Just want to share a “Today I learned” moment.
I used KeenTools PinTool / Geotracker in nuke to track a unknown camera onto some geo, all keyframed by hand but this would apply to regular Geotracker results …
KeenTools is pretty great at aligning geometry and guessing the focal length, but without any known filmback, it just goes oh yea the filmback is 1 unit… and continunes to only use focallength to calculate the Angle of view
What happens is geotracker writes a camera out with a sensor size of 1x1 unit (mm in nuke and flame) and a focallength of like 0.3 or something, now every program I tried is fine with this, as its a valid thing that checks out. Nuke, 3DSmax, Blender…
All but Flame. Flame decides to completely murder the scale of the camera, i think it cant deal with focallength below 1 even though the AOV checks out based on the small filmback.
so just another thing to check, sometimes its not just scene scale but “clipping” values in the focallength or filmback that causes cameras to not align.
On another note , its called FOV in flame, Field of View depends on the distance though , shouldnt it be correctly named angle of view?
Also while at it: Filmback should be able to be locked to action background ratio just for the beauty of it… a 1x1 filmback with action size of 1920x1080 makes no sense to me. (same complaint with nuke, 3DE can do this the best)