Your detailed explanations are so helpful, I'm truly grateful.

I think the biggest thing I was missing (aside from the sensor size being off) was not taking multiple passes at the auto track. I was unaware that was even an option from the tutorials I had been following, but it makes a ton of sense. I think going through and deleting tracks is the next piece that I need to get better at understanding.

I appreciate all of the help you've given me throughout this project and will post the final result in this thread once it is client approved and live. For now, the first review went great!

Best.
-Zack

Thank you so much! You were spot on with the lens (a CN-E 50mm). After taking a look through and relinking the texture i just have a few follow up questions:

• Is the cause of my track not being reliable because of that sensor size difference? I'd love to recreate the track you got on my own so I can understand exactly where I messed up.
• You mention applying the Magic Bullet Pro Mist in post. Is there an option to render out this filtration look as it's own render? I'm pretty new to Magic Bullet, so I'm not sure the correct workflow for using it.

Thank you so much for all the help on this project. I feel like I'm learning a lot, but it's great to have a reliable source for any roadblock I hit.

Best.
-Zack

@Dr-Sassi thanks for the detail and all the helpful links!

I'm taking a look at the lens distortion as we speak, now that I have a very basic recreation of the camera move with my RS Camera. I think I'm still a little green here in shooting for tracking, but I hope that what I captured is good enough to work with.

I sent you a project file via dropbox to the email you provided. Hope to hear back from you soon!

Thanks.
-Zack

Thanks for the response. A lot of this sounds familiar, coming from a camera background, but I have a few follow ups:

• I think I'm still a bit lost on the "Lens Distortion Workflow" differences between Camera Tracker and Redshift. Let's say I am able to get a clean C4D track (or at least tidy up a jittery track)... is there a way to take those key frames and apply them to a Redshift Camera? The ability to match lens filtration (we were using a promist to get a little bloom) as well as really dial in the focus offset and DOF (mostly to get some fall off on the back of the 3D object) is the reason I'd like to finish my render that way.

• At this point I managed to loosely recreate the shot with simple key frames to a Redshift Camera. The only reason I have this luxury is because it is a mo-co dolly out, so really it's just two keyframes along the z-axis. It is not EXACT and I've had to do a little bumping when compositing the 3D render in AE, but it's pretty darn close. I've basically been using the footage as a background object and dialing in my ease of keyframes on either end to match the movement. Is there a better way of doing this?

• Lastly, I'd love to send you a project file but this is a project for unreleased product, so I can't send a link in this forum. Is there a chat function where I can send?

Thanks again!
-Zack

Like the title says, I have some footage shot on a C500ii that i'm trying to use as the base to add a 3D model. I've hit a road block where I can get a decent track but I end up with some jitters still.

Is there a way to eliminate certain keyframes within the track?

The second piece of this is that I would like to render this via Redshift. Will the solved camera work for this or is there a way to apply that tracked data to a RS Camera? I have not been successful in trying to emulate the DOF with the solved camera which is a big piece of helping this blend with the original footage.

Any help is appreciated!

@Dr-Sassi Thank you for the great detailed breakdown. This is all making a ton of sense, and I've been able to get the updated packaging mechanicals brought in and they're looking fantastic!

Cheers.

@Dr-Sassi I received it and have been working through bringing the texture into redshift and adjusting to get close to photorealism. I can't think you enough for the help on remodeling this tub.

I would love to know the process of how you traced the spline to recreate the tub. I think I understand it on a high-level, but I still would love to understand how the UV is wrapped now.

I'll share a render when I get a bit further along in the project. For now, I'm just building a seamless and giving it a nice studio lit look. But eventually it will be making it's way into live action footage.

Cheers.
-Zack

Hi there, I recently posted to the old forum and had some back and forth with Dr. Sassi. I wanted to bring that conversation to this new forum and hopefully continue the discussion.

Here's a link to the dropbox folder I originally sent: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/gkl9ft8cwb3nhtgpc3n6o/h?dl=0&rlkey=gh64r5lhmqirttc950u0tg4ju

The issue I'm running into is that the lid and base of the container do not line up properly. I'm currently just using .pngs for the materials but eventually will be animating the leaf pattern in AE and applying it as a .tiff sequence to render out with the tub in C4D.

Happy to share out the project file, but I know Dr. Sassi was already taking a look at it.

Thanks in advance!
-Zack