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WRITTEN COMPONENT ENTRY Tracking Tools notes.

Summary of 2D Tracking Tools;

Adobe

- After Effects is one of the most-widely used effects solution.

Aivd

- AvidlDS and Nitro vfx tools allow for advanced compositing and tracking. DS Nitris is similar to Photoshop and After Effects. Nitro has powerful motion tracking, keying, compositing and colour correction tools.

Discreet-Advanced Systems

- Includes Flint, Flame, Inferno, Fire and Smoke. All have 2D Tracking. Inferno & Flame have 3D Tracking. Lack multi-point solutions. Lack Maya export.

Discreet – Desktop

- Paint & Effect, Paint offer Illustrator-like solutions. Effect offered compositing capabilities. These 2 programs were merged to create Combustion.

Curious gFx Pro

- Can import, composite, track and stabilise footage.

Digital Fusion

- Was at one point provided with Alias 3D.

Mirage

- Unified software allowing for the development of animated graphics and sfx.

Quantel

- Code-based comprehensive set of 2D tools.

Shake

- Shake is 2D-only. Accepts 3D tracking of complex camera moves and Shake data.

Summary of 3D Tracking Tools;

3D-Equalizer

- Original 3D tracking tool. High-end.

Boujou

- Cant track many things better.

Monet

- 4 point tracker that uses planes in place of points. Developed specifically for Cinesite to track the paintings in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

REALVIZ MatchMover

- Incorporates both automatic and supervised tracking, without limit in combining both.

ras_track

- Academy Award winning software.

TRACK

- Digital Domain’s award winning software, works with Nuke (compositing software).

The PixelFarm

- PFTrack at the core of the program. Extracts complex 3D and 2D data from footage. Has a number of applets to utilise data.

Maya Live

- Autodesk’s (previously Alias) 3D camera tracking program, widely known for producing accurate z depth solutions.