Andersson Technologies has announced the release of SynthEyes 2106, the latest version of its 3-D tracking and match-moving application. The headline feature is support for “AprilTags” which can automatically determine the identity, position, and orientation of special QR-code-like patterns. They can be used for aligning multiple scenes consistently, and for some simple easy moving-object tracking. Significant other features at improvements include:
- Translation options for 25 languages.
- Unicode/UTF8 support for filenames, tracker names, notes, etc.
- Major rework of prealigning/postaligning coordinates in the solver, to avoid mistakes in borderline and unlucky cases, handle more subtle alignment schemes, improve accuracy, and generally be faster.
- Better world-size selection and updating in the solver, for more consistently appropriate values and to eliminate “walking” world-size values.
- Improved handling of links from one camera/object to another, so that some more solving scenarios can be easily handled, for example two cameras in Auto mode sharing some links; both can be solved simultaneously from scratch.
- New “Coalesce closest in 3-D” tool, intended for 360VR but useful on non-360VR shots also.
- “Convert Boxes to Planes” script, ie for exporting to apps such as AE that only use planes.
Plus many more improvements and bug fixes. Find out more on the blog and in the online changelog.
