From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

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3D alignment

3D alignment

- So now that we have our tripod solve and we have our camera set up, we're ready to add some objects to the scene. So the thing that's different about a tripod camera is that there is no depth information. What that means to us is that we can put an object in the scene, and it won't matter where it is in Z, as long as we scale it up so that it fits in the scene properly. What I mean by that, I'm going to show you an example. Let's click here, let's add a cylinder right here, and I'm going to add one way back here. Okay, let's look at this closely. I'm going to move right up here. Put it into Camera View, so we can see it a little bit more clear. Now you saw where those objects are, right? We have one that's way back past the tracking points that's really large, and then we have one that's closer to the camera and smaller. And because there's no depth information, they're going to track in exactly the same, so if we go through the shot, you can see that they match up perfectly. So…

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