PFTrack Tutorial - 3d Camera Tracking

[@pedrokobuti]

Awesome tutorial! Went from 'never used the software' to 'tracking multiple shots successfully' in half an hour! Thanks a lot dude!

[@marvintyler7584]

Thank u so much, interested in starting so soft during quarintine and just need a place to get started, thx for the support

[@michalserafin6972]

This is the best tutorial about good tracking.

[@juandiegovgs]

You Sir, 3 years later saved me! Thank you so much!!!

[@PathinAZ]

GREAT tut! I've watched a boatload of PFtrack tuts and the helped a bit but left me with just more questions. This was clear and concise... can't wait for the next one! Thx!

[@Ruan3D]

Thanks!! Glad u liked it!

[@ianwittenber]

Great tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing. It would be great to see you track a really difficult shot.

[@s.p.98]

Dude you are cool! There are no good tutorials in my native Russian, thank you

[@cardermedia]

Nice opening tutorial for people considering using PFTrack. Many thanks for making this.

[@Ruan3D]

+Paul Carder Motion Graphics cool thanks for watching!

[@gaetangtz]

for now, the best tut I found about pftrack !!! thank you very much

[@Ruan3D]

+Gaetan GTZ Great thanks! :)

[@indianvfxschool]

whenever i export my scene to 3ds max irs scale is too small,if i increase the scale size then my grid gets very small what to do?

[@umamartinez938]

Great tut! Am used to georeferencing geological sections in 3d for digitizing and model creation. This tracking process seems analogous to adding control points. But it doesn't feel like 3d, ie you can't walk behind one of the mushrooms in the clip solved in this tut. Or can you? I am I correct if I understand you basically have to film and resolve the views from the whole final Trajectory? Ie am I wrong if I say a true 3d representation cannot be made unless the entire scene or object is encircled? Is that what a 3d scanner does? Looking forward to the other software tuts you mention. ( in my field we have remote sensing / image processing / surface modelling software ie Erdas imagine and Virtual Gis. The software vendors call that and other similar visualization software 2.5 D . Then one has gocad where you can build wireframes - ie do detailed topological modelling changes - I am guessing that maya would be the animation / film equivalent? Thx ums

[@vizgroup1352]

hello ! why did you use rotate skew and scale deformations for that shot ? can you explain please when to use them and when not ?

[@HIGHnRICH]

Bru... You are a beast. I'm watching this in 2020 and This tutorial is perfect. I hope you enjoy a lekker brannas en coke this weekend. Stay Safe bru.

[@tautegu]

Isn't the sensor size 36mm x 24mm?

[@ChayongkornSingprasong]

Thank you very much. This tutorial is pretty good, it shows some errors or bad tracks that you encountered. Unlike other tutorials that everything always works. I'm working on a scene where the character's arm is moving and also the camera is moving. I want to put an object on the arm. So just wondering how can I combine the 3d camera tracking with object tracking?

[@julienarnaudet7525]

Great Tutorial, it helped me a lot but i have a little problem. I put a test object node at the end of the hierarchy and i added mushrooms. The problem is they don't have the correct size in my viewport. Furthermore, the grid is correctly placed. When i put a mushroom on a point tracker in the background, it is bigger than a mushroom on a point tracker in the foreground. It is strange. Do you know why this happen ?

[@kendarr]

I have pretty avarege phone camera and i can't use it for crap on Blender since it need more info on my camera, but this software warms my heart

[@TechFilmsTechnology]

Boujou vs Pftrack ? what is better ?

[@888marin888]

vEry nIce tutorial ! So clear without any blabla ! You have a sub and a like ^^ Please continu :) I dont have 3DsMax, do you work with Cinema4D too ?

