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To create a survey shot, click Shot/Add Survey Shot. You will be prompted to set up a filename to save the IFL (image file list) file for the shot. Do not overwrite one of your images with the IFL! You should usually place it in the same folder as the images, unless that folder is read-only.
The Survey Shot IFL Editor will open. Click the Add button, and select some or all of the images to be placed in this survey. The images do not have to be the same size or type (although it is a good idea!).
All images will be padded up to the width of the widest and height of the highest.
In the future we may re-scale them instead. Either way, it is necessary!
Important : All images in a survey must have square pixels.
The files from any Add are inserted after the currently-selected image in the image list. They are inserted in a sorted order determined by Windows/Linux/OSX.
Since it will be useful to have the images in at least a rough order that makes sense, you can use Add files as many times as needed to explicitly set up the order. Or, you can use multiple Adds if the images are coming from different folders.
You can also use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the order of the images into something that makes sense.
After you click OK on the IFL editor, you will be presented with the standard Shot Settings panel. You should not have to change anything. Specifically: do not change the image or pixel aspect. They are set automatically, based on the required padding.
Pixel aspect must always be 1.0 for survey images. Do not turn on rolling shutter compensation, that will make a terrible mess!
Once the survey has been created, you can edit the list again via Shot/Edit Survey Shot. While editing, you'll see the images update in the main camera view as you move images around, and clicking an image in the list will show it in the camera view.
You can add additional images to a survey shot at a later time, but....
Warning: Once you have started tracking, always add new images at the end of the shot, otherwise you will get the tracking data out of sync with the images.
Warning 2: The image file list is NOT restored if you later use Undo or Redo in the main SynthEyes interface. It is not part of the SynthEyes file. You can cancel out of the Survey Shot IFL editor and the initial IFL will be restored, but using Undo later will not restore the IFL.
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