From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

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Zero weight trackers

Zero weight trackers

- Zero weight trackers are useful when we don't want to resolve a camera, but need other tracking points. Or you have an object that moves a little, like a tree or a shrub, and you want the location but you don't want to use it as part of the solve. So let's take a look at this. In this scene we already have this camera solved. So let's go over to the Solve For panel. You can see here we have a pretty low Error value. So this is probably a pretty good camera solve. So let's say, for example, that we've already sent this shot out. We've exported out the camera, we've sent it over to the 3D animation department, or the compositor, and they've already been working on the shot. So we don't want to change anything with the camera, but the client all of a sudden asked us to replace this sign. And we have two points here, but we don't know where those other two points are and that's where we can use zero weight trackers. So to create a zero weight tracker we're just going to create a…

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