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Death Star Over San Francisco!


Filmmaker Michael Horn: "I shot everything on my junkie DV camera, did motion-tracking and comping in After Effects, and basic sound design in Final Cut." More in an interview in StarWarsBlog.

Motion tracking, which uses computer vision techniques to track objects in the image, has virtually replaced motion control, which uses expensive mechanical and robotic cameras, for many kinds of composite shots in the past few years. The implications for independent production, new interactive techniques, and general hacking are huge.

By way of Kevin Kelly's blog, in a post called The End of Video as Evidence of Anything, a must read.

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