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Flair Starts Talking To Bou-Jou and SceneGenie
| A recent industry trend has begun marrying motion tracking with motion control, and Mark Roberts Motion Control software Flair is keeping pace. The rapid advance of motion tracking is creating an accurate and cost-effective way to mix 2D film footage with 2D/3D CGI elements. With motion tracking, your camera position in space can be calculated if you only have 2D footage. Once you know your camera or position path, you can easily add in CGI foreground and background elements into the live footage. The marriage of motion tracking and motion control takes this a step further. Shots created with a "wild" camera, or even library footage, can be exported to Flair and repeated by a motion control rig to add extra "live" elements. For example, take a famous scene from an old movie and use motion tracking to get the camera path. Then feed the camera path into a motion control rig shooting an actor against blue-screen. The actor can be instantly and seamlessly composited into the old footage. Flair, the Mark Roberts Motion Control software, can now interface directly with two new key players in motion tracking software, Bou-Jou and SceneGenie, with files transferred directly between them. |