Office Hours

When real time tracking vs. tracking refinement is needed. Walkthrough with Unreal and After Effects. Overriding scene locators.

Finding a correct ZCam ZLog to ACES AP1 transform. Problems finding tracking features in Syntheyes. A potentially fantastic way to combine 8K 360 footage with Jetset Cine to simplify tracking in SynthEyes.

Jetset to Blender and After Effects integration. Jetset real time tracking vs. sub-pixel tracking quality.

Extensive but unfinished troubleshooting with synchronized rendering and Blackmagic Decklink card. Setting up 3D garbage mattes. Testing Gaussian splats. After Effects workflows.

UE5.3 vs 5.4 script behavior for live render preview. Using Jetset for exteriors. Lowering on-set presence. ‘Overnight’ VFX daily generation. Real time tracking inside airplanes. Proximity of cine camera lens to iPhone. Where distortion makes sense in the pipeline. Calibrating anamorphics. Gaussian splats to convey correct lighting in-phone to creatives. New phone hardware for splat rendering. Rendering comps in-engine vs external compositor. Driving greenscreen lighting from live BG render.

Debugging yellow reticule problem. A workflow for Canon RAW files before Autoshot can decode them. Media In node fragility with Resolve Fusion. On-set composite visualization workflows. Hybrid small wall/greenscreen workflows. Gaussian splats. Greenscreen depth occlusion settings. Shot templating. Interactive product visualization workflows.

Verifying paths on Autoshot Mac. Setting survey points on SynthEyes and solving shots. External SynthEyes experts. Whether or not to solve for distortion. Using Jetset to previsualize stunt sequences. Making ‘shot templates’ to re-create pre-vis shots on set automatically. Using LiDAR scanners to scan a big location and bringing that into Jetset for 1:1 previs sequence planning.

Interactive lens calibration. How panning on a tripod breaks lens calibration due to lack of parallax. Good choices for lens calibration objects. Calibration error text on the Mac that doesn’t hurt the calibration.

Transferring Jetset Cine solved calibrations between PC and Mac Autoshot. Rendering in Omniverse with the USD export. A clever workaround for handling Canon RAW footage using lightweight mp4 editing proxies. Image planes in C4D. Live on-set previews of the Jetset UI.

Rendering Cinema 4D shots in nVidia Omniverse via USD. Modifying the Autoshot pipeline to work with Resolve-generated EXRs. Best practices for editing Jetset Cine shoots. Resolve and Fusion editing and compositing workflow. The utility of tracking in a consistent 3D world. Generating a .csv of Cine source to Jetset take matches. Automatically entering Resolve metadata based on Autoshot take matching. Preferred scene locator alignment. Transferring takes with gigabit Ethernet connection.

Debugging USDZ file crashes. Fusion composites. Jetset/Maya pipeline.