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What was the comp panel resolution when you tried tracking? If I have a shot that is going to be problematic I often apply filters to increase the edge and surface detail, pre-compose, then track the pre-comp. The tracker has changed a bit in recent releases. I'm finding more accurate results without resorting to lens corrections in wide-angle shots and more accurate results when there is a shallow depth of field.
Let me run through a few screenshots of a shot that could be problematic. Here is some video from a Pocket Osmo of a bunch of goats. The lens is dirty, the exposure is less than ideal, the goats and the camera are both moving. The first pass with Detailed analysis off gives me an error of 1.82 pixels.
Turning on Detailed analysis gives me an error of 2.09. This tells me that the movement of the goats is causing problems.
After a couple of passes deleting trackers that are on the moving goats, I get an error down to about 1.80. I want it better so I pre-compose, add some effects to bring out the detail in the edges. This is what the Pre-comp looks like:
I run the track with detailed analysis off to the tracker ignores a lot of the motion in the goats and the error drops to 0.85 which is very good. I've enlarged the tracking markers so you can see them better.
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That is the kind of accuracy I want for all of my shots. If the shot of the goats had better exposure and the lens was clean I probably would not have had to go to the trouble of the pre-comp to get the error down. Unless your error is very close to 1 pixel you could have tracking errors.
If you want to share the shot that you are having the most trouble with I'll gladly take a look at it. There is almost always a way to get some usable tracking data from a shot that that has some fixed geometry in the frame.
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Hey Rick,
Thank you for the detailed response but I'm afraid this is a software issue
I will provide you with the same clip I am tracking and I will show you what happens when I track the same clip on my computer via a link.
Just so you know the tracker creates a pattern of tracking points each time this error occursā
(To even get the tracker points to show I have to click detailed Analysis or else I get the error message (Analysis solved failed)
once I click Detailed Analysis I constantly get this tracker pattern on every clip I track. Once the tracking points are there they don't stick to anything and it seems like they are frozen plus no new tracking points are ever made throughout the shot.
(notice the same pattern on all 6 videos)
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Footage Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ox5iywl10j329c2/MVI_3432.MP4?dl=0
Video showing what happens on my Computer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1kwvcqbpdmg35tg/3d%20cam%20tracker%20w%3A%20cars.mp4?dl=0
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