Revolutionise Your Motion Capture with OptiTrack Prime Color
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Cinema-Quality Imaging
Don’t settle for grainy or distorted reference footage. The Prime Color boasts exceptional image quality, delivering fully colour-corrected, high-resolution video (up to 1080p) that captures true-to-life visuals.
High-Speed Capture for Flawless Detail
With frame rates up to 250 FPS at 1080p, and even higher at reduced resolutions (e.g., 500 FPS at 540p), the Prime Color keeps pace with the fastest movements. Capture every subtle detail, ensuring your animation and analyses are based on the most accurate visual information.
Real-Time Intraframe Compression
Benefit from on-board H.264 compression handled directly on the camera. This innovative approach reduces latency, improves video quality, and lessens the processing load on your PC, ensuring smooth and efficient data capture.
Seamless Synchronisation
Integrate up to 8 Prime Color cameras into your OptiTrack motion capture system using Motive software. Achieve perfectly synchronised, multiple-angle reference video for comprehensive analyses and creative freedom. External sync options like Genlock and SMPTE timecode ensure tight alignment with other production equipment.
“Fast Glass” Lenses for Superior Clarity
OptiTrack’s custom-designed, low-distortion “fast glass” lenses feature wide-band anti-reflective coatings. This maximises light transmission, resulting in larger capture volumes and cleaner, more precise data.
Flexible Lens Options
Compatible with 1-inch, ⅔-inch, and ½-inch C-mount and CS-mount lenses, offering versatility to match your specific field-of-view and resolution requirements.
Seamless Integration with the OptiTrack Ecosystem
Motive 3D Motion Capture Software
Pair with OptiTrack’s powerful Motive software. Featuring intuitive tools like Trained Markersets, Continuous Calibration, and an advanced Skeletal Solver, Motive streamlines your workflow from initial setup to final data analysis.
Developer Tools: Camera SDK & NatNet SDK
For custom integrations and OEM applications, OptiTrack provides a free Camera SDK and NatNet SDK. This C/C++ interface offers extensive control, including access to raw camera frames, image processing modes, 2D object data, camera synchronization, and all 3D data.
System Flexibility: Mix and Match Cameras
Create the optimal modular mocap system. The PrimeX 13 can be seamlessly combined with other PrimeX or Prime Color cameras, allowing for custom configurations tailored to your specific tracking volume and accuracy requirements.
Synchronization and Connectivity: eSync 2
Achieve professional-grade synchronization with the eSync 2 hub. It supports Genlock sync, Timecode synchronization, and external sync in/out, ensuring your PrimeX 13 cameras integrate flawlessly into complex production pipelines.
Optimised for Your Workflow with OptiTrack Prime Color
Aim Assist
Simplifies single-user setup, allowing for quick and easy camera aiming.
Ethernet Connectivity (PoE+)
Single cable for power and data simplifies setup and integration.
Filter Switcher Technology (on FS model)
Easily alternate between IR and visible spectrum imaging, or use a band-pass filter to eliminate interference.
eStrobe Compatibility
Pair with OptiTrack eStrobes for powerful, synchronised LED lighting to stop motion effectively, even in challenging lighting conditions.
Capture Every Nuance in Stunning, Accurate Colour.
Capture every nuance in stunning, accurate color with the OptiTrack Prime Color camera. Designed for professionals in motion capture, animation, virtual production, and biomechanics, the Prime Color delivers pristine, high-resolution, high-speed color video to perfectly complement your optical tracking data. Elevate your projects with cinema-quality reference footage that unlocks new levels of precision and realism.
Sports Performance and Analysis
Unlock new levels of insight into athletic performance. The Prime Color’s high frame rates capture the fastest sporting actions in minute detail, allowing coaches and sports scientists to conduct thorough biomechanical analyses of technique. This is invaluable for refining movements in sports like golf (swing analysis), athletics (gait and form), swimming (stroke mechanics), and team sports (player movements and tactical play). The detailed visual data also aids in identifying potential injury risks and monitoring rehabilitation.
Applications Where Prime Color Shines
The Prime Color is an invaluable tool across a wide range of industries and applications. Its high-speed, high-quality colour video capture provides essential visual context to precise motion tracking data.
Filmmaking and Animation
Provide animators with crystal-clear, colour-accurate reference footage for realistic character movement and facial expressions. Essential for previz, virtual production, and final shot integration.
Game Development
Enhance character animation pipelines with high-fidelity visual references, ensuring lifelike movements and performances in game characters.
Biomechanics and Movement Sciences
Capture precise, colour video synchronised with 3D motion data for in-depth analysis of human and animal locomotion, ergonomic studies, and rehabilitation progress.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
Develop more immersive and realistic experiences by basing virtual asset movement and appearance on high-quality real-world captures.
Robotics and Engineering
Provide detailed visual feedback for robotic movement analysis, human-robot interaction studies, and machine vision applications.
