Dimi Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 hi, I wanted to ask if someone has experience with realtime tracking solid objects on a stage (screens e.g.) What kind of software hardware bundle are there on the market? For example I found Optitrack. They sell IR cams and software to track something. Could I directly set that as an generic Input (and HOW)? Or do I need an Interface Software and if yes which and how to set it up basically. In the past I managed to get MIDI in/out and trigger things/tweens on my timeline and DMX is also no problem but how the generic Input works in Watchout eluded me. The section in the manual is also not very... large. Once I got the kinect to work with the pieces provided by Dataton (Academy) but that was a long time ago and drivers and SDK's changed and it never worked again... Also question in the direction of Dataton: is there somewhere a plan on a roadmap to bring out a proprietary tracking system like coolux does? I guess IR based cam system can't be that complicated to bring in. Could it be that harder than DMX or MIDI? but how to setup a software to output over tcp/ip correctly I haven't yet out correctly. Perhaps someone is willing to share some insights on this - something more than that I would need a "glue" to output something there and get it into watchout. Some small practical example of inputting some things "generic" to Watchout would also be of much help and appreciated a lot thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Pfeifer Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Maybe you take a look at the blog http://doc-ok.org/ and http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/ Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fahl Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Creative Conners specialize in tracking and scenery automation systems. They interface directly with WATCHOUT. See for example this detailed tutorial: http://creativeconners.com/spikemark-and-watchout-step-by-step Mike – http://fahl.se/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimi Posted September 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Thank you for the links. Exactly something like the link to creative conners is what I am looking for but more in the direction of Infrared tracking (like I posted before - Optitrack) kind regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Janzen Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 Medialon Manager might be a good tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Pfeifer Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 On http://openptrack.org/tracking-comparison/you will find a comparison of some tracking systems. With some extra scripting (e.g. opening TCP/ip socket) they all can be connected to WATCHOUT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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