[@jamesmccallum1248]

No criticism of the creator here but I'm at 9:08 and if I was using 3DE I'd be onto the next shot by now. With a toilet break in between because of all the coffee I'm going to consume watching the next twenty minutes of this video. Tutorials do not need to be thirty minutes long. And I'm not convinced PFTrack is 'the most innovative product of its kind'. Oh well, I guess we'll find out!!! Update: We're at fourteen minutes now and we've learnt two things, and we've watched the user do the same thing fifty-six times now. It's just like learning how to track on 3DE back at Weta, in 2003. In fact, it's just like tracking - do the same thing over and over and over again, hit 'Solve', and you're done. Easy! What is a gold key? What happens to the keys before and after when you hit R+? Or H+? Why do you need to hit two buttons to do the same thing? Why do you need to track forwards and backwards? Why is my hair falling out? Okay let's see what happens in the next twenty minutes... 23:40 Okay this procedure is what we had to do back in 2004 with Boujou. Spending ages eye-balling how good auto-tracks are. In 3DE there's a graph that does this - you can literally pinpoint which points are tracking poorly. Select and delete ( single key-stroke btw. There's some innovation - doubling the amount of effort it takes to delete something. )

[@terrablader]

Can you tell me if an inexpensive Sony Handycam HDR-CX240 would be good enough for matchmoving? ?? What is a decent camera or video camera for the job? I have no data on the lense or camera, no idea of it is interlaced or what type of adjustments need to be made made to the footage prior. Other than sometimes seeing some straight walls that can undistort with? then the footage in max is undistorted?? what do do in such case also? Every attempt I have made at this fails miserably. A friend with allot of animation experience told me not even to bother but would like to learn. Can it be that hard? I see allot of decent matchmoving examples on youtube that give me hope. Thank you for your tutorial one of the best out there for sure.

[@_gg_3456]

Baie dankie meneer,ek is nou op die regte pad met PF track! Great tutorial :)

[@Ruan3D]

Groot plesier!

[@maxedesa]

Thanks for the instruction. Very useful and much appreciated.

[@Ruan3D]

Thank you - remember to subscribe for new weekly tutorials!

[@munjeongwon]

Thanks a lot !! I don't how to use PFtrack. but, now I can use PFtrack.

[@Luvpotion]

Best PFtrack tutorial I've seen. Thanks.

[@alecweinstein]

Amazing tutorial. High quality content for the serious user!

[@Ruan3D]

+Alec W Awesome glad you liked it!

[@shanukhalifa6726]

+TunnelvizionTV After Track how to export to Maya ?

[@Ruan3D]

+shanu khalifa have a look at this video - should be very similar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZDTiHyCmLBsZ6c

[@shanukhalifa6726]

Thanks.

[@shanukhalifa6726]

+TunnelvizionTV How to reopen the project in PFtrack. I tried to reopen my previous work I click SWITCH it says corrupt and i also try Re-link it does not work.

[@Repko01]

Thank you boet, you are a genius! All your tutorials are first class :)

[@Murathanaksoz]

there is no "parameters" secton in my pf track. can you help me please

[@janosgero4446]

Why do you need a user track before an auto track? Very nice though, thanks for the video!

[@MartinAPayne]

Thanks for the tutorial...I'm just learning Pftrack and I'm having a scaling issue going to 3ds Max. I selected two trackers in orient scene node and input the distance...in meters right? I left the scale in export node at 1. When I bring it into max and add objects everything is tiny, not to scale. Would you adjust the scale in the export node until it seems right?

[@atisvideo]

Hey man, cool stuff you got for the tutorial, is there a way in which we can download the video file for training purposes? thank you so much!

[@sarahbaozi8559]

Thank you so much for your help! This was great, now just gotta take my track and add it to my comp in Nuke! :)

[@spider853]

Thanks for the tutorial I have a question, is there a smoothing between two keyframes on user tracks? Let's say my tracker drives away at frame 10, but it's good at 0, can I fix it at 10, and somehow interpolate between 0 tracking and 10, so there will not be a one frame jump on the fixed frame?

[@dasaca07]

Good tutorial bro... how you tracking object and solve camera in the same scene?

[@Ruan3D]

Hey David Santana I will do an Object Tracking tutorial soon ;) Thanks for watching!

