Does motion tracking work with optical zoom?

[albertsh]

@gpaprmh

Did you mean < .6 solve error? Quite frankly, 3 is considered minimum for a decent solve, 1 is a good solve and I am never happy unless my solves are in the .5 to .6 range… if I could turn off OIS in my camera, I could do even better. To be honest, I haven’t worked with a tripod shot yet, but I was just working on zooming last night, and no, the focal length of the tracking camera cannot be animated ( you can’t insert a keyframe…but I think I found a workaround - still testing ) The big problem here is how are you going to find the proper focal lengths to give to blender? Lets start with this: What camera are you using and what focal length and sensor width are you using?

Nope, it seemed fine to me but yes, it’s a 6. Reading the documentation once again… that’s pretty bad!
(It was getting 100+ before, so I considered it good.)

The camera is a Canon Vixia camcorder - I will get you an exact model soon.
As for those measurements, I’m not terribly familiar with them - our filming is more of a quick point-and-shoot kind of thing.
I think those measurements will be available once I get the model number, which should point to an exact Canon Vixia spec page.