when specific circumstances are met.
Mainly issue was caused by checking ImBuf pointers, which used to fail
when some post-processing flags are changed. This was caused by the
fact that freeing old ImBuf and allocating new one could lead to new
ImBuf have the same pointer as previous one, which confuses cache.
return valid marker. If not -- let blender crash, because that means
something went really bad and silencing this isn't good idea.
Also made mask parenting to tracking data aware of clip's start frame.
- Re-arrange functions in headers and implementation file to make them
more grouped by entity they're operating with. Also order of functions
in implementation file should match order of functions in header for
easier navigation.
- Rename some functions to match conventions of naming public functions.
- Some code de-duplication, still some room for improvements tho.
- Split main 2D tracking functions into smaller steps to make it more clear.
Accidentally OpenMP was disabled in some of previous commits, re-enable it.
In contrast to start_frame (which affects on where footage actually
starts to play and also affects on all data associated with a clip
such as motion tracking, reconstruction and so on) this slider only
affects on a way how frame number is mapping to a filename, without
touching any kind of tracking data.
The formula is:
file_name = clip_file_name + frame_offset - (start_frame - 1)
Added option to use Grease Pencil datablock as a mask for pattern
when doing motion tracking. Option could be found in Tracking Settings
panel.
All strokes would be rasterized separately from each other and every
stroke is treating as a closed spline.
Also added option to apply a mask on track preview which is situated
just after B/B/W channel button under track preview.
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Major list of changes done in tomato branch:
- Add a planar tracking implementation to libmv
This adds a new planar tracking implementation to libmv. The
tracker is based on Ceres[1], the new nonlinear minimizer that
myself and Sameer released from Google as open source. Since
the motion model is more involved, the interface is
different than the RegionTracker interface used previously
in Blender.
The start of a C API in libmv-capi.{cpp,h} is also included.
- Migrate from pat_{min,max} for markers to 4 corners representation
Convert markers in the movie clip editor / 2D tracker from using
pat_min and pat_max notation to using the a more general, 4-corner
representation.
There is still considerable porting work to do; in particular
sliding from preview widget does not work correct for rotated
markers.
All other areas should be ported to new representation:
* Added support of sliding individual corners. LMB slide + Ctrl
would scale the whole pattern
* S would scale the whole marker, S-S would scale pattern only
* Added support of marker's rotation which is currently rotates
only patterns around their centers or all markers around median,
Rotation or other non-translation/scaling transformation of search
area doesn't make sense.
* Track Preview widget would display transformed pattern which
libmv actually operates with.
- "Efficient Second-order Minimization" for the planar tracker
This implements the "Efficient Second-order Minimization"
scheme, as supported by the existing translation tracker.
This increases the amount of per-iteration work, but
decreases the number of iterations required to converge and
also increases the size of the basin of attraction for the
optimization.
- Remove the use of the legacy RegionTracker API from Blender,
and replaces it with the new TrackRegion API. This also
adds several features to the planar tracker in libmv:
* Do a brute-force initialization of tracking similar to "Hybrid"
mode in the stable release, but using all floats. This is slower
but more accurate. It is still necessary to evaluate if the
performance loss is worth it. In particular, this change is
necessary to support high bit depth imagery.
* Add support for masks over the search window. This is a step
towards supporting user-defined tracker masks. The tracker masks
will make it easy for users to make a mask for e.g. a ball.
Not exposed into interface yet/
* Add Pearson product moment correlation coefficient checking (aka
"Correlation" in the UI. This causes tracking failure if the
tracked patch is not linearly related to the template.
* Add support for warping a few points in addition to the supplied
points. This is useful because the tracking code deliberately
does not expose the underlying warp representation. Instead,
warps are specified in an aparametric way via the correspondences.
- Replace the old style tracker configuration panel with the
new planar tracking panel. From a users perspective, this means:
* The old "tracking algorithm" picker is gone. There is only 1
algorithm now. We may revisit this later, but I would much
prefer to have only 1 algorithm. So far no optimization work
has been done so the speed is not there yet.
* There is now a dropdown to select the motion model. Choices:
* Translation
* Translation, rotation
* Translation, scale
* Translation, rotation, scale
* Affine
* Perspective
* The old "Hybrid" mode is gone; instead there is a toggle to
enable or disable translation-only tracker initialization. This
is the equivalent of the hyrbid mode before, but rewritten to work
with the new planar tracking modes.
