Camera Tracking - Advanced Cleanups in Blackmagic Fusion 

Yah, I'm with you... there were a lot of moments where I was like, "Why?" or "How, do you know that is good enough?" Impressively fast but for learners, too fast.

Agreed. I enjoy learning more about the power of Fusion, and love Emilio’s tuts, but often just don't understand 'why' some of the tools and combinations do what they do. Been searching but can't seem to find any deep dives with simpler to grasp examples for tracking + projections, which would enable one to apply in other situations.

It's a great effort of time, mostly. My day job takes almost all of it. Sadly. I have considered the idea in the past tho.

@@millolab I'm sure many people would appreciate to learn from your courses, cuz there are very few advanced courses. Most of them are for beginners( In any case, thank you for your tutorials for fusion community! I hope someday we'll see a full course from you! :3

it's already on. :)

Your imagination! 😊

I'm sure there will be that in most common situations with manual assistance for more tricky unusual shots. Similar how we see it in Photoshop with new Generative Fill AI.

It's a possibility. Luckily that time has not came yet... and I don't think it's happening in "a few months" though.

@@millolab What are your thoughts on using MochaPro for clean up in this example?

@@KrunoslavStifterMocha is a planar tracker. So you’ll lose all the nuances of the sand not being a simple “plane”. You could try and use the mesh warp instead but I feel the 3D tracking kind of technique will give the best result. Also, this is an easy example. You can use this concept in way more complex scenes!

@@millolab I see. So basically if I understand you correctly, this is better method than MochaPlaner tracker in situations where planes are not just flat surface? What about something like Mocha's "PowerMesh" or similar method? That would account for uneven surface. Would that be viable option? I'm a little less familiar with projections and complex things so for now I'm curious to go with simple methods, if they are viable option off course. I've seen your tutorials on smart vectors and that blew my mind, but I'm still learning Fusion so I'm not in that skill level yet, although I can appreciate the results for sure.

I'm just changing the size of the 3DPlane to fit the part of the image I'm interested to.

Yes, Mocha mesh warp can do this specific shot aswell. But the purpose of the tutorial is to showcase a technique that you can use in way more complex scenarios where any kind of planar or mesh warp trackers would fail.

what steps are you missing?

I suggest you to watch also the Syntheyes part. The process it's basically the exact same when in Fusion. The lens distortion is the only thing that differs. Syntheyes uses STMaps, while in Fusion you need to use the LensDistort node.

@@MillolabTuts Sure, I did my best with that but got stuck. I wasn’t far off but encountered several issues. Will have another go soon. Cheers