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A quick test to see if the 17mb/s AVCHD encoding is good enough for 3D tracking, I was afraid of the rolling shutter so I've shot in SH mode, 50p (who is wonderfull)

Shot with Panasonic Lumix GH1 PAL and kit lens 14-140mm.
14mm - F.4, manual focus, handled.
AVCHD SH 1280/720 50p.

Edited in Sony vegas pro 8
AVCHD to Uncompressed (it's not the lightest way :-P) to Matchmover pro 4 to 3dsmax to After effects to Vimeo

3d lighting from a Raw picture took after the shot with a chrome ball.

The result is not perfect (some CG elements jitter due to bad manual focusing) but it give an idea of what the GH1 is capable in Matchmoving :)

I will definitely use it for my next short movie.

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  • editman plus 4 months ago
    Nice tracking and compositing. Looks real.
  • 1k0 4 months ago
    Thank you :)
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  • Andrew Reyna 4 months ago
    How hard was this to do, like how long did it take you to do the tracking?
  • 1k0 4 months ago
    It wasn't really hard, it took me about 1 hour to do the tracking by placing trackers manually, tracking them, correct, solve for camera, export it to 3dsmax.
    The automatic tracking gave awful results. The only issue was about the constant focus while shooting, I should have use auto focus :)

    You can see some glitch, because I used a 25p version of my footage for the tracking instead of the 50p version.

    It's as simple as track videos from a Canon XM2 (used in Versus II), it's just bigger :)
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  • Edward McLeod-Jones plus 4 months ago
    Very nice, had to look a second time to see what had been added in 3D! Good to know that the GH1 is usable for effects stuff. :)
  • 1k0 4 months ago
    That's what I call a compliment ;)
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  • Tony DeCoste 4 months ago
    good stuff, i rendered my first clip as uncompressed, it was under 1 minute and over 64gb! good to know that the GH1 looks good with cgi, although i don't know how to do it or know anybody who does, always good to have a gun and not need it then to need a gun and not have it
  • 1k0 4 months ago
    Now I render my clips for post-prod with sony YUV codec, less memory consuming than uncompressed but still not ideal :)
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  • The Muc 4 months ago
    is something like this easy to pick up? what programs are used? its just so cool.
  • 1k0 4 months ago
    The programs used are in the video description ;)
    I'm afraid not to be objective answering you "yes it's easy to pick up this" because it's easy for me. It depends on your technical skills, good footage etc.
  • The Muc 4 months ago
    ha..thanks. pays to read everything first. can you quickly explain the workflow for me to understand. clip to matchmover to setup trackers? then to 3dmax to add object render animations? then to AE for?

    Cheers.
  • 1k0 4 months ago
    I planed to make a post about my first impressions with the GH1 on my blog this week end, talking about picture quality, matchmoving, slow motion.
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