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Good (and bad) tracking markers

Good (and bad) tracking markers - Nuke Tutorial

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Good (and bad) tracking markers

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- [Lecturer] To begin our discussion on tracking markers removal, I thought it would be helpful to get an idea of what good tracking markers look like. You'll never know, one day you might be in charge of the tracking markers on set so you'll want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly. So starting with this one, one of the good things about this is that the tracking markers are different shapes. If tracking markers are all the same shape like all little Xs, the trackers can actually hop from marker to marker and get confused. So we got plenty of angles to lock on to. Also, there's lots of them so if we're here for a closeup there's still plenty of markers in frame. Now, ideally you set the number of markers on the backing region for each shot but that may not be practical in a case like this. We have a green psyche, we were shooting lots of stuff all day long. Some closeup, some wide so we put lots of markers everywhere. Now the down side to having lots of markers is they have to be…

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