Useful Nukepedia Tools #12 Channel Hotbox by Falk Hofmann. One of the cool things is that you can export individual tracking features as “Usertracks” and use those as a 2D screenspace track. The node can only be attached once. Click to create the CornerPin2D or Transform node specified in Export dropdown. You can pick up where you left off, or start over. So now, using the new Enable button I can keyframe when the trackers are on or off, and now they won't bother to track at that point. Instantly, from that error we can see the Tracker has done a much better job. It will track the entire shot. For example, at our high peak you can see the values are red, and on our original peak at frame 165, you can see it’s more orange. Auto Write Node by Lars Wemmje. Then I will jump 25 frames and move the track in order to create a new keyframe. So, we have a very nice and fast workflow. Author Steve Wright covers the introduction of 3D particles, the enhanced spline and grid warping, the all-new planar tracker, an audio scratch track for matching audio cues to effects, and a briefing on … If you scrub along the timeline, you can see that this track is much better all round, so keyframe tracking has really helped us out here. So lets go back into the CameraTracker and create a Camera, bring up a Scene, and through this we will be able to check the integrity of this track. Being able to spot when and why a track has failed is extremely useful and will save you a lot of time in the future. This starts the keyframe tracking between the current pair of keyframes. The first thing I can do is figure out why it has gone wrong. Looking at the traffic lights, we can see the issues caused by motion blur, and actually even though it has gone red it’s a good track. To delete all of these tracks, we need to first select them. You’ll also learn that the tracker doesn’t only retrieve position data but also rotation and scale data. But we want a better and more deterministic way of solving this problem. Foundry has released Nuke 12.1, the latest version of node-based compositing software, revamping the Shuffle node, and making it possible to use companion tool HieroPlayer as a flipbook viewer.. NukeX, the extended edition of the software, gets a new Blink-based particle node, more intuitive lens distortion workflow, and updates to the Grid Warp Tracker and Cara VR tools. This creates a new keyframe at frame 113, and then starts re-tracking between our new pairs of keyframes at frames 101 and 113, and 113 and 128. More than that, compositing artists could easily … This way, you can see when the track is drifting very quickly. You are now leaving Lynda.com and will be automatically redirected to LinkedIn Learning to access your learning content. Stefan first steps through all the setting you need to know for the camera tracker node. There is also a hide progress button that stops the progress window from popping up when we are tracking. It is even possible to patch areas by connecting the tracker to a corner pin node. Then to delete them, we can either go to the Viewer and click the Delete or Backspace key, or we can use the delete tracks button here. This happens specifically when the Tracker nodes are generating preview patches of keyframes. Once I have a few keyframes, I can then analyze. Use up and down keys to navigate. To make this process more efficient, we add a colorcorrect node and increase the saturation and contrast so that the pixels stand out, therefore making it easier for the tracker node to track the pixel. We meet once a week with Skype for about half an hour to go over your assignment, answer any questions, and give you production tips. So, I’m going to do just that and skip on another 25 frames. The first thing you will notice is that we have a panel that allows us to store as many tracks as we want - we are no longer limited to the initial four. In the Shape tab, set… Explore. Everything you need is in-built and ready. To start the keyframe tracking, we go to the top and click the key track current button (Shift+C). GeoTracker makes tracking tasks much easier, so what usually have been done by a team of motion tracking specialists can be done by one of them and with less time. This problem is often caused by Nuke’s autosave functionality and the freezes coincide with the autosave frequency. Use auto-tracking for simple tracks or place tracking anchors on features at keyframes in the image. • Translate/Rotate/Scale - expect pattern translation, rotation, and scaling. This one is tricky because the man’s arm covers up the sticker. I will pick something smaller. Contemporary Art. If you’re coming from After Effects, you’ll be pleased to hear that track mattes don’t exist. In order to improve the motion path at this point, I am going to spend more time adjusting keyframes and, in fact, I can add additional ones if I need to. You would always get a keyframe on the first frame you track on, so press Shift and create your first track. One important task of compositing is motion tracking. Lens Distortion. FaceTracker is a Nuke node for facial tracking designed to work with models built with FaceBuilder. This movie is locked and only viewable to logged-in members. If you uncheck this control, the outside area is filled with the outermost pixels of the image sequence. One of the advantages of this Tracker is that it lets us have as many tracks as we like. You can see that the border of the keyframe turns orange if we are on the same frame as that keyframe. (check all that apply). We can verify this by quickly increasing the keyframe size. We