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Licensing Matchmover and Composite from Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3ds Max ?

If you have Autodeks maya and Autodesk 3ds Max, and perhaps Autodesk Softimage installed on the same workstaition, you can tell Composite and Matchmover which application serves them with a license by setting these environment variables:

• ADSK_MATCHMOVER_LICENSE
• ADSK_COMPOSITE_LICENSE

For more information, please refer to this post on this blog.

Thanks,

Owen

Matchmover 2012 Standalone with Maya 2012 Standalone - Error [-1.359.2]

When you launch Matchmover 2012 Standalone, you may get this error:

A valid license could not be obtained by the network license manager.

If you are still unable to access a license, contact your system administrator.

Error [-1.359.2]

MatchMover Light Mode vs Full Mode

Many users do not realise that MatchMover has two basic UI settings that give you access to features that you may not normally see when you first launch MatchMover.

MatchMover by default will first launch in what is called Light Mode.  Light Mode was designed for users to avoid the complexity of MatchMover and use simple automatic workflows.  This is great but you will sometimes need a tool or feature and realize that it is not visible.  The survey features for tracks is a good example of this.  These options will not be visible in the track parameters while you have the UI set to Light Mode.  

Switching to Full Mode in the toolbar will open access to these options and many others.  Please check the MatchMover documentation for more info.