[@phreakii]

Nice tutorial : ) I would love to see one where the camera pans. I want to motion track, typing a keyboard pans to the right looking at the desk. The back to the keyboard. This suck, just jump around. I even placed markers.

[@mistercrayle]

How to orient XYZ would be helpful as well

[@TechFilmsTechnology]

search mods: Optical flow or better accuracy ? i thing better accuracy is better....

[@Dazzer1234567]

Great tutorial, many thanks!

[@VFXLtd]

How did get the node window to appear on the left side? Mine doesnt open by default

[@maylie3]

Thanks a lot! This is a very clear and useful tutorial.

[@Ruan3D]

Tx for watching!

[@Jollysweets08]

amazing tutorial! thanks so much!

[@Ruan3D]

Awesome thanks for the comment!

[@cookiemonster6830]

Love your tutorials! those saved my ass in the past, so "Thank you!"!!!!

[@Ruan3D]

haha cool - thanks for watching!

[@antfraine]

Perfect tutorial - Nice one!

[@ivandraco1972]

Does pf track only accept image sequence footage? if so whats the best way to export an image sequence/best format? (PS: for those who are having trouble loading image sequences in maya, dont use underscores when exporting, maya has trouble recognizing)

[@jackblack9258]

so much information...Thanks alot buddy!!!

[@terrablader]

Really like your tutorials. How hard would it be to track 3D 360 footage for VR? Seems like the next big thing would be fun to make things look real in a VR setup. Some cheap 360 cameras are coming out, even some 3D sterio ones. Would it be a nightmare to track?

[@Ruan3D]

+terrablader thanks for your comment! That is definitely the next thing I want to get into this year! Will do a tutorial once I figured it out.

[@terrablader]

Sweet as always thanks for your reply. Do you consult? I might need need to get some instruction up the road. This stuff is hard to learn, well worth some investment. If so can you message me contact info and rates so forth. Thanks!

[@terrablader]

Also I tried the VR headset recently the one that goes with the phone. It was really amazing, 10x better than what I expected. Can really see how this will be quantum leap for CGI work. Imagine making your renders and footage look real, I mean there. Even crappy renders can look cool. An throwing the models into real footage wow. Especially footage that is actual to where the person is standing the whole thing is mind blowing.

[@christopher8116]

Great Tutorial a few questions; You must use AutoTrack even though you used User Track, this is a must ? I'm having problem tracking a truck, can you offer some help ?

[@Ruan3D]

Hi, you don't have to use auto track, I find that it can give you better results but if you have an excellent user track with enough trackers then no need for auto track.

[@christopher8116]

+TunnelvizionTV I'm having difficulty tracking a truck, due to power lines in the background, I was informed to use planar tracking ? If I could show you, hopefully you can help ?

[@shanukhalifa6726]

+TunnelvizionTV I exported in maya but points are not stick to the video. Why ?

[@RK-en8ic]

Thank you sir

[@harikrishna7690]

Can i get a matchmoving job after watching this tutorial and practice?

[@nguyenhungarc7627]

Hi, How I can download this software. Thank you so much.

[@pixologi2341]

Hello. Great video. I cannot import the .MOV file to Pftrack. How do you do this?

[@Ruan3D]

Best is to convert the MOV to an image sequence - I usually go for PNG files. Works much better :)

[@pixologi2341]

@@Ruan3D Thank you for the answer. :) Yes, I do. I am using png sequence. I saw that you can import the .mov extension directly to pftrack and I was curious. Thank you so much. :)

[@Ruan3D]

@@pixologi2341 No prob - yes I think it's possible, but always better to use image seq if you can :)

[@pixologi2341]

@@Ruan3D

[@fdlarts7676]

Does anyone know how to track a shot that begins with the camera looking up (no floor), because the PF track thinks that the roof is the floor and it just stops tracking once the camera tilts down

[@Shaash009]

hey...thats was a very helpful tut...keep up the good work..:D

[@marrkone]

very helpful. thx a lot

[@samzzverma2411]

bro help..... if i have just some numbers of tracker point.. then its good for tracking or.. i have to create more amount of tracking points....

