Uni-3d's video: Motion Tracker Comparison - MatchMover Maya Live Mocha After Effects

http://uni3d.com - I was curious about how different tracking solutions compare to one another. Recently for a class I teach I had spent considerable time poking in these 4 tools and caught the vibe they were not equal. After these tests I can at least quantify my suspicions. In most of these cases the track could have still been saved/used with a bit of manual adjustment and restarting the track with an updated or resized target or perhaps deleting odd frames that jump, but this test was to determine in a simple one-click track what these packages can do. When comparing tracks/grades the video capture of the tracking has been adjusted to 10:00 regardless of actual tracking time. I also conducted these tests as a way to compare MatchMover directly to Maya Live, a feature now missing in Maya 2011, replaced by MatchMover. In general MatchMover is a more featured software, though I always felt it was less accurate at point tracking than Maya Live. I suppose I'll be keeping my older Maya around for a while yet... Interesting to note is that Mocha for After Effects, another somewhat new addition to a standard digital tool kit stole the show for sheer quality. It is ideally a surface tracker, intended to track entire planar faces of objects. I often asked it to track tiny pieces despite having a surface it could use, in order to keep things fair between software. It still beat all with a decent margin, though it took its' time to work that carefully. The background music is "Dusk in LA" by CCMixter user rocovaco http://ccmixter.org/files/rocavaco/31369