Completing the Calibration

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‌Completing the Calibration

We’re now ready to complete the calibration process. Change Camera02 to Indirectly solving mode on the Solver panel .

Note: the initial position of Camera01 is going to stay fixed, controlling the overall positions of all the cameras. If you want it in some particular location, you can remove the constraints from it, reset its path from the 3-D panel, then move it around to a desired location

Solve the shot, and you have two orbiting cameras remaining at a fixed relative orientation as they orbit.

Run the Motion Capture Camera Calibration script from the Script menu, and the orbits will be squished down to single locations. Camera01 will be stationary at its initial location, and Camera02 will be jittering around another location, showing the stability of the offset between the two. The first frame of Camera02’s position is actually an average relative position over the entire shot; it is this location we will later use.

You should save this calibration scene file (porcupine.sni ); it will be the starting point for tracking the real footage. The calibration script also produces a script_output.txt file in a user-specific folder that lists the calibration data.

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