SynthEyes has extensive tools not only for calculating distortion during solving, but also for lens calibration from lens grids. Rectify Lens Grid for “just fix it” unmodeled lens distortion correction, especially for complex lens types. Tilt detection and correction if grid spacing and camera-to-grid measurements are available. Lens Master Calibration system handles linear, inverse linear, anamorphic lenses, and four fisheye lens variants.
SynthEyes features an extensive supervised tracking feature set with high-performance automatic tracking, 3D planar tracking, AprilTags, cleanup, and add-tracker tools.
SynthEyes offers advanced tracking capabilities, including automatic tracking, 3D planar tracking, AprilTags, and tools to clean up and add trackers
Track both cameras and moving objects in your footage
Use a Geometric Hierarchy tracking system to track objects with complex relationships
Precise 3D and 2D Planar Tracking with mask options
Benefit from neural-based tracking methods and handle multiple supervised trackers simultaneously
Tools for identifying and managing problematic trackers
Support for tracking in stereoscopic 3D
Calibrate various lens types for accurate tracking
Ideal for 360° VR shots and motion capture
Quickly solve complex, long shots
Support for different lens models, including radial-4th and anamorphic-6th
Control camera and object paths for precise solves
Achieve stable results with tripod-mounted cameras
Animated lens distortion parameters to track realistically
Flexible solver settings to meet your specific needs
Post-solve tools to clean up and fine-tune your tracking results
Solve and stabilize 360° VR footage with ease
Match to 3D set models such as lidar scans
SynthEyes 2024.1
Introducing the new “SynthEyes Advanced Lens Distortion” plugin for After Effects. Watch overview video.
Directly supports all SynthEyes lens models, animated distortion, and off-center lenses.
Export 3D meshes and textures directly to After Effects with the AE version selector set to “Beta after 2024.1.”
Updated plugins for compatibility with Apple M1/M2/M3 processors and Multi-Frame Rendering on Windows and macOS.
Automatically reduces the number of exported tracker layers based on a user-defined limit.
Supports solver-side distortion, though not identical to Fusion and Nuke’s zero-pass workflow due to AE limitations.
Properly supports shots with non-square pixels without precomps.
The Latest SynthEyes 2024.1 Features
After Effects exporter and plug-in updates:
New “SynthEyes Advanced Lens Distortion” plugin for After Effects, directly supporting all SynthEyes lens models, animated distortion, and (previously unsupported) off-center lenses and non-square pixels.
Plugins updated to work on Apple M1/M2/M3 processors and use Multi-Frame-Rendering on Windows and macOS.
Export 3D meshes and textures directly to After Effects when the exporter’s AE version selector is set to “Beta after 2024.1”.
Automatically reduce the number of exported tracker layers to a limit you set.
SynthEyes effects now appear in the “Boris FX SynthEyes” submenu of After Effects’s Effect menu.
Two-pass workflow: The background images in Camera01_3D are now a guide layer, so their undistorted then redistorted version doesn’t inadvertently appear behind ReCamera01.
Non-planar trackers are set as “shy” layers for easy hiding in the timeline.
SynthEyes Notes exported as guide layers to After Effects.
Lens workflow scripts updated to set the resolution of the undistorted image to the original image resolution, as originally intended.
Avoid unnecessary Vert.Scale error message in Nuke and Fusion exports with classic lens model and animated zoom.
Nuke export now includes the effect of the flipping and rotation selected in the SynthEyes texture panel.
Maya ASCII Updated exporter now sends the subdivision counts for SynthEyes cube, cylinder, etc primitives to Maya.
Additional testing in auto-place to always keep the scene’s final orientation close to the original orientation.
Speed up SynthEyes startup time by deferring reading colormaps until they are used.
New macOS uninstaller can deactivate a SynthEyes license, remove the application, and remove the After Effects plugins.
See the Recent Change List for all the new features and improvements.
