SynthEyes Essentials - 01 Introduction to 3D Matchmoving and Tracking [Boris FX]

[@minimalfun]

Wow, Matthew Merkovich, the grand master himself is doing the new series for BorisFX ? Really really exciting! Thank you very much Matthew and thanks a lot BorisFX 🙏🙏🙏

[@BorisFXco]

Yeah, we really glad that Matthew is creating this course for us. He's undeniably brilliant.

[@millolab]

So awesome to see Matt doing tutorials again! A true master at work!

[@BorisFXco]

We agree wholeheartedly.

[@akamrezaee]

The master has arrived! It's a pleasure to see you, and the opportunity to learn from the master is invaluable. Hopefully, you'll consider creating more videos for advanced artists.

[@BorisFXco]

The idea with this series is to build something for beginners, which also has some new techniques for experienced users. Then we add on complexity as the series continues. Matthew is a great artist and trainer.

[@MatthewMerkovich]

Have to get the intro videos out first, but then yes, absolutely!

[@johntnguyen1976]

Yasssss! Been waiting for this one... and it didnt disappoint!! And Matt Merkovich is a legend!

[@BorisFXco]

Agreed on all points.

[@manolomaru]

...Thank you so much for continuing sharing these Sytheyes suuuuper videos!

[@BorisFXco]

More coming. I'm glad you like them.

[@imtiazali6980]

Great teacher thank you for this series of tutorial waiting for next ones

[@BorisFXco]

We agree, Matthew is fantastic.

[@oblstudios.g]

Wow 🎉. That was really insightful. Especially the small and big feature track thing at the blips advanced panel. Can’t wait to see the next.

[@BorisFXco]

There's so many great features shown in this one video. I'm learning new things each time I rewatch it.

[@oblstudios.g]

Please the most requested feature. “Align track to previous key” during supervised tracking. And syntheyes will be the best in the industry. Can’t wait. Please do it for us.

[@twistedjourney]

Finally a Syntheyes tracking tutorial 😀

[@BorisFXco]

Glad you liked it! It's going to be a powerful series.

[@robertdouble559]

Matt! I've still got a copy of your book on my shelf! Great video and nice Danelectro too!

[@MatthewMerkovich]

My book? What book? 🤔 But I do love that guitar!

[@robertdouble559]

@MatthewMerkovich I must be mixing up my Matt the trackers! I might be copping a Mandela effect glitch innthe simulation! Nice Dano though!

[@MatthewMerkovich]

⁠@@robertdouble559 HAHAHA!!! Anytime I achieve any kind of Mandela effect, I call that a win!

[@merdoVFX]

ihope at the end of this awesome course to make vid about exporting 3d camera track to other 3d programs like blender and maya in a vertical and horizontal footage

[@MatthewMerkovich]

That is my plan!

[@soulboyken]

👍👍👍This is awesome, I'm still using the classic panel for the distortion solving lenses, after that I can try the new module.

[@BorisFXco]

The new models are really good!

[@i20010]

Great tutorial! Looking forward to the next ones!! (Please modernize the user interface sometime in the near future?!)

[@BorisFXco]

Thanks. Getting the best user experience is a priority for us. Doing so in a way that doesn't alienate current users is also top of mind. Your feedback is important.

[@i20010]

Gottcha, in any case we all appreciate you guys keeping SE alive and kicking! thanks@@BorisFXco

[@yinon_tal]

I learned a lot in this chapter, and waiting as well to the next one

[@BorisFXco]

Coming soon :D

[@gibgibGG]

Mathew, I've always enjoyed your teaching, thanks! I also noticed you have a Gibson ES-335 (at least it looks like a 335 or it may be an Epiphone--can't see the headstock) hanging on the wall along with a Fender Telecaster (maybe a Squire? or G&L?) I'm guessing you play them because they've both got guitar straps 🎸🎸🎸. I'm not sure what the acoustic and the other electric on the floor are though? 🤠

[@MatthewMerkovich]

The red one is an Epiphone. The acoustic on the floor is a Fender. The Tele is a cheap Squire that I keep around for tinkering, but the blue electric is a Danelectro '59 re-issue which I love playing more than any of the others.

[@BorisFXco]

Someone asking the questions I never dared to ask. It's been on my mind for a while.

[@gibgibGG]

@@MatthewMerkovich Yes! Danelectro, very cool. Love it! 🎸

[@dclovensky]

Matthew the best

[@merdoVFX]

ty u guys for this tut keep the good work

[@BorisFXco]

Thanks! More coming.

[@joonykids]

This Man is a true legend.

[@BorisFXco]

Absolutely confirmed.

[@Vassay]

Love the new look, Matt!

[@MatthewMerkovich]

Thanks, but I'm just losing my sight! 😂

[@Vassay]

@@MatthewMerkovich You've held for much longer than I have lol

[@MatthewMerkovich]

@@Vassay Ha!

