# Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Match Moving

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Match moving is the technique of recreating the position of the camera
used in recording live action footage. This information can then be used
within Blender to merge 3D objects with live action film. For a more
detailed discussion of the concept, take a look at the Wikipedia
article on Match Moving.

Blender cannot perform match moving itself, you must use a 3rd party
tool to determine the camera position and the way it moves, then import
this data into Blender. While there are many software tools to do this,
this page references two free options: Voodoo and Icarus.

## Icarus

Icarus is a
discontinued University of Manchester project which can be used for
non-commercial work. The download links from the official page no longer
function, but Windows and MacOS X versions are available from this
Icarus video
tutorial by
Colin Levy.

## Voodoo

Voodoo is an
actively developed free match mover available for Windows and Linux.
Here is a tutorial on using Voodoo and
Blender

