Metashape/PhotoScan

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SynthEyes exports an XML file that Metashape (previously named PhotoScan) can read; when Metashape can't solve a complex set images by itself, this allows you to use the full set of manual and automated tracking tools in SynthEyes instead. If the shot is 360VR, it will be tagged as such to Metashape.

The exported XML file contains the image names, camera position, orientation, focal length, and sensor (back plate) size data. You should export the XML file into the same folder as the images.

Note: starting with SynthEyes 2106+, SynthEyes’s Metashape exporter removes file extensions from label text in the exported file, to match a

corresponding change in Metashape. Before this change, you needed to turn on Metashape’s “Strip camera extensions” preference; you no longer need to do that and should turn that back off. If you’re using a really old version of Photoscan and need the extensions, you can easily edit the SynthEyes exporter (photoscan.szl) to restore them.

All cameras are exported except those that are disabled on the solver panel. Any frames marked on the skip-frames track are not output; they can be output but disabled if desired based on a setting internal to the script. Aside from that, it's very simple, there are no user settings needed for it.

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