AI-Powered Motion Estimation Improves Accurate 3D Tracking within Boris FX SynthEyes
SynthEyes 2025.5: Enhancing 3D Match-Moving Workflows with AI and Automation
SynthEyes 2025.5, the latest update from Boris FX, brings significant improvements to 3D match-moving workflows. This release focuses on automation and streamlining, making complex tasks easier and more efficient.
- ML Motion Estimation: The new AI-powered motion tracking mode, ML Motion Estimation, uses deep learning to calculate per-pixel motion vectors. This robust alternative to traditional tracking methods is particularly effective on low-texture surfaces, fast camera movements, and heavy motion. It promises less manual cleanup, more stable tracking, and better results on challenging footage like blurry or occluded shots [1][2].
- Lens Workflow Export: SynthEyes 2025.5 introduces a non-destructive, export-only lens distortion workflow. Users can undistort or redistort imagery at export time without altering the original solve or timeline. This approach offers control over margin, resolution, and format compatibility, reducing errors caused by baked-in distortion corrections [2].
- Mesh-to-Tracker Parenting: A new workflow improvement allows for straightforward parenting of 3D meshes to trackers with a single click. Attached meshes follow the evolving solve, including distortion and scale adjustments, maintaining pivots and offsets without breaking hierarchical relationships. This feature enhances scene organization and ensures exported hierarchies are preserved for downstream 3D and compositing applications [2].
Additional improvements include support for direct 17K RAW footage import and general workflow streamlining aimed at reducing friction in core match-moving tasks [1][2].
SynthEyes 2025.5 also offers a dedicated LUTs folder and Flexible Lens Workflow exports that handle lens distortion across major platforms. Moreover, the new Mask ML now includes a mask dilation setting, offering artists finer control over mask behavior. This setting allows for the expansion of mask edges to include soft edges, motion blur, and hair, preventing trackers from drifting onto unwanted edge detail [1].
Pricing for SynthEyes starts at $325/year or $62/month (see webshop for details). Customers with active SynthEyes or Boris FX Suite subscriptions or upgrade & support plans receive the 2025.5 product release as a complimentary update.
For more detailed tutorials and downloads, visit the Boris FX website [1]. Media inquiries should be directed to Jessie Electa Petrov, Director of Marketing at Boris FX (jessiep@pur socials.com, 617-451-9900).
[1] https://www.borisfx.com/synthEyes/ [2] https://www.borisfx.com/synthEyes/2025-5/
- Advancements in Data-and-Cloud-Computing: SynthEyes 2025.5, aided by advancements in data-and-cloud-computing, offers enhanced support for direct 17K RAW footage import, streamlining workflow and ensuring smoother processing of high-resolution content.
- Artificial-Intelligence Integration: The new AI-powered motion tracking mode, ML Motion Estimation, in SynthEyes 2025.5, leverages artificial-intelligence and deep learning to deliver more efficient and stable tracking on challenging footage, offering a robust alternative to traditional tracking methods.
