Match Moving Video Tutorials – 30 Hours

Here is a collection of over 30 hours of premium video tutorials on Matchmoving by Pluralsight. In order to view the videos, you need to become a member of Pluralsight.

An illustration of feature projection. Around the rendering of a 3D structure, red dots represent points that are chosen by the tracking process. Cameras at frame i and j project the view onto a plane depending on the parameters of the camera. In this way features tracked in 2D correspond to real points in a 3D space. Although this particular illustration is computer-generated, match moving is normally done on real objects.

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Background: In cinematography, Match moving is a cinematic technique that allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action footage with correct position, scale, orientation, and motion relative to the photographed objects in the shot. The term is used loosely to describe several different methods of extracting camera motion information from a motion picture. Sometimes referred to as motion tracking or camera solving, match moving is related to rotoscoping and photogrammetry. Match moving is sometimes confused with motion capture, which records the motion of objects, often human actors, rather than the camera. Typically, motion capture requires special cameras and sensors and a controlled environment (although recent developments such as the Kinect camera have begun to change this). Match moving is also distinct from motion control photography, which uses mechanical hardware to execute multiple identical camera moves. Match moving, by contrast, is typically a software-based technology, applied after the fact to normal footage recorded in uncontrolled environments with an ordinary camera.

Match moving is primarily used to track the movement of a camera through a shot so that an identical virtual camera move can be reproduced in a 3D animation program. When new animated elements are composited back into the original live-action shot, they will appear in perfectly matched perspective and therefore appear seamless.

As it is mostly software-based, match moving has become increasingly affordable as the cost of computer power has declined; it is now an established visual-effects tool and is even used in live television broadcasts as part of providing effects such as the virtual yellow-down-line in American football.

Matchmoving

Series	Title	Date	Presenter	Min
Exploring the New Features in PFTrack2015	Exploring the New Features in PFTrack2015	4/17/2015	Michael Raphaelovich	57
Getting Started in 3DEqualizer	Getting Started in 3DEqualizer	6/21/2015	Michael Raphaelovich	77
Getting Started with mocha for After Effects	Getting Started with mocha for After Effects	11/18/2009	Chris Glick	65
Introduction to Tracking in Fusion	Introduction to Tracking in Fusion	10/15/2009	Chris Glick	50
Match Moving and Compositing Pipeline in Maya and After Effects	Match Moving and Compositing Pipeline in Maya and After Effects	8/4/2010	Chris Glick	556
Removing Objects with Camera Projection in NUKE	Removing Objects with Camera Projection in NUKE	10/3/2011	Chris Glick	174
Rig Removal in NUKE	Rig Removal in NUKE	7/29/2015	Ognian Bozikov	231
Solving Common Issues with Matchmoving in PFTrack and Maya	Solving Common Issues with Matchmoving in PFTrack and Maya	12/14/2014	Michael Raphaelovich	81
Solving Multiple Shot Types in PFTrack	Solving Multiple Shot Types in PFTrack	5/7/2014	Lee Mar	194
Transforming Robot Production Pipeline Volume 7: Match Moving	Transforming Robot Production Pipeline Volume 7: Match Moving	4/1/2012	Chris Glick	146
Understanding Basic Matchmoving Techniques in PFTrack and MatchMover	Understanding Basic Matchmoving Techniques in PFTrack and MatchMover	11/4/2013	Michael Raphaelovich	97
Your First Day in boujou	Your First Day in boujou	10/14/2014	Michael Raphaelovich	81
			Total	1809