Hi, No matter what I do I can't update to 3.0.1. I've downloaded the depth library and put the .vrl file with the Lockdown plugin but it won't install - it also won't uninstall. What should I do?
Lockdown should be 199€ at max - everything else is pure greed. Sorry developers, but if you continue down this road, your small company will be doomed
Not sure I understand your logic. Clearly Lockdown has been an industry standard being used for years by industry professionals like myself on top of even making it to a Version 3 release. Doomed companies typically don't survive to V3
Hi, No matter what I do I can't update to 3.0.1. I've downloaded the depth library and put the .vrl file with the Lockdown plugin but it won't install - it also won't uninstall. What should I do?
Lockdown should be 199€ at max - everything else is pure greed. Sorry developers, but if you continue down this road, your small company will be doomed
Not sure I understand your logic. Clearly Lockdown has been an industry standard being used for years by industry professionals like myself on top of even making it to a Version 3 release. Doomed companies typically don't survive to V3
do you have to buy this new version 3 if you have already bought version 2 again. It was expensive to buy first time round! Even at a reduced rate? and I never used it for a project yet
does trial have limitations? i tried tacking an image on my hand and it doesnt track
The only trial limitation is the grid for the mesh render, and exporting only 30 frames of 3D tracking. You can send in footage though a help ticket if you'd like a fast look at how I'd track the shot.
Hello, iam just struggling with adding textures in blender. I export my video as png sequence and after that in blender in shading i press ctrl t , open and find my sequence. i put right amount of frames but it still doesnt fit very well. could you please make little tutorial about this, or give me step by step instructions ?:) Thank you, great plugin though
Hello, iam just struggling with adding textures in blender. I export my video as png sequence and after that in blender in shading i press ctrl t , open and find my sequence. i put right amount of frames but it still doesnt fit very well. could you please make little tutorial about this, or give me step by step instructions ?:) Thank you, great plugin though
I actually don't really use Blender, but I can still guess why that isn't working: In the alemebic file, there are two objects you can view through the camera: The Mesh and the Background
For the Background, you can apply an animated texture of the video that has been tracked. This will align exactly as expected. The background plane has a rectangular UV set to fit the video that was tracked.
For the Mesh, it's intended purpose is not to show the video you've already tracked, it's purpose is to add something new. For example, if you're tracking a shirt, you can add a texture of a logo, or attach 3D objects, and they'll follow. But you can't add the original video, because the mesh is animating to follow the video. You'd essentially be doubling up the motion. I think the fast solution, in short, is apply your video texture to the Background layer, and make the mesh transparent.
If you ever thinking about buying a plugin that actually makes your workflow so much smoother then this is the plugin for you, this is THE best plugin i have ever got on aescripts.com, and it came with a the Paint link tool which is now in my workflow as MUST HAVE for all editor and vfx artist out there! highly recommended!
I bought Lockdown not a long time ago, but I have an issue. When I apply the effect on a layer (video), a error message appears saying there's an issue at line 8 or 9, it depends. It messes up the tracking which does not work properly, due to this error. When I unsinstall and reinstall it works once and then the message appears again (I do this manipulation via the aescript app).
How can I fix it and have the plugin work fine please? Thanks.
I bought Lockdown not a long time ago, but I have an issue. When I apply the effect on a layer (video), a error message appears saying there's an issue at line 8 or 9, it depends. It messes up the tracking which does not work properly, due to this error. When I unsinstall and reinstall it works once and then the message appears again (I do this manipulation via the aescript app).
How can I fix it and have the plugin work fine please? Thanks.
Enzo
Please send in a help ticket with system specs and a screen capture of the problem if you can. Also, clear and disable your Lockdown disk cache entirely in the settings, which is an unecessary variable for testing tracking quality.
Just to be clear, the "Free" version of lockdown still renders with a watermark?
It does render a watermark for mesh rendering, but that's not the point of the free version. The free version adds a new feature where you can export a null object from Lockdown to the Ae timeline. That null tracking data is freely available with no restrictions.
Amazing tool, is able to solve all sorts of tracking challenges that I would have had to manually track before.
But any news on the memory issues? my problem is more when it comes to exporting 4k. I upgraded to 64gb ram and freed up 32gb but still have to cross my fingers when rendering ( i9-12900K)
When I edit the fixed layer, I can put text and animations and such on it. Works great. But when I try to copy/paste parts from the fixed layer in an altered form (not just with the copy stamp) on this layer, it doesn't seem to work or at least it gives unpredictable results: I was trying to copy the left eye of a person, mirror it and paste it as a right eye. But the new "right eye"-layer keeps shifting and drifting... Any idea?
When I edit the fixed layer, I can put text and animations and such on it. Works great. But when I try to copy/paste parts from the fixed layer in an altered form (not just with the copy stamp) on this layer, it doesn't seem to work or at least it gives unpredictable results: I was trying to copy the left eye of a person, mirror it and paste it as a right eye. But the new "right eye"-layer keeps shifting and drifting... Any idea?
