http://area.autodesk.com/forum/ The Area en Copyright 2012 2012-02-10T10:10:09+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/tracking-and-export-of-actors-head-movement-and-rotation-urgent/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/tracking-and-export-of-actors-head-movement-and-rotation-urgent/page-last/#When:09:27:06Z The help file clearly states "MatchMover computes the following: The motion of independent moving objects" but I'm having a difficult time figuring out how to do this. I need to track an actors head movement in addition to the camera. I was able to get a clean track and solve for camera. Now, how does one go about extracting the head movement and rotation so that I can constrain my 3d head geo to match inside Maya? I would think you could specify some tracks and MM would derive the motion and rotation from the solve? Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I'm under a tight deadline. Thanks, -Steve 2012-01-27T09:27:06+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/imported-video-isnt-rendering/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/imported-video-isnt-rendering/page-last/#When:08:27:14Z Hi! I created polygon plane, and imported quicktime movie, and used Image Sequence. I can see the movie in timeline. When I render a frame with maya software, I see it. When I render a frame with Mental Ray or V-Ray2.0 then I see only black plate. I tried in a new scene with one plane, and all movie type, but nothing happend. Please help me, thanks. 2012-01-08T08:27:14+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-2012-ui-problem/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-2012-ui-problem/page-last/#When:08:18:35Z Hi This afternoon I was working in Matchmover fine but after going back to it later in the evening, all the icons have disappeared. The buttons are still there but have become very thin and with no icons, I don't know what I'm clicking on. I have tried reinstalling it a few times but no luck. Has anyone else experienced this and/or know of a way to correct it by maybe resetting the UI? Screenshot attached 2011-11-02T08:18:35+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-freezing/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-freezing/page-last/#When:10:33:39Z hi im having issues with matchmover freezing, literally if i try to zoom into the footage or pan or interact with the footage in anyway other than tracking points, matchmover freezes. anybody having similar problems? or have a solution? , my images sequence caches ok but i am thinking that maybe the image sequence is just too big for matchmover to handle. 2011-10-29T10:33:39+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-2012-still-hosed/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-2012-still-hosed/page-last/#When:16:54:12Z While I think kudos look to be in order for the release of Maya 2012 it appears that nothing has been touched on MatchMover. It does not appear, at least initially, to crash and burn as much as 2011 did but I suspect that may have more to do with the updated nVidia driver I am running than anything done with MM. The cache issue is still hosed. On the 64bit version (I did not load or check the 32 bit version) you need to set your memory cache size as a percentage of your total system memory and that % number cannot exceed 2048Mb. If you exceed 2048Mb the cache will simply not fill at all. MM still works but much slower. I uploaded a screenshot on the preferences setting, a good setting (for my system) and a bad setting (for my system). I have 12Gb (1228Mb to be exact) of ram in my system. 2011-10-25T16:54:12+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover---helper-images-and-how-to-use-them/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover---helper-images-and-how-to-use-them/page-last/#When:04:33:16Z I have searched everywhere on the Internet and Autodesk forums for how to use Helper Images with MatchMover to introduce parallax into a video sequence. Most of the links lead to old RealViz documents that describe how 'simple, useful, and convenient' Helper Images are, but fail to give a working example of them. Here is what I am currently doing: 1) I load a "Sequence" of the main video footage which is a simple pan shot across a picnic area at a local park. 2) Next, I load an "Image" which contains a still shot of the same scene from another angle. (When I try to load two helper images at the same time as the RealViz documentation suggests, MM loads them both at the same frame number which puts them on top of each other and renders them useless). The single frame that I load in this explanation appears under the Images Sequences folder in the project with a different icon, and shows on the timeline at the next available frame number as expected. 3) Finally, I place 8 trackers at the same points in both the main sequence and the helper image sequence. The 8 trackers define two planes, and two arbitrary points in the scene which do not exist in either of the two planes. 4) When I solve for the camera, MatchMover ignores the helper frame, and the camera solve is awful as a result. Here are my 4 questions: 1) Does the Helper Image functionality of MatchMover work, or has it ever worked since AutoDesk took over the product? 2) What critical step is required to cause MatchMover to view the Helper Image as a simple extension of the original video sequence for the purpose of introducing parallax? 3) Why does the File/Load Image functionality exist if MM ignores additional images? 4) Who is responsible for MatchMover? How are bugs reported for the product since there is no "Report Bug" menu option like there is in Maya? I have a list of 15 easily reproducible bugs in MM that I give to my students every semester. While searching for the appropriate forum in which to post this, I actually came across a request of my own from 3 years ago asking for a MM forum. Really AutoDesk...really? 3 years? 2011-10-25T04:33:16+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/watch-the-video/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/watch-the-video/page-last/#When:04:23:04Z Hi everybody, Can anybody explain me what can I do to match the avatar movement to the garment movement? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYPLJ50axc I made the garment in a software called Marvelous Designer and the avatar is animated in DAZ Studio. Then I imported the both in Maya. The both had alredy the same motion, so I can't understant why when I open it in Maya doesn't works unified. Thanks. 2011-10-24T04:23:04+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmoving---strange-distortion-on-objects/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmoving---strange-distortion-on-objects/page-last/#When:08:58:50Z Hello if there are some people here with some experience in matchmoving would you plz check my video and tell me what the problem could be. I have this strange distortion on the object. de lens was a 28 mm nikkon. 2011-10-13T08:58:50+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/cant-open-file-error/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/cant-open-file-error/page-last/#When:14:49:25Z Hi all - have brought in a sequence, tracked it just fine. Upon export to FBX or LightWave, an error appears: "Can't open file" and then it lists the scene file just (tried) to export. C4D and Maya export, but the LW and FBX don't. Any suggestions why this happens? Mac OSX 10.6.7 2011-09-29T14:49:25+01:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-2010-lag-in-time-graph-editor-on-the-network/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-2010-lag-in-time-graph-editor-on-the-network/page-last/#When:11:16:03Z Hi guys, I have this weird problem whereby Matchmover 2010 would lag when I zoomed inside the Time Graph Editor and this only happened to [b]six[/b] of our workstations on the [b]network[/b]. However, When I unplugged the [b]LAN Cable[/b] from one of them and tried zooming in the Time Graph Editor again, it seemed to work fine & smoothly without any lag. How did this happened and how can I solve this with six workstations on the network? 2011-08-08T11:16:03+01:00