final

This didn't work either. I've run out of year and i still haven't managed to get anything to track perfectly. Very, very frustrating and i  will have to sort it out before 2014. The issue must either be frame rate or just doing the tracking wrong. Test objects work fine in boujou and nuke but then screw up from maya. my time management on this term has been bad, and im finding being a director alot of extra work. thats all i have to say. im a failure at tracking.

My Final Attempt.

If this doesn't track. I don't know what will and I will give up.

Hopefully this is high contrast enough to work. 

I filmed it using a 28mm lens, which may be a bit distorted but it has an USM motor in it to smooth out the jitter. The difference between it and handheld is staggering already. But I am also smoothing it in AE aswell just to be on the safe side. 

update

As you can see again without any tracking markers my little golden oscar moves around a little bit.

Museum Track update

Boujou seemed to track the scene OK. I masked off the legs of some people and put a little golden statue in. I made a cheap image sphere out of a tiff and rendered it out with a colour grade, grain and a little blur. The shadow needs to be corrected. 

Boujou VS NukeX

I've decided to focus with Boujou for the rest of the time I have left. I like NukeX for splitting apart EXR files and sorting out renders, but for this kind of work, getting out image sequences and exporting to maya, The Boujou and AE workflow is a lot faster and more friendly.

I filmed this footage inside the British Museum Aztec section. Doing this made me realise a few things.
- A steady-cam is a must.
- Focus pulls are a pain in the arse on the smaller lenses that I love for photography.
- tracking markers are a must.
- People are a nuisance and make filming anything difficult.







Im not sure what I was aiming for filming this. It wobbles all over the place and I had no idea what I was actually going to put in the scene. However this gave me a wonderful new job of "IMAGE STABILISATION"

Now. Im a patient man. But the idea of 2D tracking footage before 3D tracking it made me sick to my stomach. But apparently the new creative cloud is good for something.

The Warp Stabilizer VFX button, smoothed it all out with a single click. 

As good as this will get.

This is as good I think i can get this without using markers. I don't think its too bad. the model gets close to the camera which is often said to be a bad thing to do. But it was a good effort all the same.

Revelation

Well today it hit me. The issue with trying to position things and being unable to work out were to put them. DUH!.....tracking markers.....this is why we place tracking markers.....what an absolute idiot. I have some more footage to test, but without tracking markers I will have the same difficulty with placement. I hate myself for being so dense.