[@waliso9437]

this is what we need becuse all the other videos are so old and difficult to finish

[@alwayscallingmeblaze]

Perfect timing! I just bought my new SynthEyes Boris upgrade. I would REALLY like some pointers on a SynthEyes to DaVinci Resolve/Fusion workflow. I want to use SynthEyes for all of my tracking now.

[@BorisFXco]

Yeah, we will be covering exporting to different hosts shortly in this series. What sort of projects are you looking to do with Fusion, for example clean up, 3D compositing, camera projection?

[@alwayscallingmeblaze]

It’s a variety of things but mostly clean up and 3D compositing. Camera projection would be amazing to be able to have a workflow for too! I am planing a live-action anime-type video pretty soon (VFX heavy) and I know tracking with Fusion will only get me so far. I also might be looking into using the particle application on Boris FX as well. I usually use Fusion for my particles but again, I know it can only take me so far. So I’m glad I upgraded when I did.

[@BorisFXco]

Thanks for the feedback. It's really useful. I'll be sure to pass it along to the content creation team.

[@alwayscallingmeblaze]

@@BorisFXco Oh and Planar Tracking. I know you have Mocha for that but I am trying to see what I can get done with SynthEyes for now since I have a permanent license.

[@MatthewMerkovich]

@callingmeblaze I'm planning on addressing Fusion a bit in the tutorial after the one that I am just wrapping up on, which is coming-soon. And regarding planar tracking in SynthEyes: For plain old planar tracking, I typically refer people to Mocha, but planar tracking in SynthEyes definitely has its uses. I plan on a short video covering that in the near future, as well.

[@TraySamuels]

Will this eventually be added into continuum for rcp ? we need a competitive 3d tracker other than motionvfx

[@BorisFXco]

It's currently part of the Boris FX Suite, and has exporters for certain Continuum filters like Particle Illusion and .motn exports for a Motion camera. Are there any particular effects or types of shots you would like to do?

[@mattl5402]

I appreciate your tutorials. Can you please talk about importing a png sequence vs mp4, when you have a long project, like an hour. I also found out to go to edit preferences and change the Max RAM Cache. Russ has a video about solving a long video but it is done for a 360 video and needs an update. For reference my RAM is 192GB and loading up a 4k 1 hour video leaves a lot of red on the bottom and solving is long. Thanks.

[@BorisFXco]

This is a good topic of conversation. An hour worth of video is always going to be tough to cache into RAM, even with 192GB available. Thanks for the feedback.

[@x1x2z3]

Great tutorial. Thanks.

[@jonsail]

Looking forward to the next tutorial on point cloud 3D reconstruction

[@BorisFXco]

Here's a quick link for you : kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3-XgWSmr7ySasU

[@pittsyfpv]

Should I manually delete trackers on moving subjects in the video?

[@BorisFXco]

If you are solving the scene then yes. Or preferably mask them out with garbage mask __prior__ to tracking and solving.

[@amritfactorrrrrrr]

Hi! I had a question, I have a track of a drone flying over a river with some nice depth from trees and mountains. The track seems to do well, however around 300 frames in (out of 700 frames) the camera track, and all of the trackers, suddenly shift a foot over. When looking at the camera path it shows a sudden sharp angle line and then continues it's tragectory but now misaligned to the scene. How could I resolve this specific area?

[@BorisFXco]

Identify the trackers that are throwing the solve off. Usually you can just use Clean Up Trackers to do that. There may have been something in the image throwing it out. A good clean should fix it. In that section check that you have enough trackers covering the area. You may need to create a few feature trackers yourself.

[@BrodyMcLean-n9u]

please help with solving for anamorphic lens distortion

[@BorisFXco]

We hear you. Stay tuned. Something interesting is coming for you in the near future.

[@glmstudiogh]

A quick question on tracking, how do you tackle a shot with lens breathing?

[@BorisFXco]

The short answer is to solve with a non-fixed lend length and animated lens distortion. The longer, better answer is found in the manual. There are whole sections dedicated to lens breathing, with special attention paid to anamorphic lenses in the Anamorphic Shots Guide pdf. If you do a search for "breathing" or "Strategies for Animated Parameters" in the main user guide, you'll hit the right sections for the Lens and 3D Solver rooms.

[@glmstudiogh]

@@BorisFXco thank you. much appreciated

[@AntonLukhash]

У вас дар преподавания - лаконично, чётко и понятно. 16 минут заменяют час

[@BorisFXco]

Thanks so much!

[@blackman96ify]

I’m buying syntheyes tomorrow

[@BorisFXco]

That's great. Welcome to the community. Part 4 of this introduction series will be available by then too! We also have a wealth of other tutorials here : borisfx.com/videos/?tags=product:SynthEyes&search= And join our SynthEyes Discord channel : www.borisfxdiscord.com/

[@diegobarrios1090]

amazing!!!