[@comanda4]

nice tutorial thx Sir

[@serjs1640]

Подскажите пожалуйста как создавать 3D-модель на базе двумерной графики в этой программе ?

[@3deeart]

I love this tutorial!!! Thank you!!!!

[@Ruan3D]

+Dorottya Horvath cool thanks for watching!

[@karodilal3369]

Sir please help me Not import my video in pf track

[@seasonfilms9375]

I see on pixel farm that there is a linux version which is what I'm looking for. Would you know how to download this for arch linux???

[@romina1087]

QUE FORMATO DE VIDEO ADMITE PARA IMPORTAR PFTRACK ???? GRACIAS

[@hakju2705]

Cool ! Nice Tuto :-)

[@diogocarrijoa]

Awesome Tutorial!!!

[@evgeniysenko]

Where I can see the second lesson?

[@fancart]

thanks you very much !!!

[@terrablader]

Thank you for your instant reply and assist, but I noticed in that tutorial the camera is static. My other concern with object track with moving camera, is my camera is a nodal pan on tripod, being the tracks are in an arc in nodal pan does this make 3d object track impossibe? Do you consult? Looking for a few hours of direction . Thank you

[@Ruan3D]

What I do is treat it as a static camera with only a moving object, so you will basically export a still / static camera with a moving object! :)

[@terrablader]

+TunnelvizionTV . Very interesting , what would your node tree look like in such case? Image--> ;Autotrack --> Camera Solve --> User Track -->Object solve --> Export?

[@Ruan3D]

Have a look at my Object Tracking tutorial, its all there :)

[@terrablader]

+TunnelvizionTV thanks that helps allot, in that tutorial the camera scene was not tracked, only the object, can you tell me how you put both together? I did not see any trackers on the surrounding scene. I need to matchmove some background stuff too. Also Nodal pan I am worried about since it does not create accurate 3d pointcloud type of tracks thanks again

[@terrablader]

if you had a moving object in that scene , how would you track for that object? would you mask it out, solve camera for scene, then add object track node after the camera with same mask inverted? then another export?

[@Ruan3D]

Hi I did an object tracking tutorial a few months ago. Check that out.

[@Ruan3D]

Here is the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqO9gYBvotiooMU

[@just4nutsadel-syrano717]

hi, can you please help me i have pftrack 2015 but it oppens only images not videos :'( HELP

[@epereyralucena]

omg game changer, thanks a lot

[@ryzenfree3301]

How to Export with Logo?

[@Neil_Creates]

I can't import my video file, should I have to make it in image sequence first??

[@REVmatcher25]

yes

[@imahikavfx]

can you upload your tracking footage?

[@73maxmau]

I'm starting to hate pftrack. When I solve the trackers, everything is fine. I solve my camera and it solve it very well ( 1,5 average errors). BUT when orienting the scene. the floor doesn't stick and for the whole footage but jump out of place half way through! When exporting to Maya is impossible to matchfit. What is wrong I got no clue. It only happens with this particular footage.

[@Ruan3D]

Did u set the origin? Sounds like the floor plane is a above or below the actual floor.

[@73maxmau]

I did. I tried hadding more trackers and resolving and it seems better, but still not perfect. I think that it might be because the footage was taken with a mobile ( Lumia 830 ). It is supposed to be very good, camera wise but, when rotating, the footage seems distorted on top. In a 690 frames footage, 1 to 450 are fine then 451 to 580 is not aligning in Maya, then from 581 is aligned again!

[@Ruan3D]

73maxmau Ah might be lens distortion.... I don't have a tutorial on that, but just search for PFTrack lens distortion. Let me know if that works!

[@73maxmau]

TunnelvizionTV Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately the distortion was very small ( 0,0012). But I noticed that, even though pftrack solve everything, In the 3d space it's not right at all. A flat wall, with multiple tracks is showing the tracks not in the same axe in the suface of the wall. it's like the wall has variable depth in 3d space. This is so annoying. I tried with stock footage found in the web, and everything is working. It must be the Lumia 830. Also, Microsoft says in specs 26mm focal, but estimate tracking says 12mm ?!?

