lot of motion blur. How can you matchmove them? I mean... what do you need (like lidar scan, or something else....) to make those shoots to be possible to track? Can u reveal to me ? plz....😊

@MatthewMerkovich 5 ай бұрын

It’s a lot of meticulous supervised 2D tracking to start. No LIDAR. And frankly, SynthEyes makes that possible. It’s got the VFX industry’s very best tracking tools. The work is still hard though. 😉

@quochaihaikahai4309 5 ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich thanks for replying me, but u make me to be more curious :)))), I'm still a newbie in matchmove, so...... Anyway, your work is still impressive even it was 10 years ago, I hope one day I can reach that level 😊 (I wish ... I don't know but, If u can make a tutorial about those difficult scenes.... That will be amazing 😁. Although your free tutorials are amazing enough :v ). Have a good day MattMerk :v

@quochaihaikahai4309 5 ай бұрын

It's a great tutorial even in 2024

@quochaihaikahai4309 5 ай бұрын

I found u in the podcast of The VFX Artists Podcast, and then I found your channel, and then wow, "that's how the people who are in the industry work in matchmove." - that was what I thought. I love the way you share your skills, experiences to people (totally free). I learn about 3D in my university, but only 3D, not VFX. So I can't learn about matchmove, compositing,..... I saw your last video is about 2 year ago, that's so sad. I hope I can see your new video, they are really really helpful to me. Thank you so much for sharing to us.

@3pcgi959 5 ай бұрын

crazy 👏

@glmstudiogh 5 ай бұрын

you said no lens distortion before tracking. does that rule apply everywhere else or just in SynthEyes if I may ask? cause that is something has been bogging me

@MatthewMerkovich 5 ай бұрын

I'd say mostly SynthEyes, because the lens distortion calculations are so accurate. Beyond that, depending on the apps you are using, that assertion may or may not apply. But if you are 3D tracking in SynthEyes, you typically want to try letting SynthEyes solve for the distortion first, and only then moving on to other distortion management approaches.

@glmstudiogh 5 ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich I love Syntheyes but sometimes time constraints don’t permit me to jump between programs. And I’m a comp artist so I do the 3d camera tracking in nuke. Now I noticed something about nuke when about to solve, you can check the undistort lens button, but that button is not needed when the plate is already undistort.

@glmstudiogh 5 ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich so when I’m in Syntheyes. I shouldn’t bother undistorting. It’s wrong. And true, Syntheyes undistortion is very accurate

@MatthewMerkovich 5 ай бұрын

@@glmstudiogh We all have to play to our strengths, so if you are getting good results staying in Nuke, I say fabulous! But for me, when I was compositing in Nuke (or any other app), SynthEyes was much faster for me. The trick there is having good pipeline and workflow tools to make those transitions easier. For example, the new SynthEyes to Flame workflow makes switching back and forth much, much faster.

@Utsab_Giri 6 ай бұрын

Hi Matthew, Thank you so much for making these incredible tutorials! I have a few questions, if you don't mind. It's about scanning green screen survey footage. -Do you need to scan the entire studio? Meaning, can you shoot just the cyc and have enough tracking data? -Would the process be exactly the same? After all, a green screen cyc wouldn't have as much parallax as this footage, no? I noticed that, in your previous video, there was only one c-stand in the foreground, would it be better to have more stuff spread out in the mid-ground and the foreground or would it just get in the way? -If the soundstage/studio is really big, the opposite side to the cyc is really dark. And if the footage has too much noise on the studio side, would you denoise the two halves separately? Thank you again!

@MatthewMerkovich 6 ай бұрын

The more parallax the better. Having things in the foreground, mid-ground, and background is always best.

@MrMcnamex 6 ай бұрын

I can't seem to get the mesh to stays throughout the entire timeline after pinning. There must be some steps missing after pinning. Help

@MatthewMerkovich 6 ай бұрын

I recommend doing a video screen capture of your own to demonstrate what you are seeing.

@MrMcnamex 6 ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich All good finally understand the importance of locking the seed. So hard to get it right, especially with less accurate geometry. Much appreciated Matt

@minimalfun 6 ай бұрын

Every video of yours is filled with nuggets of tracking wisdom.

