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ElectricImage
The ElectricImage importer relies on a somewhat higher level of user activity than normal, in the absence of a scripting language for EI. You can export either a camera or object path, and its associated trackers.
1. After you have completed tracking in SynthEyes, select the camera/object you wish to export from the Shots menu, then select File/Export/Electric Image. SynthEyes will produce two files, an .obm file containing the trajectory, and an
.obj file containing geometry marking the trackers.
2. In ElectricImage, make sure you have a camera/object that matches the name used in SynthEyes. Create new cameras/objects as required. If you have Camera01 in SynthEyes, your camera should be "Camera 1" in EI. The zero is removed automatically by the SynthEyes exporter.
3. Go to the Animation pull-down menu and select the "Import Motion" option.
4. In the open dialog box, select "All Files" from the Enable pop-up menu, so that the .obm file will be visible.
5. Navigate to, and select, the .obm file produced by SynthEyes. This will bring up the ElectricImage motion import dialog box which allows you to override values for position, rotation, etc.
Normally, you will ignore all these options as it is simpler to parent the camera/object to an effector later. The only value you might want to change is the "start time" to offset when the camera move begins. Click OK and you will get a warning dialog about the frame range.
This is a benign warning that sets the "range of frames" rendering option to match the length of the incoming camera data. Hitting cancel will abort the operation, so hit OK and the motion data will be applied to the camera.
6. Select "Import Object" from the Object pull-down menu.
7. Enable "All Files" in the pop-up menu.
8. Select the .obj file produced by SynthEyes.
9. Create a hierarchy by selecting one tracker as the parent, or bringing in all trackers as separate objects.
10. If you are exporting an object path, parent the tracker object to the object holding the path.
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