11 Responses to “Warp Speed Workflow #6: First Look: Motion Tracker in Motion 3”

1. 1 jung kyoung ho
   June 5, 2007 at 11:51 pm

   thanks, great

2. 2 Philip Allen
   June 6, 2007 at 5:27 pm

   Great demo! Let’s see more. How about more from Soundtrack Pro.

3. 3 R Robinson
   June 6, 2007 at 7:10 pm

   Other (automatic, even) motion tracking and analysis, done on a Mac, TEN years ago:

   http://www.channld.com/spid.html

4. 4 Nathan Apffel
   June 6, 2007 at 10:00 pm

   Nice work! That will be a huge timesaver!

5. 5 Norm Bearrentine
   June 8, 2007 at 11:49 am

   Great video, Josh. Guess I’m going to have to upgrade sooner than I thought, and I’ll be back to see what further instruction you have.

6. 6 Mark Hewitt
   June 12, 2007 at 11:46 am

   Josh,

   I have a question? I want to use a green screen in a set but not sure the best way to make the object move while panning the camera. For example, if I make a fake window with my green screen how can I make footage in the window change as the camera changes? Is Motion 3 a solution for this or how can it be done?

   Regards,
   Mark

7. 7 Rick
   June 15, 2007 at 4:08 pm

   Amazingly BAD motion tracking! Can’t belive it gets lost so easily. Goes to a highlight on the girl’s arm instead of a blazing white light? After Effects does this waaay better. I’m totally surprised at Apple’s incompetence here. Motion is great.. but Motion Tracking really sucks.

8. 8 Ron
   June 18, 2007 at 9:20 am

   If you are not satisfied with the tracking and own a copoy pfhoe you might get a better automatic track than you get in motion. pfhoe now supports the export of motion tracking data for import

   here the email Ireceivedinto motion 3

   cheers

   We are pleased to announce support for Apple’s Motion 3.0 within PFHoe™ and PFHoePro™. PFHoe/Pro offers tremendous amounts of power via a very simple, intuitive interface. A series of Wizards guide users through importing, setting up footage and extracting 3D camera information. By explaining the parameters that need to be set in order to successfully track a shot, the ‘one click’ tool set provides an environment that will deliver great results to even the most inexperienced user. Already a popular application for consumers and professionals alike, PFHoe’s support for Motion 3.0’s new 3D environment further improves the suitability of this product for its wide range of customers.

   PFHoe 2.1 is available from http://www.pfhoe.com as a Universal binary for £49, with PFHoePro available for £99. Existing 2.0 users can download a free export plug-in.

9. 9 Lynn
   August 1, 2007 at 1:51 pm

   Hi -

   Thanks so much for this great tutorial. We are trying it out ourselves, but one thing isn’t happening the same way it does in your tutorial. When we analyze the motion, the crosshairs follow along but the keyframe path does not appear. Can you tell us if maybe we have to change a setting or something?

   Thanks,
   Lynn

10. 10 Josh
    August 1, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    You can enable/disable overlays with Cmd /

11. 11 Mike F
    September 12, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    Why didn’t motion 3 just go the whole way and give us 3D graphic animation like 3D studio, but with the easier motion interface? It’s nearly there now and surely it will be in motion 4… reckon they’re holding back to have something to sell next time! I’ve also found a few glitches in my motion 3 upgrade, sometimes the animation key doesn’t set keyframes when you move position and the ‘nudge’ (apple arrow keys) doesn’t move position like it did before. Also I can’t export anything on the new soundtrack! Anyone else find anything wrong with their upgrades?