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 This last technique is the one we plan to use in our film and is the one we will attempt to demonstrate in this tutorial. We're going to use a fairly simple example to demonstrate the technique as most of the things we are planning do not involve especially complex interactions. This last technique is the one we plan to use in our film and is the one we will attempt to demonstrate in this tutorial. We're going to use a fairly simple example to demonstrate the technique as most of the things we are planning do not involve especially complex interactions.
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 Make sure that you save the Blender file somewhere as we will be using it again later. Make sure that you save the Blender file somewhere as we will be using it again later.
  
-The next step is to take the Targa files and put them into a Camera Motion Tracking software package. Although there is a discontinued program called “Icarus” that is somewhat popular in the Blender community, we decided to use one called “Voodoo” because it seems easier to use and is still under development (which means it will continue to improve). Both programs are free to use, but Icarus can only be used for educational purposesVoodoo can at least be used to make movies you might plan on making money from. Sadly, neither program is open source, but we live in hope. +The next step is to take the Targa files and put them into a Camera Motion Tracking software package. Although there is a discontinued program called “Icarus” that is somewhat popular in the Blender community, we decided to use one called “Voodoo” because it seems easier to use. Both programs are free to use, but Icarus can only be used for educational purposes, while Voodoo can be used for all non-commercial purposes. Sadly, neither program is open source, but we live in hope
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 +When we originally wrote this tutorial, Voodoo was available to be used for commercial purposes as well. However, one of our readers has now informed us that this policy has changed. We find this rather sad news as we no longer know of a good, free camera motion tracking package that can be used for commercial purposes. There is always a lot of talk in the community about including Camera Motion Tracking as a feature of Blender, but as far as we know no one has ever attempted this. In any case, we thank Robert Hamilton for informing us of the change in Voodoo's terms and conditions.
  
 You can get Voodoo from, http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/download.html  You can get Voodoo from, http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/download.html