Chapter 10. Camera Tracking
Nuke 6.0v1 introduced the much-anticipated Camera Tracker to Nuke. The Camera Tracker enables Nuke to extract the camera location and movement from a moving shot. It uses a lot of tracking points, also called features, which are generated automatically. Then, through calculations of the parallax movement of different planes, it can extract the camera information, which includes its location and rotation on every frame as well as its field of view (parallax is explained in the following note). The tracking points used to create the camera information form a point cloud, a representation in 3D space of the location of each of these points.
The CameraTracker node is only available in NukeX—a more expensive license ...
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