Broadcast and Live Events
Integrate high-quality colour video into live motion tracking workflows for on-air graphics, virtual sets, and enhanced spectator experiences.
Technical Specification
Printing Properties
| Technology | Selective Laser Sintering |
| Build volume (W x D x H) | 16.5 x 16.5 x 30 cm 6.5 x 6.5 x 11.8 in |
| Layer thickness | 110 microns 0.004 in |
| Laser Type | Ytterbium Fiber 30W |
| Laser Spot Size (FWHM) | 247 microns 0.0097 in |
| Material Refresh Rate | 30% – 50% |
| Build Chamber | Modular, compatible with Fuse 1 generation printers and Fuse Sift |
| Hopper Capacity | 14.5 Liters |
| Dimensions | 68.5 x 64.5 x 106.5 cm 27 x 25.4 x 41.9 in |
| Supports | No supports |
Software
| Print Preparation | PreForm Desktop Software |
| System Requirements | 16.5 x 16.5 x 30 cm Windows 7 (64-bit) and up Mac OS X 10.12 and up OpenGL 2.1 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) |
| Hardware Requirements | Fuse 1 generation 3D printer |
| File Types | .STL or .OBJ FORM file output |
Hardware
| Minimum Access Dimensions (W × D × H) | 125.5 × 149.5 × 187 cm 49.4 × 59.0 × 73.6 in |
| Printer Dimensions (W × D × H) | 64.5 × 68.5 × 107 cm (165.5 cm with stand) 25.4 × 27 × 42 in (65.0 in with stand) |
| Recommended Operating Footprint (W × D × H) | 145.5 × 149.5 × 167.5 cm (49.4 × 59 × 66 in) to allow access to the front and sides of the printer. |
| Stand Dimensions (W × D × H) | 59.6 x 60 x 58.4 cm 23.5 × 23.6 × 23 in |
| Weight | 120 kg (without build chamber or powder) 265 lb (without build chamber or powder) |
| Startup Time | < 60 minutes |
| Operating Environment | 18 – 28 ºC 68 – 82 ºF |
| Internal Temperature | Up to 200 ºC Up to 392 ºF |
| Temperature Control | Quartz Tube Heating Elements Resistive Air Heater |
| Air Handling | Interface to external inert gas supply Pressure controlled two-stage filtration (Replaceable HEPA and carbon mediums) |
| Power Requirements | EU: 230 VAC, 7.5 A (dedicated circuit) US: 120 VAC, 15 A (dedicated circuit) |
| Galvanometers | Formlabs Custom |
| Laser Specifications | Ytterbium Fiber IEC 60825-1: 2014 certified 1070 nm wavelength Maximum 30 Watts 3.24 mrad beam divergence (nominal, full angle) |
| Laser Spot Size (FWHM) | 247 microns .0097 in |
| Radiation Information | The Fuse 1+ 30W is a Class 1 Laser product. Accessible radiation is within Class 1 limits. |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi (2.4GHz + 5GHz) Ethernet (1000 Mbit) USB 2.0 |
| Printer Control | 10.1” interactive touchscreen 1280 × 800 resolution |
| Alerts | Touchscreen alerts and tracking SMS/email via Dashboard Live video feed with computer vision Proactive maintenance alerts |
FAQ – Common Questions
Motive software supports automatic syncing of up to 8 Prime Color cameras for multiple views and creative compositions. The number of cameras your system can handle will also depend on your network bandwidth and PC processing power.
The Prime Color is compatible with C-mount and CS-mount lenses designed for 1-inch, ⅔-inch, and ½-inch image circles. OptiTrack offers its own “fast glass” lenses optimised for performance.
The Prime Color is primarily a video reference camera and does not have built-in audio recording capabilities. Audio is typically captured through separate dedicated audio recording systems and synchronised in post-production using SMPTE timecode or other methods.
Requirements vary based on the number of cameras and desired resolution/frame rate. Generally, a powerful CPU (e.g., Intel i9 or equivalent), ample RAM (16GB+, 32GB+ for multiple cameras), a dedicated graphics card (e.g., NVIDIA GTX/RTX series), and a high-speed network interface (1Gbps for 1-2 cameras, 10Gbps+ for 3+ cameras) are recommended. Refer to OptiTrack documentation for specific recommendations.
While the Prime Color is optimised for the OptiTrack ecosystem and Motive software, its standard video output and synchronisation options (like Genlock and SMPTE) may allow for integration with other systems, though this would require custom setup and may not offer the same level of seamlessness.
The Prime Color FS (Filter Switcher) model includes a software-operated filter switcher, allowing users to easily switch between an IR-pass filter (for calibration alongside IR motion capture cameras) and an IR-cut filter (for standard colour video capture). This is particularly useful for workflows requiring both types of imaging from the same camera.