@minimalfun 6 ай бұрын

Your videos is a MUST WATCH for every 3D artist, I used to do tracking with RealViz MatchMover in 2004, and every single video of yours is a revelation.

@minimalfun 6 ай бұрын

Every single video of yours is a GEM thank you very very very much for sharing Matthew, I just can't thank you enough.

@merdoVFX 6 ай бұрын

3:40 xDD

@mohamaddarahsiri6268 6 ай бұрын

When the camera is moving, how to leave the faces of moving people!?

@saifsami_ss 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Matthew for helping us learn tracking without much of challenges

@merdoVFX 7 ай бұрын

Ty for the tut <3

@andreybagrichuk5365 7 ай бұрын

What an amazing deep content about topic. Man, thank you a lot that you Exist ! U make this CGI world better 😎

@lucho3612 7 ай бұрын

right click - "bigger tiles"

@MatthewMerkovich 7 ай бұрын

That's the problem with SynthEyes: features get added so often that sometimes, as tutorials I may have posted get older, features and UI changes happen later that simplify workflows.😉

@lucho3612 7 ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich yess I post this comment without finishg the video haha

@MatthewMerkovich 7 ай бұрын

@@lucho3612 LOL! 😂

@lucho3612 7 ай бұрын

Saving this tutorial to save my life

@andybclarke1465 7 ай бұрын

Excellent, thank you for this. Very helpful. I'd been using keentols pin tool in nuke, not realizing it already existed in here.

@Amr_Cinema 8 ай бұрын

I love this toturial

@jkartz92 8 ай бұрын

you should be making an ultimate matchmove course using syntheyes!!

@MatthewMerkovich 8 ай бұрын

Be sure to find more SynthEyes tutorials from me on the Boris FX youtube channel! ;-)

@jkartz92 8 ай бұрын

never knew syntheyes could do this, a detailed tutorial for beginers will be really helpful!!

@ivancuetowicq 8 ай бұрын

so just discovered your channel and it's been one year since your last post, no more videos?

@MatthewMerkovich 8 ай бұрын

You can now find more videos from me on the Boris FX KZbin channel.

@ivancuetowicq 8 ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich cool, thanks

@CARSPLE 8 ай бұрын

How you open image presentation setup?

@MatthewMerkovich 8 ай бұрын

"p" on your keyboard, or go to the Shot menu / Image Preprocessor

@kabalxizt5028 8 ай бұрын

REALY HELPFUL ITS A MASTER PIEACE TUTORIAL FOR TRAKERS ARTISTS

@ELCoN_FX 9 ай бұрын

"Even 15 years ago, i still don't need any more trcking markers"lol..really wow man. you are legend

@william_chidube 9 ай бұрын

7 years later. Still the best SynthEyes tutor!

@MatthewMerkovich 9 ай бұрын

Since the sale of SynthEyes to Boris FX, I recommend starting with their channel. Here's my first intro video for them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3qpYnuql9SaldE

@ryanansen 10 ай бұрын

You have a very entertaining and informative way of teaching in your videos. Your channel is incredibly underrated! Please create more content! I'm asking out of pure, unadulterated selfishness so I can learn as much as possible from you! Hahaha Thanks again for these videos!

@MatthewMerkovich 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Ryan! Withe the recent acquisition of SynthEyes by Boris FX, you can find new videos from me there, with more to come. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3qpYnuql9SaldEsi=LHvGrjb2qjT83rrM

@ryanansen 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great video! I've been binge watching all your content and it's great. You mention at the end of the video about how you could drop that tracker point onto a 3D mesh of a head and hand key the rotation and such while its position is being guided by the tracker. I would love to see a video on that, perhaps even using this same footage? By now I'm sure you've seen The Creator and the wonderful work ILM did with such minimal on-set preparation; often times working with footage that have at most 3 visible dots drawn on the actors' faces, and sometimes nothing at all, all the while producing wonderfully incorporated CGI that fits seamlessly into the live action. It would be such an amazing resource to see how you would go about tackling a similar job of accurately solving a head's motion and getting a CGI element to stick to that live action with zero drift.