are also no longer tracking the center of the ear as we were - we are now tracking slightly to the left. Once it’s done, you can play it back and see how well the track follows the pattern. So, I will go full screen and we will work in this mode. Lanczos4 provides the least sharpening and Sinc4 the most. I will expand the interface because we have some other parameters that have been hidden because of the size of the interface. Why wasn't this helpful? • on track change - only display the zoom window when a track changes. So let's now delete this track and try something more difficult. I will create a keyframe so the second pattern is clear, go forward a frame, and create one more keyframe. Under the Settings, we have a new feature called snap to markers. I will change the format. Note:  Tracking scale requires at least two tracks. smartMessage | smartLib. • if error below - use the when error < control to specify the grab behavior. As this boat comes towards us, the pattern it is trying to track has changed, so we will just nudge it along to find the next pattern. I made one already and it’s called square75, and it’s 75x75 pixels. I will use keyframe tracking to get a rough track of their positions. In this tutorial, I would like to show a combined workflow between the Tracker, CameraTracker, and Roto. We can see at the right at frame 149 that part of the ear is occluded, and then uncovered here at frame 165. Now click Track Features. This means the track has no chance of following it into the next frame, so let’s try that by tracking forwards one frame. Smooths the scale by averaging this many frames together. I am going to zoom in here and what I can do is re-position this box on one of the bad frames. Sets the order in which skew transforms are applied: Sets the center of rotation and scaling. For example, pressing the left arrow key (4) selects the next node to the left of the current node in the tree. So, there’s a quick introduction to the new Tracker in Nuke. Use the Y hotkey to connect with speed. In short - track the marker and match-move a roto (Paint) to it. You can have one track or as many tracks as you want. So yellow, to orange, to red indicates a rising error value. It shows me what I want to track, translate, rotate, and our scale. Hello, and welcome to this tutorial on keyframe tracking in Nuke 7.0. And sure enough, as the bar comes through the shot, the track bombs out completely. That’s where you set keyframes over time and let the program analyze between those. Once tracking is complete, you can drag-and-drop the scale information to link other nodes, such as the Stabilize node. There are still a few issues, for instance, I would have to rotoscope to get behind this man's arm, but the basic motion tracking is now working. We also have a new stop tracking button in the middle (Esc). So just close this track for the moment, and just look at the Roto. For best results we recommend using it with FaceBuilder. Let’s give that a try. Now, because I have this function on, re-track when keyframe is moved, this means if I make any adjustments to the Tracker between track keyframes, it will automatically fire off a re-track. • stabilize - transforms the image so that the tracked points do not move. If we go here, you can see the track is way off. If you can't find what you're looking for or you have a workflow question, please try Foundry Support. This will be a great place to try motion tracking. We are going to do the same thing: I am going to use my last good frame, my next frame which has a problem in it, my next good frame, and I will use my last problem frame. Higher values may result in a faster but less accurate track. For example, pressing the left arrow key (4) selects the next node to the left of the current node … Get the most out of Nuke's camera tracker, learn how to deal with lens distortion, interpret the point cloud, set-up geometry accordingly and texture it. Go back to the first frame, select the Read node and right mouse button click, select Transform > Tracker. What we want to do is get a better idea of how the track is doing over time, where it’s drifting, and by how much. I will fast forward. This finds each pair of keyframes and tracks them sequentially, for example, these three pairs. The thing to note about this Error Curve, which is typical of most Error Curves, is it starts off at around zero and gradually increases as the track goes on. So let’s see how we would approach this with keyframe tracking, so bring up the Tracker as normal. Sets the size of keyframe snapshots in the Viewer. Now, I have positioned the anchor box for track 1 on the first frame. Now I want to check my track. Here I have six tracks. I've had issues with the tracker for so long and was thinking "Didn't this used to be better?" Now we have this new traffic light system (show error on track), which would normally let us see where the tracks have any problems or not, but when they overlap like this they are not much use. This is actually really important when we are tracking. Hello! ... Navigate around the node tree in the direction specified. Nuke's 2D Tracker is a very powerful tool. Type in the entry box, then click Enter to save your note. Learn all about Camera tracking in Nuke. I want to undo this - Ctrl/Cmd+Z to go back to my previous version of the motion path. Note:  This control does not relate to how the image is transformed as an output, but what transforms the pattern matching algorithm utilizes to find the best pattern match. • scroll, single line only - show all keyframe snapshots in a scrolling, single