Thanks Frieder
I've done this kind of thing enough times to know it's doable, but it's tough to say what the issue is without seeing the footage. You would have to make sure both eyes are completely stabilized, so as you play back the footage, they are staying on the exact X/Y coordinates on screen in the comp. Then you can take that main Lockdown stabilized layer in the stabilized comp, and make it not a guide layer, and duplicate it, copy and paste it, and move it around. Feel free to send in a help ticket with the footage, I can probably show you quickly.
I wanted to try out the plugin before purchasing it. I installed it on my Mac, in AE version 24. It opened, but it doesn't show any points at all. How can I do tracking if it doesn't have those points or markers
I wanted to try out the plugin before purchasing it. I installed it on my Mac, in AE version 24. It opened, but it doesn't show any points at all. How can I do tracking if it doesn't have those points or markers
You have to create points, you can see how to do it in this tutorial:
I just noticed that Lockdown 3 seems to have CUDA support, but it says "Not Found" although I have a RTX 3090 with the latest studio drivers installed. Are there any other requirements to be met for Lockdown to be able to use my GPU?
I just noticed that Lockdown 3 seems to have CUDA support, but it says "Not Found" although I have a RTX 3090 with the latest studio drivers installed. Are there any other requirements to be met for Lockdown to be able to use my GPU?
Thanks for this awesome tool anyways.
Cheers
Michael
Hey, I'm sorry about this but we actually haven't released the CUDA drivers yet. We had built the UI out for installing them, but not actually gotten to the point of including the drivers. It was a dumb mistake on our end that the CUDA UI was made visible in the latest release. You're not supposed to see behind the curtain. The official CUDA release will be soon, sorry for the confusion.
I just noticed that Lockdown 3 seems to have CUDA support, but it says "Not Found" although I have a RTX 3090 with the latest studio drivers installed. Are there any other requirements to be met for Lockdown to be able to use my GPU?
Thanks for this awesome tool anyways.
Cheers
Michael
Hey, I'm sorry about this but we actually haven't released the CUDA drivers yet. We had built the UI out for installing them, but not actually gotten to the point of including the drivers. It was a dumb mistake on our end that the CUDA UI was made visible in the latest release. You're not supposed to see behind the curtain. The official CUDA release will be soon, sorry for the confusion.
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Ah,
no worries. Verrry much looking forward to it then.
Also, I've noticed that Lockdown really drags my computer down with larger resolutions. I've got a Threadripper 3970X with 256GB of ram and the caching runs on a m.2 ssd thats just for caching purposes. Everythings fine with 1920x1080 but with 4k and 32bpc the whole system starts to get locked down as well (sorry for the cheap pun) even if I am not doing anything with lockdown and I moved on to another shot. Cache current frames while idle is disabled. Restarting AE does help until I get to the lockdown shot. I tried to wait and after like 20 minutes of struggle it is going back to normal - for a bit. I ruled out every other plugin or software as far as I can tell. I woud expect it to give my system a hard time while tracking, but not while its not actively doing anything.
Let me know if I should add a support ticket right away, or if thats expected behaviour.
I'm not sure if I missed it out somewhere, but is it possible to 'bake' the plugin/tracking to share the aep to clients who don't have the plugin and still want to change content?
I'm not sure if I missed it out somewhere, but is it possible to 'bake' the plugin/tracking to share the aep to clients who don't have the plugin and still want to change content?
Is there an option for OBJ export? Or some other format than C3D?
You can export to Alembic, which works in Blender. From there you can export to many other formats.
Cheers Chris
Hi Chris,
is there any tutorials for Lockdown 3 with blender, houdini or alembic workflow?
Thanks
Reko
There aren't specific tutorials for alembic, but if you import the scene into any 3D program that accepts alembic, you can look through the Lockdown camera and see the shot exactly as it was exported from Lockdown. From there, you can attach objects or textures to the Lockdown mesh, and they will follow as expected. Sometimes it's best to create a null object in Lockdown itself, so all you have to do to attach to the mesh is parent an object under that null object. The Lockdown free trial exports 30 frames, you can give it a try!
Hi Chris! Thanks for the great plugin! Quick question for you: I'm following along with your tutorial, specifically the section about "expanding the mesh outside the surface you're tracking." Whenever I create an expansion point it only shows up for the one frame that I created it on then disappears the previous and following frames. I've tried clicking "auto-triangulate" and "reapply interpolation" with no success. Anything I'm missing? Thanks!
Hi Chris! Thanks for the great plugin! Quick question for you: I'm following along with your tutorial, specifically the section about "expanding the mesh outside the surface you're tracking." Whenever I create an expansion point it only shows up for the one frame that I created it on then disappears the previous and following frames. I've tried clicking "auto-triangulate" and "reapply interpolation" with no success. Anything I'm missing? Thanks!
