Can I use Maya Unlimited for Matchmoving?

[BigMike]

Hi there:
I've been doing 2D compositing in After Effects for the last 2 years and a year ago I took a basic Maya class and bought a student version of Maya Unlimited.
You know, it was only yesterday that I learned about Motionmatching.

All my Maya books are in storage. i've ordered the Gnomon DVD and the book by dobbert. I'll pull my books out when I get home from work.

What I am wondering is: Does Maya have all the software I need to do motion mapping right inside of it?

Just curious! THanks

[VFXTalkDotCom]

there's a product called Maya Live that is a part of Maya Unlimited that allows you to mastch 3d elements with live spots if thats the type of matchmoving you are looking for....

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...112&id=6872635

check it out, hope that helps but i think its the only tool they have in regards to tracking and camera integration between 2d and 3d scenes

hope it helps,

-jah

[mcwire305]

theres also something called MouJou which is boujou built as a maya plugin. I've never actually used it, I'm a syntheyes match mover pro fan, but from what I understand it gets the job done.

heres a link: http://www.2d3.com/html/products/moujou_overview.html

cheers!

[raaz]

hi, well Maya contains a powerful matchmove system in itself which is named as Maya Live, u can easily track any type of fotage ranging from chroma shots to normal shoots, it's based on manual tracking system, which means u have to manually place the markers onto different places to track the camera out, as far boujou is concerned it gives u manual as well automatic tracking, which made the life easiernow days of vfx artists, and the book of dobbert u r refering to, is a nice book, it gives the general tips, tricks and techniques of tracking and also how the tracking software works by leting u the the techniques of photogrametry and things like those...
so I think u must strat of with Maya live rather than going into specific tracking softwares like boujou, pixel farm track or realviz matchmover...
Feel free to ask any queries
cyaa then
byee n tc

[srproductions]

You can use Maya Live for a lot of shots. They did it on X3 I believe. But for more complex shots, you will need something like SynthEyes or Boujou. I recommend SynthEyes becuase it's extremely powerful and cheap. Let's see, ah, $400.