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Tracking System for a videographer

Jody MooreJody Moore Posts: 1
edited 2011-10-17 12:30 in General Discussion
I'm a photographer/videographer.

I would like to set up an extra camera on a tripod and have the camera automatically follow(video) the bride when she walks down the aisle.

What would be the best way to do this?

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  • Mark_TMark_T Posts: 1,981
    edited 2011-10-17 11:45
    I'm tempted to say something like this: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLZHjdY6i3s
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-10-17 12:08
    Jody Moore wrote: »
    I'm a photographer/videographer.

    I would like to set up an extra camera on a tripod and have the camera automatically follow(video) the bride when she walks down the aisle.

    What would be the best way to do this?

    Hire an assistant?

    Seriously, it would require a PC with OpenCV and a camera, or a Kinetic camera with MicroSoft Robotics Studio; and someone to write the software to follow a white blob or such. Be kinda tricky with bridesmaids moving at the same time.

    Her's one product that can follow one moving target:

    http://www.paintballsentry.com/
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2011-10-17 12:30
    A simpler (electronic) solution would be to rotate the turret between set endpoints and at a set speed. As long as the bride walks without changing speed you can probably get pretty good footage. You could also remotely start the sequence so that the timing is right.

    But still, a nice video tripod and 15 minutes of practice by a younger technologically literate member of the family would be better...
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