Easy Camera Tracker Addons Blender 5.0

Easy Camera Tracker Addons Blender 5.0

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Possibly the easiest and fastest automatic camera tracker for Blender.

Camera tracking (or matchmoving) is extracting the camera movement from a video so that you can add 3D elements to your shot. Doing this manually in Blender is very time consuming. This addon automates the entire process.

Features

• Easy to use, 100% automatic
• Video conversion and trimming
• Easy scene orientation
• Automatic object masking - New
• Track shots with only rotation - Beta

For advanced users:

• Track zoom shots
• Undistort video (for compositing)
• Manual tracking settings

And a lot more useful features to quickly setup your 3D scene.

Easy

A simple user interface makes it easy to choose the best tracking settings and trim your video. And tracking is done in the background so that you can keep working.

Fast

Shots are tracked in minutes (or even less) depending on the shot and speed of your pc. Drone shots are tracked fastest but handheld shots can also be solved quickly.

Video: 5 seconds, 25fps, 3840x2160. Tracked in 30 sec. i5 13600k, 64gb, RTX 4080

Video: 5 seconds, 30fps, 1920x1080. Tracked in 19 sec. i5 13600k, 64gb, RTX 4080

Video: 5 seconds, 25fps, 3840x2160. Tracked in 1 min 57 sec. i5 8265u, 16gb, GTX 1050

Auto scene setup

After your video is tracked:

• an animated camera is created that moves exactly with your video.
• an image sequence is created from your video and set as the camera background.
• a point cloud is created to help reconstruct your scene.
• render settings are set to match your video (resolution, fps and color profile)
• camera orientation set easily
• a floor can be generated with the video projected onto it.

Suitable video

Some videos are not suitable for camera tracking because a lot of features need to be detected and matched between frames.

Your video must have:

• a moving camera (tracking shots with only a rotating camera in beta)
• at least some parallax (more info below)
• trackable detail (not just a clear sky or bare scene)

and no (or as little as possible):

• moving objects (like people, water, cars or windy nature)
• motion blur
• depth of field
• reflective of transparent objects

The addon will track most videos just fine that have some moving or glossy objects, motion blur or depth of field. Just keep these tips in mind when shooting video you'd like to track, for the best results.

Parallax

Parallax is how nearby objects seem to move faster than faraway ones when the camera moves. It's important for 3D tracking because it helps the software see depth and track the camera correctly. (Shots with only a rotating camera can also be tracked automatically using Blender's internal motion tracker under the hood, which is a beta feature.)

Undistort

Most videos have some lens distortion, while Blender renders are perfectly straight. This addon can export an undistorted image sequence from your footage, making it easier to match and composite your 3D scene. Later, you can reapply the original distortion if needed so everything blends seamlessly.

Requirements

• Blender 4.3 or newer (Blender 5.0 Compatible)
• Windows 10/11 or MacOS 13+ (Apple Silicon M-processor only, not Intel)
• For fast tracking: a fast CPU and lots of RAM
• For faster tracking: a Nvidia GPU (Windows only)
• A suitable video

Under the hood

This addon uses the amazing open source structure-from-motion (SFM) software Colmap to resolve the camera motion and create a 3D point cloud. Colmap has been in development since 2016 and powers many well known photogrammetry and gaussian splatting (3DGS) tools like Postshot and Meshroom.

Those tools need to resolve the camera (position, rotation and zoom) for each frame to reconstruct a 3D scene. That's why these can also be used as the backbone for camera tracking!

This addon also uses FFmpeg and FFprobe to get data from your video (like duration, fps and resolution) and convert it to frames since Colmap needs an image sequence to perform its calculations on. You can also switch from the 'Main tracker' to the 'Alternative tracker' which will use Blender's internal motion tracker under the hood to solve the camera motion. This allows you to also track shots with only a rotating camera (like a tripod shot). Note that this feature is still in beta.

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