Flexible Lens Workflow Export: Undistort at Will

Lens distortion finally gets the non-destructive, “export-only” approach it deserves. In SynthEyes 2025.5, you can undistort or redistort imagery when exporting—preserving your solve, your sanity, and your timeline. No more “baked-in” mistakes or destructive edits to haunt you later. The interface is consistent across export modules, so every shot gets predictable, reliable treatment, and your scenes remain blissfully reversible. Artists finally get to pick their margin, resolution, and compatibility—like civilized people.

ML Motion Estimation: Let the Machines Suffer

Boris FX throws some proper machine learning at the auto tracking problem this time. Dense, per-pixel motion vectors arrive to save the day (and possibly your wrist). The new ML Motion Estimation model promises less cleanup-work, lower hpix values, and more stable tracker prediction—even when your footage is blurry, flickery, or full of occlusion. Activate it in the tracking UI, and let the algorithm chew on those “challenging shots” while you take a sip of coffee.

Mesh-to-Tracker Parenting: No More Geometry Orphans

Why should meshes wander aimlessly when they can be parented to trackers with a single click? SynthEyes 2025.5 brings click-to-parent mesh attachment, snapping your geometry and pivot right to the tracker in the viewport. As your solve evolves—distortion, scale, constraint, all the usual chaos—your meshes stay attached. Export hierarchies are preserved for 3D and comp tools, and you can still tweak pivots and offsets without breaking the family. Geometry drama, solved.

Additional Enhancements: File Handling That Handles Itself

More small wins for the workflow obsessive: mask dilation by set pixel counts (for less fluffy hair and fringe chaos), automatic orientation for JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and ProRes (finally, no more 90-degree headaches), and a dedicated LUTs folder for .cube, .3dl, and .lut files—automatically loaded in the UI so your grading artist doesn’t have to go on a folder safari. Oh, and SynthEyes now speaks Blackmagic RAW SDK 4.5, so importing 17K URSA Cine 65 footage is, as they say, natively supported.

Syntheyes is available as a monthly subscription for 55 € a Month, and through various savings (Yearly cost 290€) you can even still get a perpetual licence for 580 €.

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In nuce: The user Xavier (Jack), developer, animator and programmer in one, has presented the current development status of his real-time hand tracking app via Twitter. On 23 January, Xavier posted a moving image on Twitter that demonstrates what his app currently looks like in use. See below:

Good news!

I got a small grant to experiment with the creative use of real-time hand tracking in the browser.

First step, get that hand rig working with mediapipe (@tensorflow) and @threejs pic.twitter.com/RwXocbxZqJ

— Xavier (Jack) (@KMkota0) January 23, 2023

In toto: The highlight: His app should work directly in the web browser. According to Xavier, his app should still achieve good results even if the fingers being recorded are obscured by objects in the foreground of the image, for example. During development, Xavier utilised both the open source library TensorFlow , which focuses on machine learning for research and production, and Three.js, a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface that can be used to create animated 3D graphics in the web browser.

Click further: To the Twitter account of the user Xavier (Jack).

Source: 80.lv ( message from Theodore McKenzie)

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In nuce: Andersson Technologies released SynthEyes 22.10 on 20 October this year – the latest version of the software for 3D tracking and match moving. The newly added flagship functions include a curve-based colour correction tool and improvements in terms of roto masking. There are also numerous quality of life improvements and bug fixes.

RotoMasking in SynthEyes 2210

In toto: According to cgchannel.com, the new curve-based colour correction tool also has animated control points. Roto masking has been improved to the extent that it is now possible to move and rotate rotosplines as a unit or to move several rotospline control points at the same time. In the video above, Russ Andersson shows how roto masking works with SynthEyes 22.10. Furthermore, it is now possible to display a checkerboard pattern. This shows which pixels have been assigned to the current active tracker host by the auto-tracker. The option of superimposing the checkerboard pattern on the view is intended to allow the current setup to be checked. Quality of Life improvements include, for example, a new eyedropper tool that can be used to select the colour for keying.

Key data: SynthEyes 2210 is available for Windows, Linux and Max operating systems. The software ispriced between 299 and 699 US dollars, depending on whether buyers choose the Intro or Pro version and for which licence type. A trial version is also available. Registration is required to take advantage of this. Andersson Technologies was founded by software slash hardware developer Russ Andersson . Russ specialises in 3D animation, computer graphics, robotics and user interfaces for virtual reality and has a doctorate in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. Russ has worked at Bell Laboratories, the former research department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T).

Click further: The full range of functions of SynthEyes 22.10 can be viewed at ssontech.com . Digital Production reported on the release of Syntheyes 21.02 on 10 February 2021.

Sources: cgchannel.com ( message from Jim Thacker), ssontech.com ( list of functions for SynthEyes 22.10)

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In nuce: KeenTools has released a new beta version of GeoTracker – GeoTracker 2022.2.2. GeoTracker is a plug-in for After Effects that can be used to track 3D objects and simplify match-moving tasks. The most important new features of the new version include support for After Effects 17.0 as well as various bug fixes and improvements. GeoTracker 2022.2.2 was released on 18 October. The plug-in is also available for Nuke .

In toto: A number of videos on GeoTracker were recently published on KeenTools’ YouTube page – including some that introduce the plug-in and its range of functions and help beginners to try out GeoTracker for the first time. Interested parties can find the videos on both points linked below.

Click further: The new GeoTracker beta can be downloaded from keentools.io. KeenTools’ range of software is not limited to GeoTracker. FaceBuilder, for example, is a plug-in for Blender and Nuke that can be used to create 3D heads based on photos (Digital Production reported on 11 August this year).

KeenTools GeoTracker for After Effects (Beta)

Basics of Geometry Tracking – GeoTracker for After Effects Tutoria

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In nuce: Blender artist Sebastian König has released a Blender operator. The creation has been christened “Tracking: Image from Plane Marker Operators”. It is aimed at users of Blender 3.3.

How does “Tracking: Image from Plane Marker Operators” work? In the first step, you select an image from your video footage. In the second step, you edit the image according to your ideas. In the third and final step, you return the edited image to the original footage. There are two ways to access the operator: either via the Plane Track Image context menu or via the Track menu.

Click further: Everything else about Tracking: Image from Plane Marker Operators. In the video below, Sebastian König demonstrates how his tool works in the application. You can also visit the Blender Artist on Twitter.

Tracking: Image from Plane Marker

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