[@petersolomon8894]

73maxmau I suggest you contact Pixel Farm. I am not using PfTrack but PfClean. I have found PFClean 2012- 2013 a complex app and counter intuitive to use. And now the 2014 release features a new interface! Anyway, Pixel Farm should be there to help you.

[@cmdr.shepard]

How about when ground isn't always visible and there's a lot of pan?

[@benwhite9989]

consider filming in a place where objects such as street lamps or signs pass by, that should help significantly

[@ojust4fun960]

It there a way to let the world be bigger???

[@terrablader]

excellent

[@breezstudio9630]

cool love it

[@Daniel-yk8iz]

hey how to import 3d objects in pftrack ???????????????????????????????????????????????

[@vfx2916]

How to increase user interface font size in PFTRACK 2015? any one pls help me.

[@73maxmau]

Perhaps tracking software need very expensive professional videocameras?

[@Ruan3D]

Not really- maybe add a sharpen adjustment to your footage!

[@Talleyhoooo]

+73maxmau 1] Remove noise 2] Bump up contrast -that should get most footage to behave

[@adarshupadhyay5410]

For some reasons, I cannot import my mp4 file. Help please

[@benwhite9989]

convert to image sequence

[@Addepat]

The way you remove the bad tracks is not the right way....nice tutorial though.

[@dochithanh131]

I Can't download PF Track from anywhere !!!!! Do U have link for it, bro ??? Thanks for you're Tut !!!!

[@Ruan3D]

You can get a trial version from their site - just search pftrack trial version.

[@dochithanh131]

Thank you. But , there are no crack for it ??? @@

[@petersolomon8894]

Do Chi Thanh Pixel Farm are the vendor.

[@Gyanenmhz]

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[@teamEP789]

you don't get the hint do you?

[@dontusedontuse8273]

Lekker man

[@yanniskus3260]

Is Pftrack for free?

[@yayarea82]

do you import to c4d

[@XxMrDAVIDA7xX]

you can..

[@yayarea82]

can you teach us....for some reason it never works for me...

[@marciopite729]

You export for C4d via lightwave .lws and simply open it in C4d

[@gauravmyeducation4746]

@dekhloseekhlo MORE TUTORIAL IN HINDI

[@andrejansevanvuuren3925]

Ja neh?

[@gauravmyeducation4746]

#dekhloseekhlo MORE TUTO...

[@MultiProEdits]

South African?

[@Ruan3D]

Yap :)

[@jononaidoo2893]

+TunnelvizionTV representing boet!

[@Ruan3D]

+Jono Naidoo haha probeer maar ja :)

[@jononaidoo2893]

Good job , good tut, nice and clean.!!!

[@Ruan3D]

+Jono Naidoo thanks!

[@bekirdemir6537]

ulan tam dedik türkçe kaynak bulduk ...

[@vincentnord5447]

bruuhh

[@TheDoctorlike]

Your pronounciation and your weird clicking noises youre making are very annoying for me but the tutorial was helpful. Thanks.

[@Ruan3D]

haha yeah I'm South African so sorry about that - glad you thought it was helpful though. :)

[@TheDoctorlike]

Its okay dude, Everythings fine

[@Ruan3D]

haha cool cool !

[@Advection357]

You're that easily annoyed? I mean... mouse clicking noises?! Oh lets keep the clicking down, Mr sensitive ears here gets annoyed! geez!

[@TheDoctorlike]

I dont see why you are attacking me. Also I didnt say I find his "mouse clikcing noises" annoying but those clicking noises he made using his mouth. He didnt feel offended and I didnt want to offend him. Theres no need protecting him. Why acting like a kid?

[@googolmorons620]

subsliking sucks

[@FreeSkySolutions]

Thank you!

[@JannikPitt]

Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful!

[@SmieszekWojciech]

I can't import file.MOV please, help me