@DevlynneSloth 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the in depth tutorial, especially how things work in your brain. The advices and little tips helped the most, especially for people like me who are forced to learn it on our own at short notices and given really difficult blurry shots.

@MatthewMerkovich 10 ай бұрын

Thanks you! Just an FYI, I'm now making SynthEyes tutorials for Boris FX, so be sure to check out their KZbin channel.

@Vondoodle 10 ай бұрын

AT LAST - this was the most transparent look at set survey from multiple shots ive seen so far

@bohdan_lvov 11 ай бұрын

I'm not even in VFX, I'm in realtime side of things these days, but god, I just LOVE all your videos, tutorials and amazing stories behind them. Thanks for sharing each and every bit of it!

@Justdentures 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for that, I am 2 weeks into learning SythEyes. Love your tutorial skills. Please do more❤

@MatthewMerkovich 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! I’m publishing all my SynthEyes tutorials over on the Boris FX KZbin channel. Here’s the first one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3qpYnuql9SaldEsi=koijGRTAaS0YkQcV

@minimalfun 11 ай бұрын

Every single video of yours is a world of wisdom, I used MatchMover back in 2002 and later C4D's own tracker, I can't tell you how much I learn from every single video of yours and I am super excited that you are recording videos for BorisFX, as far as Tracking goes, it doesn't get any better than that! From the bottom of my heart Thank you Matthew!

@MatthewMerkovich 11 ай бұрын

Matchmover! Now that's a blast from the past. I've tracked in just about every app imaginable and I've never found anything better than SynthEyes. Thanks for following along. More videos are on the way!

@minimalfun 11 ай бұрын

@@MatthewMerkovich Thank you very much and I can't wait, really excited for your next videos 🤩🤩

@WaqasYTC Жыл бұрын

You deserve a million subscribers, but unfortunately, people no longer seem to appreciate aesthetics.

@MatthewMerkovich Жыл бұрын

Thanks Waqas!

@asafilms Жыл бұрын

How?

@zhongjianwu3692 Жыл бұрын

I've gone through the second part, but I didn't see how the recorded the actual camera data used on the field. Did I miss something, or does SynthEyes not require recording the camera parameters during actual shooting?

@MatthewMerkovich Жыл бұрын

No, SynthEyes requires no information about the camera. The solve results will always be more accurate than anything written down during production.

@YanyanLun Жыл бұрын

jesus i used this bgm in my demo also.....

@YanyanLun Жыл бұрын

i like ur long videos!!!!!!!!!!

@YanyanLun Жыл бұрын

jesus, i knew ur also a musician i knew it!

@ABF_SJ Жыл бұрын

Hi Matthew, I'm just wondering if there is anywhere I can see the video that was up on Lester Banks, regarding "STOP WITH THE CRAZY TRACKING MARKERS"? It seems to have disappeared from Vimeo. I've got a green screen shoot next week, and looking for some tips on what tracking markers to use... size and colour? Many thanks!

@MatthewMerkovich Жыл бұрын

Everything that was up on Vimeo is now here, but as far as markers on green screen go, lighter green on darker green screen is usually best. Just have decent coverage so you always have enough markers visible.

@ABF_SJ Жыл бұрын

@MatthewMerkovich Thank you very much for the quick reply! That's really useful.

@alinazaranimation557 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt for the incredible info. And now I have irrelevant question about Syntheyes, and that is when I solved my well done supervised trackers, the solve messages just says that there are 53 trackers unsolved which is half amount of all the trackers I have in the scene, so the solved camera in 3d doesn't move for half of the shot, then started moving after the solved trackers, my unsolved trackers turned to red color, which indicates the unsolved trackers, please help and tell me what wrong did I do, snd why this is happening? And please make a video about these kinda issues may face beginners, intermediates, and pros. Thanks in advance.

@MatthewMerkovich Жыл бұрын

Without actually seeing yuor scene, there's really no way to troubleshoot, I'm sorry to say.

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