From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

Matching-moving process

- There are several steps in the matchmoving process. The first step is understanding the final result. What do we need to do with our footage? Once we've determined that, we're ready to start analyzing the footage to see if there's anything we need to do to preprocess before we start tracking. Do we need to remove lens distortion? Is the footage grainy or dark? After we've determined these things, we're ready to import and set up our project. Once we have our project set up, we're ready to start the 2D tracking process. And after we've done 2D tracking, then we're ready to solve. Once we have a camera solved we need to determine whether or not it is correct or if we need to refine the solve. After we've refined the camera so that we have a correct matchmove, then we're ready to set up a coordinate system and start testing the track. Once we've determined that our track is correct, we're ready to export to an animation package and start compositing.

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