Hi Gotz,
Well, DxO is extremely flexible with so many features. One that I failed to mention was also pushing the exposure up but the combinations that the tool provides are not only provide settings for each prime or tricked out lens you might be using. I didn’t make any change to the optic settings as it would through off the ability to align. So adjusting the exposure, noise reduction, unsharp mask and a little desaturation giving me a recipe that could be applied across all the raw images and then exported as 16-bit Tiff collection.
To note… I’ve used the help files to target my exact issues for weeks! Quite a problem with the license and not being able to solve the problems because of support issues. There is so little detail to the process of adding registration marks and ensuring they are utilized it’s of very little help. I use rich and technically deep visualization tools and they live or die based on their documentation and help and understanding from user base.
Though the options in RC are deep, providing a diversity of examples instead of a statue leads much more to be desired. I know that there are a number of other people in the studio side that will only use photoscan because there just isn’t time or examples of interior and exterior sets. I know that it’s slowly being adopted and has been used on some big shows but unfortunately I see photoscan being used at, just rough approximation… 20:1.
I’ve done extensive reading of the entire help file, the FAQ but the explanations on adding and adding markers between images, saving files and re-opening them and getting WYSIWYG would be what I would expect from any application… not RC so if you can answer that question, please do.
I think RC is fantastic, it’s speed is amazing BUT there are huge gaps in references for use-cases because of the considerably smaller user base or practical application in examples for the interiors or exteriors aside from castles or old historical sites. All photogrammetry tools have their issues dealing with certain things so LIDAR is a good safety net or required in some circumstances but providing this MUCH NEEDED support outside of forums is essential to users like me. I would prefere to use RC over any other tool for set surveys that can be quickly dropped in our virtual production environments but… again, the gap.
The help files ONLY existing inside the GUI, not printable is one of the worst executions of help documentation I’ve ever seen. If the entire help documentation is provided outside the application, please tell me where. I’ve named the issues specifically above in my first post, it’s not a matter of RTFM, it’s a matter of detail provided. Unfortunately, I’m not alone here in this opinion but I, with either better support on the forums and provided in just one or two interior tutorials I think it would go along way in bringing in more users and assisting new users like myself.
Thanks for responding. My questions still remain outstanding, if you can answer the questions I’d be very thankful. Thanks so much!