object tracking rotating objects

[theta]

How are you guys dealing with tracking objects that have a lot of rotation? Most of the tracking points I would use to help the solver see that there's rotation, get obscured through the shot. Is there a way to only track a point half way and still be able to translate it over to a mesh?

I'm using Syntheyes.

[milkey]

Manually animate the object, with the mesh attached to it of course. Try to keep the numbers of keys manageable. Set your animated path to a seed path or set the solver to FROM PATH mode. These two methods will provide some information for scene orientation for the solver at the beginning of the solving process and during the gaps of info.

Work with a locked camera, meaning that you have to set your camera to disabled and the focal to known. Make sure that your camera is perfectly tracked and oriented in the scene in order to make adjustments to the object.

Tell us what type of object you are trying to track and I may be able to give you extra info.

[theta]

I've gone in and set the trackers as seed points and set them on the mesh. The solution is close, but it's off in some areas and it pops in other areas. It's a label I'm tracking onto a bottle.