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David, >> How long is the head shot? << 10 seconds during which the camera is never completely locked off. Even when it's not doing the truck in to the head (dolly) their is some drift. >> How did you end up working with the camera matching – every frame or what? I'm sure R5 is going to make this kind of work easier. << I'm going to upload the technique I used for this once the shot is done and out the door. It would be too premature to do it now, although the director has basicly signed off on the camera tracking – I'm still not perfectly happy with it <g>. Simply put there is no specific repeat of frames, you put ones where they are needed: some places every frame, some places only every 30, the average being every 5-10 I'd guess. The fewer the better. R5 will undoubtedly make this easier, because the method I use now is at best a laborious work-around with which you can get good results. It will never be an exact science though, until every shot which needs CG elements added is shot with a motion tracking head. Even movies with decent budgets don't have many of these yet. I think the problem is they take a long time to setup and calibrate per shot and they crew just doesn't want to deal with that "extra" step. Martin