It sounds like interpolation is shut off. Interpolation is the system that lets points with no tracking data follow points that do have tracking data. In the top left corner, there's a square 'i' button. Click it, then choose 2 point interpolation from the Dropdown. Everything should work after that.
Hi Chris! Thanks for the great plugin! Quick question for you: I'm following along with your tutorial, specifically the section about "expanding the mesh outside the surface you're tracking." Whenever I create an expansion point it only shows up for the one frame that I created it on then disappears the previous and following frames. I've tried clicking "auto-triangulate" and "reapply interpolation" with no success. Anything I'm missing? Thanks!
It sounds like interpolation is shut off. Interpolation is the system that lets points with no tracking data follow points that do have tracking data. In the top left corner, there's a square 'i' button. Click it, then choose 2 point interpolation from the Dropdown. Everything should work after that.
Is there any reason lockdown would perform painfully slow on AMD epyc processors, VS an intel proc?
To clarify. Dual epyc processors runs at 100% (192cores) and takes about 30 minutes with 1 tracker
A intel i9 with 18 cores does the same in about 4 minutes at 75% utilization.
Seems weird.
You can send in a help ticket with more details if you'd like. But please be very specific about the situation in which you're getting performance decrease. Is this when you open the popout and press the track button? Is this when you have a mesh created and try to render the composition? What do you mean by 'with one tracker'? Are you saying when tracking one single point? Please explain it in such a way that we could re-build your project step by step. It would also help to know the footage resolution and rough length, just to have an idea of what your project looks like.
I keep getting an error message when with AE crashing whenever I try to lockdown and and track
Please send in a help ticket with a crash log, system information, a screenshot of the error message, and anything else that might be relevant. This video will show you how to create a crash log.
We will do our best to figure out what caused the crash, and find a solution for you.
Anyone know of a way to reduce the effect of Lockdown? I'm not using it in the traditional way, what I'm doing is using lockdown to track an actors face, then aplying that track on to a statues face to bring it to life, but sometimes the actor over acts and the lockdown effect on the statue gets distorted. Being able to reduce the track by 50% would be great.
Anyone know of a way to reduce the effect of Lockdown? I'm not using it in the traditional way, what I'm doing is using lockdown to track an actors face, then aplying that track on to a statues face to bring it to life, but sometimes the actor over acts and the lockdown effect on the statue gets distorted. Being able to reduce the track by 50% would be great.
I thought about this for a while but couldn't think of anything- then it hit me- There is a technique I used in the past that could be adapted for your needs.
You could use this method of warping a red/green UV map, but then blend the opacity of the Lockdown stabilized UV map against the undistorted UV map by 50%. That should do exactly what you want!
Sorry for the delay, I was thinking about it from a mesh perspective, and couldn't figure it out. Unfortunately we don't make any UV mapping tools, so you may have to dig into them yourselves and see which work well with the latest version of After Effects.
Cheers
Chris
In the alemebic file, there are two objects you can view through the camera:
The Mesh and the Background
For the Background, you can apply an animated texture of the video that has been tracked. This will align exactly as expected. The background plane has a rectangular UV set to fit the video that was tracked.
For the Mesh, it's intended purpose is not to show the video you've already tracked, it's purpose is to add something new. For example, if you're tracking a shirt, you can add a texture of a logo, or attach 3D objects, and they'll follow. But you can't add the original video, because the mesh is animating to follow the video. You'd essentially be doubling up the motion. I think the fast solution, in short, is apply your video texture to the Background layer, and make the mesh transparent.
Cheers
Chris
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Chris
Lockdown Creator
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Chris
When I edit the fixed layer, I can put text and animations and such on it. Works great.
But when I try to copy/paste parts from the fixed layer in an altered form (not just with the copy stamp) on this layer, it doesn't seem to work or at least it gives unpredictable results:
I was trying to copy the left eye of a person, mirror it and paste it as a right eye. But the new "right eye"-layer keeps shifting and drifting... Any idea?
Thanks
Frieder
Cheers
Chris
I guess this was the part I was missing.
I'll try and get back to you if needed. But thanks a lot anyway!
Best
Frieder
Cheers
Chris
Also, I would highly recommend using Ae 2024, we do the majority of our testing and development with the latest version.
Chris
Lockdown Creator
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Lockdown Creator
We will do our best to figure out what caused the crash, and find a solution for you.
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Chris
Lockdown Creator
You could use this method of warping a red/green UV map, but then blend the opacity of the Lockdown stabilized UV map against the undistorted UV map by 50%. That should do exactly what you want!
Sorry for the delay, I was thinking about it from a mesh perspective, and couldn't figure it out. Unfortunately we don't make any UV mapping tools, so you may have to dig into them yourselves and see which work well with the latest version of After Effects.
Cheers
Chris
Lockdown Creator