Forum: Carrara


Subject: Using Voodoo for matchmoving with Carrara?

rendererer opened this issue on Dec 29, 2006 · 8 posts


mmoir posted Sun, 31 December 2006 at 1:28 PM

Joe, 
  I will try this again, my wireless internet isn't working right so I am on dialup.  

The tracking points in Carrara I am talking about are similar to the Voodoo tracking points that you see while  Voodoo does a track of the image sequence.  You can try the following and see if  it helps.

1.Load you sequence of images in Voodoo.
2.Choose "Tripod" in the Move type field of the Sequence image window even if Free makes more sense

  1. Load the initial camera, make sure the FilmBack numbers match the Image size of the movie you are tracking.
  2. Perform the track, if you get an error message to refine the track ,  ignore it. Don't refine the track.
    5.Save to .ma script.
  3. Make sure to Choose "all points" in the 3d Fpoints area when saving the .ma script. It is a little hard to see if this is actually selected just make sure it is. 
    7.Use V2C to convert the .ma script to a syncar file.
    8.Open the Syncar file in Carrara and point to your original avi when it asks for the target avi.
  4. It should open in Carrara with the tracking points.

I don't know if this will work for sure but it might .

Mike