SynthEyes

What do you like best?

It's a clear, simple interface. It's not a convoluted or under designed. All the buttons are an easy read. It has a quick solution for automatic tracking as well as controlled supervised track. There's also lot of tutorials from the actual inventor Russ Anderson. So this is someone who stands by their product. Even though I use an older version it still works on the newer OS. So no forced upgrade or money well.

What do you dislike?

Even though, there's a lot of a tutorials from Pluralsight, FXPhd and Gnomon, tracking can still some times be problematic. It's not really guess work because it is "iffy" sometimes. No fault of Syntheyes because most trackign software has a "tolerance" level of what a good solve or not. So you have to learn several techniques that you can apply methodically to get the best solve. However Syntheyes goes a long way of taking the guess work out of the process. It does a lot of work for you then give you control to handle it better yourself. For instance, say you weren't on the set to document the lens, or their focal length. SE can give you a good solve without manual user input of these parameter but if you have them you can still help the solve by applying the numbers to the solution.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

At the cost and market penetration, it's a win.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Tracking is essential for VFX, Pre-visulation, music video, car commercials, aerial drone and architectural rendering. Syntheyes tracking in these 3 areas have been utilized over a decade. Yes, there are a lot of other solutions cropping up but Syntheyes has had a long standing foothold with interoperability. SE has an output solution for many applications. So when I help other with SE it's in several apps that I may not use, yet provide value.