View Full Version : Motion tracking plugin?


Graham Hickling
August 15th, 2008, 07:46 PM
I asked this in the Digital Compositing thread but got no response: are there any plugins that provide for motion tracking within Premiere Pro CS3?

Thanks.

Jiri Fiala
August 16th, 2008, 02:09 AM
I don`t think there is.

May I ask what would you do with the tracking data in Premiere? It`s not exactly a compositing app.

Graham Hickling
August 16th, 2008, 03:43 PM
I sometimes do greenscreening directly in Premiere, and it would be handy to have the greenscreen layer track the background.

Boris Continuun actually has a Matchmove plugin included in its Premiere package, but amusingly when you apply it a message pops up saying something along the lines of "Sorry - we havent got tracking working in CS3 yet"!

Jack Zhang
August 16th, 2008, 06:50 PM
You could try Matchmover Pro, This thread shows the results of a HV20 matchmove:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/hdv2-hv-series-sample-clips/102878-hv20-matchmove-shot-rex.html

Jiri Fiala
August 17th, 2008, 04:42 AM
Offtopic:

That's a nice dream you have there, Jack :)

George Kroonder
August 17th, 2008, 05:06 AM
You could try Matchmover Pro

SInce Autodesk aquired RealViz this is no longer available.

My advice is to Graham is use After Effects, that's really what it's there for...

George/

Jiri Fiala
August 17th, 2008, 05:58 AM
I second that... If you don't want to render intermediate steps, you can try Dynamic Link. It works at times :)

Jack Zhang
August 17th, 2008, 06:38 PM
Offtopic:

That's a nice dream you have there, Jack :)

I actually did go there recently.