Anyone using the Taft plugin?

[wilky9]

Trying to do some Camera matching, and I'm wondering if anyone has used the Taft plugin by Worley, and if so, how is it? Anything better/cheaper for camera matching?

[martywalker]

Not used the Taft plugin. I saw a demo of how it works and thought there must be a less tedious way to get it nearly right.

This is a free plugin for LW that does something similar and is quite easy to use.

http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~fis_junk/plug/win/FIsCMatch-i-0_2_4.zip

Tutorial here:

http://lpul.sakura.ne.jp/CameraMatch/index.html

Regards

Martin

[3dworks]

Trying to do some Camera matching, and I'm wondering if anyone has used the Taft plugin by Worley, and if so, how is it? Anything better/cheaper for camera matching?

 

i've used it once and all i can say is: it works well, but is really a little bit complicate process to get all the coordinates as nulls into the project. the freeware (or shareware?) japanese plugin looks like a much more productive way to do the same thing, but unfortunately it is PC only, so no way to test this on my macs

 

i always hoped for someone writing an interactive LW plugin like this one for C4D (working only for 2-point and 1-point perspectives)

 

http://www.vreel-3d.de/plugins/PhotoMatch/links.html

 

there would be lot's of uses for this...

 

markus

[IC]

Thanks for the link Marty. I missed that one.

 

I do it by eye for some strange reason-never even looked for a plug in before.

[3dworks]

Thanks for the link Marty. I missed that one.

I do it by eye for some strange reason-never even looked for a plug in before.

 

yeah, mostly eye matching here too, but in some cases this can drive me really crazy, especially if you don't have a clean 2 point perspective with simple geometries and after hours of matching there's still something wrong with it..

 

markus

[wilky9]

Thanks for the replys, everyone. I actually found that Japanese plugin shortly after making this post. It works well enough, I guess. I'd appreciate some documentation, as it took lots of time to figure out how to zoom and pan around the screen. Some combination of shift and ctrl is I remember. I found that using a very simple model was the way to go, like just the front and 1 side of a building. Sure wish Worley made Taft available as a demo; I'd still like to try it.

 

chris

[martywalker]

It can be fiddly and not the most accurate especially if your bg image isn't the best. It would be great to have something similar to the C4D plugin in LW.

 

I've had limited sucess using PFHoe to do camera matching. It's worked beautifully on some images but not on others. It seems that the wider the lens the more distorted the image is and that's where PFHoe falls over. Also, it also only works with video files at 720 x 576 so there's a fair bit of fiddling about.

 

Regards

Martin

[martywalker]

That example above was a scan from a magazine. This one is from my Nikon 50mm lens. If anyone is interested this is how I went about it.

1. crop the image to a 3:2 aspect ratio

2. make a dupe at 768 x 576.

3. Put it into Premiere and make a 1 sec avi

4. Load that into PFHoe, track & solve

5. cross your fingers because it just won't work every time*

6. if you can see a grid set the origin point and rotate it to match the perpective of the shot.

7. export the lws and load it up into LW.

 

It won't everytime because PFHoe works best when it can track changes in depth. It was never meant to match perspectives from still images.

 

A trial exists for Mac and PC so give it a go. (No, I don't work for them.)

 

Regards

Martin