Determine when you’re ready to solve

You don’t have to make tracking perfect before you solve. We recommend tracking and solving in passes. Track the basic points and get a rough solve, then add more track points to increase the solution’s accuracy.

Use the Track Summary panel to help determine if you’re ready to solve. Look for the following:

Number of track points over time: You need a good coverage throughout the shot. See "Number of track points" for more information.
Ready To Solve bar and per point solvability: These indicators should be mostly green.
Errors in tracking: You can still solve if there is some red in the tracking data, but play any red regions to make sure the track box is on target. Delete any regions where the track box is off target and cannot be corrected.

Number of track points

The optimal number of track points depends on several factors. Here are some guidelines:

Generally, a rough solution (1-2 pixel slippage) is possible with 5 to 10 well-tracked points visible at any given time.
Because some points drop out of visibility, you may need more than 10 points overall. Longer shots usually require more points.
Shots with minimal camera movement need more points than shots with lots of camera movement.
By providing survey constraints, such as the depth from the camera or the distance between points, you can typically reduce the number of points needed.
The more accuracy you require in the solution, the more well-tracked points you should add. However, adding more than 40 points would probably diminish the benefit.