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Working with the Camera Calibration tag

Working with the Camera Calibration tag - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Working with the Camera Calibration tag

- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to work with the camera calibration tag. So how do we get started? Well, first we need a camera in our scene, so we'll create a camera. And we can look through it by clicking here. Next we need to give it a camera calibrator tag. So with the camera selected come over to tag, CINEMA 4D tags and choose camera calibrator. Now this is going to need an image so we can just click the ellipsis here, and we'll load in our image. So what we want to try and do is use the camera calibrator to figure out where the camera is. And firstly, while we're still in this image tab, I'm going to load in the lens profile that we created earlier. So this should give us an undistorted view of the image. Let's move over into the calibrate tab and how we calibrate this image is by adding lines, we can add grids, and for the camera or the world position we can add a pin. But we'll get to these things later. So what I'm going to do is just add a line and you can use the…

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