Digilab - an Open Source Company

To those that have been following the Open Source community, there are a lot of open source products out there that you can practically have anything you want, in open source for free!

One such company that have this simple yet powerful open source software is the DigiLab – developed by the IT department of the University of Hanover. What they came up with is an Open Source motion-match moving software, VooDoo Camera Tracker.

You can set it up to what camera you used, its focal length, the type of movement – freehand or on a tripod, and export them in 3DS Max, Maya, Lightwave, SoftImage, as well as Blender. The only downside is that it’s only available on Windows and Linux.

Although it does take a while to get used to, there are plenty of tutorials online, as well as in their website.

I will be using this software in parts of my project which I will post soon.

BTW, I checked the SoftImage website and it says that it has been acquired by Autodesk - those greedy bastards!