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How to use CAMTRACK AR 3D TRACKING with your CINEMA CAMERA in UNREAL ENGINE 5

A hands-on walkthrough of rigging CamTrack AR to a cinema camera and feeding that tracking data into Unreal Engine for a composited shot. Covers calibration, common tracking drift, and checking the result on set.

Hethfilms · 24 min · Intermediate · UNR · Unreal Engine · 2023

What you take away

Calibrate and verify a camera tracking rig before trusting its data on a real shoot.

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Kit for this lesson

Panasonic LUMIX S5 IIX — The S5 II with raw out and ProRes internal
Sony a7 IV — The all-round full-frame hybrid
Canon EOS R6 Mark II — The affordable full-frame RF hybrid
Nikon Z6 III — Partially stacked sensor, N-RAW internal
Fujifilm X-H2S — Stacked APS-C, F-Log2, open gate 6.2K
G.Skill 64GB DDR5-6000 kit — The floor for 4K raw with effects

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