Render resolution should stay at project resolution with billboards off

 

Steps:
1) turning billboards off for a tracked camera with Aximmetry DE
2) Render a sequence of tracked camera

Expected outcome:
The sequence gets rendered at project resolution (just like if billboards are turned on)

Actual outcome:
The resolution of rendered images suddenly changed to the source clip resolution rather than the project resolution.

   jim4586

 
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Eifert@Aximmetry
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Hi Jim,

If you turned off the Billboard by turning off Use Billboards:

Then this is a kind of expected behavior, as you are going to use the raw camera footage and there will be no virtual placement of the billboards. Instead, the rendered virtual world is placed behind the camera footage.

If you really want this to have a different resolution, then you could put a Placer module here in the Inputs of the tracked camera compound:

Warmest regards,

 
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jim4586
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Ok sounds illogical that when billboard is turned off the rendering resolution suddenly changes and the project resolution gets ignored.

 
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Eifert@Aximmetry
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Hi Jim,

You could turn off the Billboards using these buttons:

Then the camera compound will use the same placement method as with Billboards turned on.

Warmest regards,

 
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jim4586
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Those are the non tracked cameras though right? Do they have an influence on the tracked camera?

 
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Eifert@Aximmetry
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Hi Jim,

The picture is from tracked cameras. And this is how you should turn off Billboards in your case. Cause Use Billboards off is actually a different functionality of Aximmetry, it is not for turning off and on talent's picture: https://aximmetry.com/learn/virtual-production-workflow/preparation-of-the-production-environment-phase-i/green-screen-production/tracked-camera-workflow/scene-control-panel/#use-billboards
Sadly, the Use Billboards pin name can be a bit misleading.

Warmest regards,

 
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jim4586
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I am pretty sure we were using that “graphical” button to turn the tracked camera billboard off. But it was changing the resolution. We will try again maybe?