It can incorporate flight, waving, and tilting movements to your Blender cameras. You can use this addon if you want to add additional motion aside from the extracted camera path in your footage. Its features include adding new shots, removing all or individual shots, jumping to the next or a specific shot, indicating shot duration, showing the camera name, and locking all shots. This is perfect for projects that need frequent changing of cameras. It can also change the camera being used for each scene anytime, and even hide inactive cameras to make everything more organized. Navigating through shots will be easier because it can quickly add new shots, rename, and remove shots. It helps you manage and navigate through your camera shots and change cameras. Shotlist is another add-on that helps you save time. For projects that involve complex rendering, this addon can also help by separating complex render set-ups. It also helps in organizing your shots without saving them in different files. Through this addon, you can also choose to save frame ranges from multiple files and render all cameras that were used. Shot Manager helps in speeding up rendering time for this kind of project. When camera tracking, you might want to work on various footage that can be connected with each other. This add on is great if you want to work with multiple video files but want to save it in a single file. Overall, this addon lets you save time in making final adjustments to your camera.
You can increase the aperture to create a sharper image or change the shutter speed to produce a motion blur effect. The auto-exposure feature adjusts the brightness of the scene while autofocus adjusts where the camera should focus based on the camera’s center. Real Camera allows you to easily control real camera features such as aperture, shutter speed, focal length, auto exposure, and autofocus. This add-on lets you do the same thing with Blender’s camera. If you have experienced using a camera in real life then you’d know that it has various settings that you could adjust. This add-on can make your animations more realistic by applying calibrations to your 3D camera. When importing an object, you’d want it to appear with the same focal length and angle as the original shot. This helps when initially setting up the 3D camera in your scene. Knowing that camera tracking works with image sequences, then this add on can be easily used. It can reconstruct the camera to match the angle and perspective based on an image. This add-on is very useful in calibrating 3D cameras in Blender. There are various available add-ons that can help you with adding single or multiple cameras and also for the processing of data from the image sequence.īLAM, Real Camera, Shot Manager, Shotlist, Quake Motion Camera Shake, QuickShot, Cablecam, and Render Burst are my suggested addons for this. Once a camera trajectory is extracted, the data will be transferred to a camera in Blender in order to set up a scene. Addons for CamerasĪn important component in camera tracking is the camera.
#Blender 3d tracking series#
This article is part of a multi part ongoing series about anything Blender.Ĭheck out any other articles in Mount CG’s dedicated Blender section. Through these addons, your work can be more efficient and less time-consuming.
#Blender 3d tracking install#
You can opt to install add ons related to the adding of cameras, the scene lighting, importing of objects, and even for the tracking itself. There are multiple add-ons that you can use while camera tracking in Blender. In short, the object’s animation in the scene corresponds to the extracted camera path. This path can then be used to let you add an object to your video footage while making it appear realistic as it goes along the camera path. Camera tracking means extracting the path taken by the actual camera that was used to take the shot.
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