PatrickFaith
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I'd like to know how people are using the moco mode in weapon, I've finally got around to doing my genlock and timecode integration to my camera motion capture and actor performance capture system. I decided to actually read the red weapon manual all the way through to figure things out, and found there is a ton of MOCO options built into the camera. LMAO, I had no idea when this was added.
Anyway I have a ton of basic questions of moco configurations, also what are people exactly doing. For my system both the motion capture and performance capture systems are on a 240 fps capture rate, while the camera is at 24 fps . I have two weapons which can be thought of as taking shots into a matte (i.e. the weapons are not in a 3d rig, but aimed seperatly then merged into a vfx matte somewhat like how the original star wars mattes were done). Also the camera is normally captured on a m15 or jib, I only rarely use stepper motors for motion capture, so is more similiar to Camerons/Jacksons virtual camera but with Woven weapon on the virtual camera handle. Also I have a main computer that is recieving a LTC, attemping to sync everything with once per second hand shakes.
So some of my questions are:
1) I'm not sure I understand all the Moco frame options on the weapon, that double sampling I'm a bit confused on, also I am attemping to stay at 180 degree shutter so the sampling rate stuff gets tricky. Also even with the weapon wovens speed, it's hard for me to get to 96 fps, so I'm attempting to keep everything at 24p.
2) With all the new weapon stuff, it would be really nice for the timecode and genlock of the weapon camera's to be fully synced wirelessly since my camera's are shooting different angles into that "vfx" matte I was refereing too. I'm trying to keep cost down though, so can handle cables, but I really need to understand options in how to get a set wide meta data system going with timecode, genlock and all the other metadata.
3) I've kind of given up on exactly syncing the 240 fps system to the camera, so doing a "jamming" on once per second boundaries using LTC. I'm woundering the best way of connecting the camera system to a master clock that outputs the LTC to the computer system.
I'm probably even asking these questions wrong, so just knowing how people are using Moco with various use cases is very useful for me.
Anyway I have a ton of basic questions of moco configurations, also what are people exactly doing. For my system both the motion capture and performance capture systems are on a 240 fps capture rate, while the camera is at 24 fps . I have two weapons which can be thought of as taking shots into a matte (i.e. the weapons are not in a 3d rig, but aimed seperatly then merged into a vfx matte somewhat like how the original star wars mattes were done). Also the camera is normally captured on a m15 or jib, I only rarely use stepper motors for motion capture, so is more similiar to Camerons/Jacksons virtual camera but with Woven weapon on the virtual camera handle. Also I have a main computer that is recieving a LTC, attemping to sync everything with once per second hand shakes.
So some of my questions are:
1) I'm not sure I understand all the Moco frame options on the weapon, that double sampling I'm a bit confused on, also I am attemping to stay at 180 degree shutter so the sampling rate stuff gets tricky. Also even with the weapon wovens speed, it's hard for me to get to 96 fps, so I'm attempting to keep everything at 24p.
2) With all the new weapon stuff, it would be really nice for the timecode and genlock of the weapon camera's to be fully synced wirelessly since my camera's are shooting different angles into that "vfx" matte I was refereing too. I'm trying to keep cost down though, so can handle cables, but I really need to understand options in how to get a set wide meta data system going with timecode, genlock and all the other metadata.
3) I've kind of given up on exactly syncing the 240 fps system to the camera, so doing a "jamming" on once per second boundaries using LTC. I'm woundering the best way of connecting the camera system to a master clock that outputs the LTC to the computer system.
I'm probably even asking these questions wrong, so just knowing how people are using Moco with various use cases is very useful for me.