line only. A high error either means the object changes appearance a lot or the track has gone wrong somewhere. Let’s pretend that we want to track the toe of this girl, so lets zoom in and create a track. For example, let’s do this track again and I will cancel it mid way. • add jitter - transform the input image by the high-frequency components of the track to increase the shake or add it to another image. Essentially, we are trying to get a lock on that point, so we know we can put an object there later on. So, already you can see just how powerful this new keyframe tracking workflow is for setting up your whole track in advance, but the really interesting things about this keyframe tracking workflow are yet to come. Exercise Files When the planar tracking data is exported with the Tracker option, it creates a…new Tracker node with the planar track data baked in.…T The four corners of the Ppanar surface become the four tracker points, which you…can then use to match, move, or stabilize images. Connect a Tracker node to the image you want to track. Displays the translation applied to the Transform widget for the current track. The integrated Camera Tracker in NukeX® and Nuke Studio replicates the motion of a 2D camera with an animated 3D camera or point cloud in Nuke's 3D space, allowing you to composite 2D/3D elements accurately with reference to the original camera used for the shot. Anyway, let’s see how it gets on with the search area that it has. You can turn off the “calculating preview” popup if you wish. As well as supporting one or two inputs … Now I would like to show you a new feature that allow us to combine tracking and roto together. Mar 16, 2015 - This is one of many ways to remove tracker markers in Nuke, using Paint. The pattern window defines exactly what will be tracked. This tutorial relies on a few things that were introduced in previous tutorials, so if you find you don’t quite get something, it’s probably worth going back to previous tutorials and having a look through them. In the Shape tab, set… Explore. If you have any thoughts on how we can improve our learning content, please email the Documentation team using the button below. You can also cmd + drag the Transform widget in the Viewer. When enabled, the track progress dialog doesn’t display during tracking. This updates and nudges the other keyframes further down. bm_CurveRemapper. This tip is just a small thing, but it nevertheless saves me … I hope it’s been useful, thanks for watching. The one I have created is the one I can instantly track, so I will press Z to track backwards. I think that will be pretty good. GeoTracker makes tracking tasks much easier, so what usually have been done by a team of motion tracking specialists can be done by one of them and with less time. Let me show you an example of this problem in this shot. Now you can see tracks within my CameraTracker, but these don’t always remain, so I’m going to use a User Track to isolate this point. I will also make the search window larger, so it captures the motion of the arm. As soon as you don’t require the offset, use the clear offset button to get rid of it. I will change the color of the Constant so it’s more interesting, like this green. In most cases, you should keep black outside checked. It immediately pushes the roto off, so I’m going to use its own transform to push it back again. The tracks selected are the ones that will be tracked when I click on track forward or track backward. New to Mocha Pro version 4 is NukeTracker node export.. Now VFX artists using NUKEand NUKEX from The Foundry can choose to export Mocha’s planar tracking directly to the tracker node with a simple, copy & paste. Initially the Constant is the same size as the project. This is especially useful when the feature you want to track is obscured or otherwise unavailable, enabling you to track another pattern to produce the required tracking data. Create another keyframe, using the zoom window to get a nice and precise lock on the nose. To create a tracking point, I can click this icon here, and while it’s active, wherever I click we get a new tracker. So I go back into the Tracker, and select track 1 and 2, right-click, and set Interpolation > Before/Linear and now those points carry on based on the extrapolation of the curve, and as you see, my Roto has continued onwards. But closer to our original frame at 149, it’s more green. The buttons with the typical playhead arrows allow us to track to the beginning or the end of the shot. It makes tracking … The error value measures the image difference between the pattern window at the current frame 165, and the track’s pattern window at the original frame 149. You will be able to exploit your 3d set-up to either create a smooth camera movement or create your own camera animation and even turn your footage into a stereoscopic shot. Now, one other point, what I need to do is ensure I have a track point up at the top here, within my CameraTracker. Tracker Setup. High track error values aren’t necessarily bad keyframes. When enabled, auto-tracking deletes manual keyframes. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at tracking footage using the 3D “Camera Tracker” node. Or we can create lots more of these. I will zoom back out. If we scrub along, you can see instantly how the track is doing. Selects the transformations that are tried on the pattern to match it to the image. Click to add a new track and anchor to the Viewer. In this post I’ve selected some parts on camera tracking from the Nuke User Guide manual and added some pictures and bolded some parts in order to make it easier to remember how to work with this node. One suggestion found. After the search window, the pattern window size is the next most important thing to set for tracking. If I click that, it color codes the motion path. Use up and down keys to navigate. As soon as I do that, I get a new keyframe, plus a motion path. True enough we can see that the two patches are fairly different. Now, with this version, there is a new zoom window right here. Note:  If Tracker fails to find the feature in the next frame, click the clearfwd button above the Viewer before continuing, or the same error is repeated. New platform. The higher the value, the smoother the result. Click the Add User Track animation button, then Link to > Track 4. The way pattern tracking works is, it grabs this pattern on one frame and then tries to match it within the search window of every other frame. In short - track the marker and match-move a roto (Paint) to it. Useful Nukepedia Tools #11 W_hotbox by Wouter Gilsing. Back in Nuke 7.0, I bring up the new Tracker. This is expected as we are not exactly tracking the pixels of the nose; we are using those of the face and the background as well. I can see my track has gone wrong, so what can I do about it? Now, with the old Tracker I would have been able to adjust the search window and that would have worked for the whole shot, but because this is keyframe tracking, the search area is also keyframed and it only adjusts it on the frame I am on. Displays the skew applied to the Transform widget on the y axis for the current track. So let’s see how Nuke 7.0 gets on. 8 years ago. Nuke Studio® comes complete with a multi-track editorial timeline that lets you playback, review and edit multi-layered sequences of video, CG and audio tracks. Another very good way is to look at the error values of a track. CameraTracker (NukeX and Nuke Studio only) is designed to provide an integrated camera … In this comprehensive course, digital compositing pioneer and Nuke authority Steve Wright introduces this complex and powerful tool to visual effects artists new to Nuke. As the name suggests, this centers the viewer around all of the selected tracks. The shuffle node is one of the first steps to working with channels in Nuke. More frames will take longer but often give better results because we get more information. This allows you to avoid problems with image quality, particularly in high contrast areas of the frame (where highly aliased, or jaggy, edges may appear if pixels are not filtered and retain their original values). Watch this video on our Vimeo channel . If we look at the zoom window, we can see the track does not exactly follow the tip of the nose properly. • Notch - remapped pixels receive flat smoothing (which tends to hide moire patterns). Note:  The transform control must be set to none when calculating tracks. When enabled, the associated track anchor in the Viewer is used to track a feature from the input. So I go back to tracking and if I select one track, you will see we have a zoom window that shows us in detail the size of the track. Collaboration, speed and efficiency Easily collaborate with others, whether you’re sitting side by side or across the globe. You can see we chopped that mountain of error in half. In the Shape tab, set… Mar 16, 2015 - This is one of many ways to remove tracker markers in Nuke, using Paint. This is the recommended setting and shouldn’t need changing in most circumstances. You see, the track is not quite on the circle of the tattoo, so move the Tracker to where it should be, let go, and allow it to re-track. The Tracker has been updated for Nuke 7 and is much more powerful and easier to use. Now, I just need something to match-move. Once tracking is complete, you can drag-and-drop the translate information to link other nodes, such as the Stabilize node. • CornerPin2D (use transform ref frame) - creates an expression linked CornerPin2D node that warps the image according to the relative transform, using the frame specified in the Transform tab as a reference. 2d trackers can be helpful to keep Roto shapes in position. Note:  Tracking rotation requires at least two tracks. The area that was red has now turned green, but this has flagged up a new red area. The color of each point on the motion path indicates the error value generated by the node and the error represents the confidence with which the node has identified the pattern for that frame, with the patterns established by the keyframes. Alright, so I’m back and I have improved the motion path. Nuke 12.1: new Shuffle node, plus Hiero as a flipbook viewer Nuke 12.1 adds a new Shuffle2 node, intended to replace the old Shuffle and Shuffle Copy nodes for selectively remapping or replacing colour channels within footage. The perfect fit for … Lens Distortion: Set to Unknown Lens and tick Undistort Input. In this tutorial, I am going to go back to basics, and show you how to spot problems with your tracks and figure out what your track is doing. If you’re working with a live tracker in your Nuke script, you may have seen the “calculating preview” popup. Sets the node to output when you click create. NUKE 7.0 - 2D Tracker - Keyframe Tracking, NUKE 7.0 - Keyframe Tracking Around Occlusions. One nice feature is you can Shift+click+drag to zoom in or out, so you can see the pixels really closely. However, I find the CameraTracker does not work if it is a link, so I will turn this into keyframes: Edit > Generate > Generate Keys from 1 to 60. 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