Introduction to Tracking in Toxik

Pluralsight

Course Summary

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to use the Toxik tracker to analyze footage and find the position of objects. Software required: Toxik 2010 for project files.

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Course Description

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to use the Toxik tracker to analyze footage and find the position of objects. This is an important technique for matching an image or animation's movement, rotation, scale and perspective skewing to real-life footage. We'll begin this project by doing a simple one point track using some easy footage. We'll then learn how to do a two point track on real footage. Lastly, we'll track the four corners of a television screen. We'll then learn some tips and tricks for getting a track from difficult footage and how to take our four point track and finish the shot using color correction tools to match the images together. Software required: Toxik 2010 for project files.

Course Description

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to use the Toxik tracker to analyze footage and find the position of objects. This is an important technique for matching an image or animation's movement, rotation, scale and perspective skewing to real-life footage. We'll begin this project by doing a simple one point track using some easy footage. We'll then learn how to do a two point track on real footage. Lastly, we'll track the four corners of a television screen. We'll then learn some tips and tricks for getting a track from difficult footage and how to take our four point track and finish the shot using color correction tools to match the images together. Software required: Toxik 2010 for project files.

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Course Syllabus

Introduction and Project Overview
- 1m 7s

—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 7s

Introduction to Tracking in Toxik
- 42m 1s

—Getting Started with the Tracker: One Point Tracking 7m 32s
—Creating a Two Point Track 5m 42s
—Four Point Tracking 5m 35s
—How to Edit Tracking Data Points 4m 30s
—Creating a Clean Track Using Color Correction Techniques 5m 19s
—Using the Edge Node to Clean a Four Point Track 6m 23s
—Compositing the Reflection Onto the Four Point Track 2m 48s
—Using the Cc_basics Match Features to Dim Reflections 4m 10s