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have you changed something in your data?
This is a new data set, but captured on the same day and shot using the same camera rig (custom rig with 4 RED 8K cameras) -
Are these the new data or the old one?
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There has to be something wrong with your images. What is the difference between set which worked and the other one?
Again, I don’t believe there is anything wrong with the images. I have checked all image sequences in a RAM player and also in a video editing program. If any file would be corrupt, then I would get errors in those other apps and I don’t. I exported the images as JPG’s from the original R3D Files from RED directly out of Nuke14 as 100% JPG. Since even with JPG’s the data set is 150 GB in total size (2050 frames x 4 cameras = 8200 images) I haven’t tried any other image format, because all others are a lot bigger in file size.
The images of course come without any EXIF data, because the meta data contained in the R3D files is for video purposes really and once exported from Nuke, the meta data of the JPG’s is empty. I have to enter the focal length in RC manually.
4.Do you have 4 components for component workflow?
Somehow I am able to align each cameras images by themselves so I end up with 4 components (CamA, CamB, CamC and CamD)
But other chunks of the same take, using the same camera rig, with identical camera offset to each other, I can align all images at once.
5.Are you trying to align all of them in one project?
Although I have successfully aligned another shot with 4000 images, I opted to try this one in parts, because I wasn’t getting anywhere. My plan was to align several parts of the shot and exporting .rcalign files and then importing those in a new project and merging the components, even though I did not have luck with that, because RC just hangs at 0% for ever just trying to merge two components, that each took about 10 minutes to align originally. So I haven’t gotten far with it.
This is the alignment I did before using 4000 images (1000 frames x 4 cameras). I aligned all 4000 images in one component and the camera path of the whole rig looks flawless.
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If you will start alignment, is there something written in the console view?
I will copy and paste tomorrow what the console spits out, but basically I get the “Internal Error MSS_STR001” at the end of the alignment processing. In the case of not merging the components, the console just hangs for eternity on processing 0%. I have not waitet any longer than an hour today. The CPU was definitely doing something, but the progress bar wasn’t showing anything and after an hour I thought RC should have managed to merge something, given that the 4 components I tried to merge with enough control points, so that each component had at least 3 of them had aligned in about 10 minutes each. -
Can you try to use other image format?
I will try that tomorrow, but certainly not the whole 8200 frames as that would fill up my nvme ssd to the brim. At the moment I have less than a TB free on my ssd.
- How did you divide the data?
If you are asking about the chunks, I divided them into different folders. Part01 (first 250 frames x 4 cameras), Part02 (second 250 frames x 4 cameras). ect.
If you are asking about the generation of the images, then I loaded the original RED footage into Nuke14, and rendered the sequences for all 4 cameras out as a 100% JPG sequence.
- Would it be possible to share your data with us?
I don’t believe that will be possible as it is for commercial purposes with different vendors involved. Sorry. Even posting the above screen capture might get me in trouble, even though it was a shot that got canned anyway.
As maybe a feature request, could you add verbose levels to the console’s output or is there the ability to write to a log file, that has a bit more info than just spitting out these cryptic error messages? If something is wrong with an image file for instance, it would be nice if RC would tell me exactly which one for instance. I am used to reading and understanding error logs on a daily basis when rendering scenes in 3d, So I would greatly appreciate if RC could write a log file for debugging purposes.
Just an idea.
Cheers
Guillaume