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  1. Connect the SDI camera into a Blackmagic Decklink card on the PC that is part of a Vicon Shogun system.
    It is displayed as Decklink in the Video Cameras section of the System panel.

  2. Click Decklink to display the video stream.
  3. As in Calibrate selected cameras, mask the selected additional camera and complete a wand wave for it.

    (tick) Tip
    : When waving the wand for the new video camera, bear in mind that you also need several other optical cameras to be able to gain enough information from the wand wave to be able to position the additional camera within 3D space successfully. You may find that holding the wand at an angle may give a better result.

    When the wand wave is complete, the SDI video camera is calibrated and added into the existing calibration. It is displayed in the 3D Scene view.

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    Because the calibration has provided extrinsics as well as intrinsic data about the camera, you can accurately overlay 3D data on top of the 2D data. This gives a quick way of assessing the quality of the calibration as, using the 3D Opacity control in the View Filters, you can see how closely the 3D image matches the 2D data beneath.



    Because this process is so fast and consistent, you can make changes the lens (eg, use a different focal distance) or even swap it entirely and produce a new calibration very quickly.

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