What is SynthEyes?
SynthEyes is a program for tracking 3-D cameras, also known as match movement. SynthEyes can look at the sequence of images of your live action and determine how the actual camera moved during shooting, the camera's field of view (focal length) and where various locations were in 3-D, so you can create computer-generated images that fit exactly into the photo. You can also track objects that are moving in the scene, which is known as object tracking or geometry tracking, to find out where they have moved (or are located) in the 3D environment. SynthEyes is used worldwide in the post-production of movies, television, commercials, and music videos.
What can SynthEyes help me do?
- Insert animated creatures or vehicles;
- stabilize conventional or shaky photos of 360 °;
- extend or secure a set;
- add virtual sets to green screen recordings;
- replace signals or insert images from the monitor;
- remove unwanted objects from shots; produce 360° virtual reality or stereoscopic 3D movies;
- create architectural visualizations; rebuild accidents;
- place products after filming;
- move images from one shot to another;
- add 3D cybernetic implants, cosmetic effects, or injuries to actors;
- produce panoramic scenarios or clean dishes;
- construct 3-D textured meshes from images;
- add 3-D particle effects;
- capture body movement to generate characters per computer.
What are its characteristics?
- SynthEyes offers 3-D tracking, set reconstruction, stabilization, and motion capture.
- It handles camera tracking, 2-D and 3-D planar tracking, object tracking with or without reference mesh, geometry tracking, geometric hierarchy tracking, secondary tracking, object tracking + camera, multiple shot capture, tripod (nodal, 2.5-D), mixed tripod and translation of shots, stereoscopic shots, stereoscopic shots, nodal stereoscopic shots, zoom shots, 360° photos, lens distortion, light resolution.
- A keyer simplifies and speeds up green screen photo tracking.
- The image preprocessor helps remove grains, compression artifacts, decentralization or lighting variation and improves low-contrast photos, or converts photos to 360° VR.
- Meshes can be constructed from tracking data, and their textures extracted from the image sequence, producing higher resolution and less noise than any individual image.
- A revolutionary instructor, Synthia helps you work faster and better, from natural language directions typed or even spoken.
- SynthEyes offers full control over the tracking process for challenging shots, including an efficient workflow for supervised trackers, automated/supervised combined tracking, shift tracking, incremental solution, shutter bearing compensation, a hard and soft path locking system, distance restrictions for low-perspective photos, and intercamera-to-stereo restrictions.
- The system allows you to configure complex solution strategies with a visual node-based approach.
- You can set up a coordinate system with tracker restrictions, camera restrictions, an automated ground plane location tool, aligning to a mesh, a single frame alignment system based on line, manually, or with some cold phase techniques.
- The ViewShift system lets you make object removals, combine split shots, generate animated texture maps, and more.
What can SynthEyes talk about?
SynthEyes is a tracking app. You will use the other apps you already know to generate the beautiful photos. SynthEyes exports to about 25 different programs in 2-D and 3-D. The Sizzle scripting language lets you customize standard exports or add your own imports, exports, or tools. You can also customize toolbar settings, color scheme, keyboard mapping, and viewport. Advanced clients can use the SyPy Python API/SDK.
System Requirements
Mac
Windows
Linux
