What is the best way to track the movement of a real life camera on eias?  is that what MoCon is for?

If I understand the question correctly, I would say SynthEyes.

If it’s a very simple camera move (like a pan) then the built-in motion tracker could do this.

Look up “Match Move” in the Manual.

Ian

The built in match move tracker works great, for pan and tilt.

I am going to have a shot from a helicopter flying over a site and then I have to insert the 3D model in the shot.  Should I try this with the plug-in EAIS has built in? or should I look into something else.  My clients were looking at some renderings in the spine3D website, so I am under some pressure to do something as good looking as that.

Syntheyes is your tool.

The tutorials are very simple, it exports motion to the EIAS .obm format.
Ian

Sintheyes is definitively, your tool. BUT, is important the camera that you are using; there is some nasty skew problem with CMOS cameras and the rolling shutter…
See here:

http://ssontech.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=478

http://ssontech.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=604

Good luck, post some when it´s done, if you can.
FelisCat

AAAAllrighty then, looks like I have a lot of tutorials to do.  Thanks a lot, this is a very important project for me.

besides the rolling shutter if you’re using CMOS, you’re going to be in for a shaky ride, helicopters are really ‘wiggly’ when they fly.
is the camera equipped like a news helicopter with some sort of gyro mount?
i’ve done helicopter shoots before and besides the motion it’s going to be full of fumes from the exhaust. it’s still a lot of fun though!