[@jamaljamalwaziat1002]

For Who those dont know this man is a legend at matchmoving

[@mikegentile13]

yes a LEGEND!!!

[@带鱼带鱼]

Hey there, sorry to bother you, but do you know where I can set the focal length on this camera? I haven't found any explanations about it. Could you give me a hint? I'd really appreciate your reply.

[@BorisFXco]

In the Solver page you can set the camera to have a Known Focal Length and Field of View. Change the selection from the Default "Fixed, Unknown" to "Known" or "Fixed, with Estimate". Usually you are better off letting SynthEyes try to work out the exact Focal Length. Because of the nature of lens manufacture, the length listed on the lens will probably not be exact. Matthew talks about this more in a later chapter. Hope that helps.

[@带鱼带鱼]

@@BorisFXco Thanks for your reply! I'm really looking forward to the update of the course.

[@ohadkidan]

amazing!

[@MRCO._.AE.]

Hello, When I try to purchase the sapphire plugins it says, " Your card was declined for making repeated attempts too frequently or exceeding its amount limit." even though I have over the limit of the price on my bank. I would love to purchase your plugins but I need your help.

[@BorisFXco]

Have you created a ticket with Boris FX Support? support.borisfx.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[@youtubi123youtubipel]

Great software! I wish I got more jobs that require tracking because I enjoy the process a lot xD Question: about the lens calculation, you changed from "Classic" to "Std Radial 4th Order", but explained only that is "better" than classic for spherical lenses, which I guess it's the most common type of lens we work with (drones, cellphones, DSLRs), right? So, for most of our jobs, can we just change straight up to this last method? And then, why is it not the default one?

[@BorisFXco]

Great comment. Not all established pipelines are ready to take on the latest and greatest improvements, so changing default behaviour is never a decision we take lightly. Maybe we can add this as a preference. And yes, spherical lenses are the most common lenses we're surrounded by. We also have anamorphic lenses, commonly used in cinema, which we have to approach differently, hence the specific anamorphic models.

[@po9569]

is syntheyes better than 3Dequalizer and keentools?

[@MatthewMerkovich]

In the words of a cg sup friend at a huge multi-national VFX company, “In order to make SynthEyes as good as 3D Equalizer, you’d have to cripple SynthEyes!” 😂 And as far as Keentools goes, my company has been hired numerous times to track jobs where Keentools just failed. It’s a very niche tracking tool with limited applications, where SynthEyes is capable of handling anything.

[@bradfab_fx]

So long Mocha hello Syntheyes

[@BorisFXco]

Luckily they do different things, so there is room for both in your toolkit 😁

[@worthless6262]

hi how can i import the exr formates sequens, i just can import the jpg now, any setting for this issue?

[@BorisFXco]

The current version of SynthEyes supports .exr files. Just select the __first__ image in your sequence and SynthEyes will take a little while to index the rest.

[@worthless6262]

​@@BorisFXco ok got it, i am using version 1903, it's kinda old now, so no way to get ride of this issue but update the APP?

[@BorisFXco]

I don't know about that version. It's before our time I'm afraid.

[@SlomoVFX]

please do a new anamorphic lens tracking!

[@BorisFXco]

Great suggestion. This is very high up in our tutorial queue!

[@tubelator]

It is a good program but GUI is so unfriendly. And you need to know your sh*t when working with syntheyes! It's for the pro's.

[@BorisFXco]

Hopefully that's what this series is going to help with. If you're just doing regular solves, you'll be in and out with minimal effort. Making the GUI more friendly for newcomers is high on our wish list. To dive down deep into the features, there will be a learning curve, like with every bit of software.

[@MatthewMerkovich]

I'm now asking people: what specifically about the GUI do you find unfriendly? I'm genuinely curious.

[@letitallout123]

Why can't all of these be 1 button click?

[@Sairawkerh]

4/10 cause there are many thing to click only for a short frame

[@BorisFXco]

Thanks for the rating. If you watch the rest of the series, hopefully all these pieces will start to make more sense as an overall workflow.

[@gogabeniashvili7232]

there are so much convoluted terms... Just call it Auto track why call it summery? never encounter this in any tracking software... like why? you want to look sophisticated?

[@BorisFXco]

It's just a term we inherited. It does do Auto tracking, but that page does more than that too. I'm not saying I disagree with you that it is a bit odd, but I can guarantee it wasn't to look sophisticated 🙂🙂🙂

[@MatthewMerkovich]

Just saw your comment, which I found hilarious. I actually put that dictionary definition in there to somewhat jokingly justify the naming. It is awkward. I would count on the labelling of things, and the documentation itself, to become more simplified. For the time being, SynthEyes might have some awkward naming, but there isn't a shot it cannot track. 😉