Designed to deliver precise camera solves and dimensionally accurate point clouds in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional methods, SLAPSHOT is a new AI-powered VFX toolkit from Hotspring that has just officially launched.

The company is positioning this AI camera tracking tool to be an easy solution for those who might not work a lot in 3D and might be intimidated by trying to handle complex camera tracking moves. The solution is, of course, AI-powered and promises to be fast and simple to use.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, here’s what you need to know.


AI-Powered Camera Tracking

Launched as SLAPSHOT by Hotspring, this AI camera tracking tool was designed specifically for VFX artists working in 2D composition. This new tool aims to offer something that the industry has been asking for for quite some time—precise camera tracking that’s fast, simple to use, and actually production-ready.

“A track that might’ve taken a day or more to do manually can now be done in under ten minutes with SLAPSHOT’S new Camera Tracking tool. For people who don’t routinely work in 3D, camera tracking can be intimidating. It’s a very technical area, so it was really important for us to make it as simple yet powerful as possible. So we designed the tool to be able to produce a great solves with zero camera information - it’s literally just clicking the ‘Solve Camera’ button and we work out the rest. Alternatively, for people who have camera information, you can also provide it and it will be respected and incorporated into the solve. It’s entirely up to you, but it works great both ways.” — Co-Founder and CEO Jon Mason.

Built for ease of use, this AI camera tracking tool should make high-quality camera tracks accessible for all types of creators and video editors, regardless of their skillsets and backgrounds in 3D workflows.

A Full VFX Toolkit

Along with this Camera Tracking tool, SLAPSHOT does feature a growing suite of other AI-powered tools designed to help remove friction from the video process and help users raise the quality of their output across commercial, film, and episodic projects.

Here’s the list of the other tools in the SLAPSHOT VFX toolkit:

  • Camera Tracking: Fast, accurate, camera solves with point clouds - compatible with all major VFX software.
  • AI Rotoscoping: Clean matte extraction in seconds - hard and soft mattes with all exports.
  • Generative Retiming: Extend footage up to 2x - seamlessly generated new frames, no stuttering, tearing, or artifacting.
  • Video Depth Maps: Stable AI depth predictions on video - ideal for a wide variety of compositing tasks.

All of these tools are hosted on SLAPSHOT’s secure and independently audited AWS cloud environment and support resolutions up to 8K.

Price and Availability

SLAPSHOT is free to try, but it works with different subscription plan options, which start at $9 a month. You can find more info on SLAPSHOT’s website here.

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