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One of my favorite website is the TED Talk, there is so much information there on so many different topics.
It is now translated to several language. So while watching you can select some of the available subtitles.

This is called the TED Open Translation Project

The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world by offering subtitles, interactive transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated by volunteers worldwide

I just found out this great online tool for matchmover which let you convert your track file to any other track you want.

This tool is free and under MIT License, it also comes with an API or source code to implement better to your software take a look at it !
via Tracksperanto, your universal tracking translator.

Matchmoving often needs precise, hand-tailored 2D tracks. The promise of automatic 2D tracking is grand, but often fails expectations — mainly because auto-tracking algorithms cannot reliably link tracks of the same point which temporarily goes out of picture or gets obscured. Therefore, for many shots 2D tracking by hand is a better option (it also allows one to speed up the solve by using less tracks and avoid overloading the solver by judicially choosing tracked features). However, the final result of the solve depends of the solving program and it’s always beneficial to try the solve in all the matchmoving software available.

Therefore, we found it convenient to do 2D tracks once (currently in Shake) and then export the resulting 2D tracks to a few 3D solving apps at once. Once within these apps, it’s mostly a 15 minute job to configure the camera and see if the solve comes out well or not. This method tends to yield very good results since you track once and at least one of the many 3D solvers on the market will give a correct computation.

Tracksperanto assists in translating 2D tracks between many formats so that you can move your 2D tracks from one application into all of the others.

According to this blog post : m+mi works : blog : on interaction architecture: GIMP redux, single‐window mode.

As they said it will be possible to switch between the single mode and multi mode. So every one like me who thought the workflow was painful due to the GUI will maybe be satisfied with the new Gimp Interface.

As I said in a previous post about the 15 minutes of Avatar, what I think the best 3D movie out today is Disney/Pixar’s Up. In my opinion They got the most of it, and Mike Seymour (vfx supervisor and teacher at FXPHD) seems to have the same point of view.

So Mike talked to the Pixar team(cf FxguideTV episode 65), and he create a list of 10 tips for creating Stereo Movie.
You can find this list here on the Fxph Dean’s blog