One of the biggest outtakes we got from our last Mill presentation was that it’s time to start adding our CG assets into our scene, and begin set dressing the scene. So the Spice Girls have been attempting to track the camera in our footage. However, it’s been proving really difficult since we cleared the kitchen counter to film. Because of this, there isn’t really anything for Nuke to track, and we didn’t think to bring camera trackers to our set when we filmed. So we’ve been having really bad sliding problems.
We all worked together on tracking on Monday and Wednesday, and split up the shots individually for the weekend. I got shot 2, with the car circling around the table. Below are my very unsuccessful tracking attempts (please don’t mind the poorly rotated cards-among other things, I struggled to rotate them correctly):
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I was able to bring the first test to a Solve Error of 3.65, the second to a Solve Error of 1.7, and the third to a Solve Error of 0.67. I feel like the first test’s Solve Error was too high, but that the last one was too low for the track to track anything. Before tracking, I color corrected the s-log footage, and I added grade and sharpen nodes to the footage so that the footage would have more contrasts for the track to pick up on.
I’m not entirely sure where to go from here to fix this problem. I’m going to ask my group and possibly some professors for help when I can. If none of us can figure this out, then it seems the Spice Girls will have to reshoot our footage with trackers this time :(