looking for a tool to give me coordinates

[tirrellp]

Hi,

I am new to video editing. I am looking for a tool that will tell me the x,y coordinates of where I am clicking within a video.

A more advanced use case would be:
1. The video is playing.
2. Something comes onto the screen, like say a moving car.
3. I click and drag my mouse where the car is on the screen as it moves on screen then off screen.
4. The tool dumps a big csv array of timestamps and x,y coords.

I have looked around. I havent found anything that seems to have this capability.
Does anyone know of anything that could either fulfill the simple scenario or the more advanced case?

[filmboss80]

What are your ultimate goals? A search for video object tracking software yields results both simple (and cheap) and advanced (and expensive):

http://www.qubitsystems.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=QS&Product_Code=DV1

http://vaxtracking.com/

http://www.winanalyze.com/software.htm

But it's difficult to ascertain from your post what your exact intentions are, and how much money you have to spend.

[poisondeathray]

1) easy case & free - if you know how to use avisynth, you can point your cursor on a frame and avsp will report the coordinates. You can't play (only frame by frame) , and it won't export data. I appended an example screenshot to demonstrate

2) advanced case - visual effects software often use motion trackers for compositing. e.g. mocha, after effects, pfhoe, syntheyes.

Usually they export data specific for certain software (e.g. nuke, after effects), but you can usually open with a text editor (e.g. notepad) and it will report data in easy to read format like frame#, and x,y,z (if rotation with 3D) coordinates +/- much more information like anchor point, scaling etc..... depending on what you're tracking and how you set it up. I appended an example .txt file of a 2D motion track of the type of data you might get. In this example I tracked a hand.

[tirrellp]

filmboss80: my intentions are to feed the coordinates/frames/timestamps into another tool for a separate project I am working on. I wanted to see what tools there are out there at which price points. Free would be best, under $500 would be fine. Under $1000 would be acceptable. Anything over $1000 I would probably build the tool myself using c# and the directx library.

poinsondeathray: Thanks. I will give avisynth a try. The easy case will definitely get me where I need to be for the moment. I will check it out over the weekend.