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Preparing for the lessons

Live

Lesson 1: Track and solve

 

Learning Resources > Tutorials > Getting Started with Maya > Live > 

Lesson setup

You begin the lesson by loading digital images of a live-action sequence. You’ll work with images we created for your use.

To load and set up the images for the lesson

1. If you haven’t already done so, download and extract the Maya Live Lesson Data at http://www.autodesk.com/maya-training in the Tutorials section.
2. In the Setup control panel, click the Browse button next to the Full Res Image box.
3. Navigate to the MayaLiveLessonData/sourceimages directory that you extracted and select any image file from the list, such as shot1BG.rgb.0001.
4. Click the Open button. Live loads the entire image sequence, from shot1BG.rgb.0001 to shot1BG.rgb.0240.
5. From the Predefined Filmbacks list (on the Setup control panel), choose 35mm Full Aperture.

   Filmback is the aspect ratio (width/height) of the exposed film negative used during filming. Before using Live, you need to find out which filmback was used during filming. Without it, Live cannot determine the correct angle of view (camera aperture) and focal length.

   NoteIf the images do not appear on the image plane, you may need to adjust the image cache settings. Click the Cache option on the far left to display the cache settings. Set Texture Method to Image. If the images still do not appear, try selecting None.