* The pyramid levels setting is gone. At a future date, the planar
tracker will decide to use pyramids or not automatically. The
pyramid setting was ultimately a mistake; with the brute force
initialization it is unnecessary.
- Add light-normalized tracking
Added the ability to normalize patterns by their average value while
tracking, to make them invariant to global illumination changes.
Additional details could be found at wiki page [2]
[1] http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver
[2] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Motion_Tracker
This prevents high memory usage by non-proxied frames when doing mask parenting.
Description from code:
Originally was needed to support image sequences with different image dimensions,
which might be useful for such things as reconstruction of unordered image sequence,
or painting/rotoscoping of non-equal-sized images, but this ended up in unneeded
cache lookups and even unwanted non-proxied files loading when doing mask parenting,
so let's disable this for now and assume image sequence consists of images with equal sizes
Now it's indicates at which scene frame number movie clip starts playing back.
This this setting is still belongs to clip datavlock and used by all users of
clip such as movie compositor nodes, constraints and so.
After long discussion and thoughts about this it was decided that this would
match image's current behavior (which initially seen a bit crappy), but that's
actually allows:
- Keep semantics of start frame in image and clip datablocks in sync
- Allows to support features like support of loading image sequences
with crappy numbers in suffix which doesn't fit long int.
- Allows to eliminate extra boolean checkbox to control such kind of offset.
Hopefully from pipeline POV it wouldn't hurt because idea of having this things
implemented in original way was working only if sequence before processing
started naming form 001.
Number of start frame in opened image sequence used to be distinguished automatically
in a way that file name used on open would be displayed at scene frame #1.
But sometimes it's useful to have it manually configurable (like in cases when you're
processing image sequence and replacing clip's filepath to postprocessed image sequence
and want new clip to show at the same frame range as it was rendered from).
Added Custom Start Frame flag to movie clip (could be accessed from Footage panel in
clip editor) and Start Frame which means number of frame from sequence which would
be displayed at scene frame #1.
For example if you've got clip pointing to file render_00100.png and Start Frame of 100
this file would be displayed at scene frame #1, if Start Frame is 1 then this image
would be displayed at scene frame #100,
- Fixed suddenly disappearing preview image from track widget
- Also suddenly stopping tracking should be fixed now
Both issues were caused by mixing working with floats and bytes and
in some cases it was wrong or missed checks done for this.
- Displays dopesheet information for selected tracks, and currently does not
support any kind of editing.
- Changed regions to use the whole main region for such views as curves and dopesheet.
This allows to have own panels with tools/properties in this area.
- Active clip is getting synchronized between different clip editor editors in the
same screen, so updating of curve/dopesheet views happens automatically when one
changes current clip in one of this editors.
- Panels in toolbox and properties panels are now separated to rely on current view
mode, but some operators and poll functions still need to be updated.
- Added new screen called "Movie Tracking" where layout is configured to
display timeline, main clip window, curves and dopesheet.
- Make sure functions are named in way BKE_<object>_<action> (same way as RNA callbacks)
- Make functions which are used by mball.c only static and remove their prototypes
from public header file.
Further cleanup is coming.
and allow to interact with tracks for operators which doesn't require image.
Merged from tomato branch: svn merge ^/branches/soc-2011-tomato -r45624:45625
- remove unused vars
- no need to hard code version number for collada.
- cleanup some typos in comments.
- movieclip_calc_length was passing arg which should be unsigned to BLI_stringdec()
This adds movieclip input support to the sequencer, thereby making
undistorted and stabilized footage available without a seperate render step.
Also: removes some old cruft code from the sequencer:
* new_tstripdata wasn't used anymore
* StripElems were allocated for SCENE strips on full length, wasting memory
Added a comment, that hopefully makes things a little bit clearer:
StripElems are *only* usefull for MOVIE + IMAGE strips for all other strip
types one can set this pointer to NULL. (If that should cause otherwise
problems, then the code that doesn't check for NULL is to blame!)
Not all file formats/calls are supported yet. It will be expended.
Please from now on use BLI_fopen, BLI_* for file manipulations.
For non-windows systems BLI_fopen just calls fopen.
For Windows, the utf-8 string is translated to utf-16 string in order to call UTF version of the function.
Added AnimData block to MovieClip datablock which allows to animate different
properties in clip. Currently supports animation of stabilization influence only.
- Clamping of image on boundaries now happens nicely
- Looks like to prevent dark edges on image boundary when doing
bicubic interpolation, margin should be 3px. Maybe somebody can verify this?
