Class 12

Not much progress to show due to the lack of progress I have been making with tracking. I don't really know what I'm doing wrong for some of them as I have tried getting the solve below 1, keeping it between 1.2-1.3, combining it with user tracks, relying only on user tracks (gave me a low solve but still didn't stick). I may just end up keyframing the camera by hand.

I have also revisited door 4 when the camera is backing away from it. The scale of it didn't look right in the last video so I made it match more with its location when the camera is moving in a circle.

when moving in circle when backing away

I thought they were relatively in the same spot before, but I played more withe position in Nuke and I believe this matches better. The only problem is how close the camera will have to start in order for it match. I feel that if I start closer for this door, I would need to start closer for the first door as well.

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video featuring a couple of my user tracks that somehow still resulted in slipping

As I was typing this, I thought of something that I'm not too sure will work but will be trying in class tomorrow. What if I stabilize the footage (and project it the way you would with a matte painting to get the parallax) and then make the camera move myself. I would only do that for the shots where the camera is moving away from the doors. I would probably have to do it for all 3 just for consistency since the new camera movement would be a lot smoother. Then take those new cameras into Houdini to render out the doors.

I am also going to try stabilizing the shot that moves in a circle just to see if that is easier to track. I'm also going to start the process of tracking all the doors individually for those 2 shots.