It seems that Step 1 is re-done after uploading a merged project to the cloud, even if I upload project files and don’t have the Step 1 box checked. Is that true?
That is, the details in the quality report for Step 1 after the merging process you describe (including adding MTPs and reoptimizing) are really different than the details in the quality report for Step 1 after I download that completed project after cloud processing. The differences after cloud processing are: 1) way fewer keypoints per image, 2) often more than 1 image block even though there was only 1 block before upload, and 3) a really long time for initial processing (without report) which suggests to me that initial processing started over.
This is related to my question here: https://community.pix4d.com/t/7773–Desktop-Cloud-Hybrid-Pix4Dmapper-Pro-4-3-31-imagery-with-different-spectral-signatures-one-block-after-subproject-merge-two-blocks-after-cloud-processing
This has happened on all of the projects I’ve tried to merge, then upload to Pix4D Cloud, not just the one with the really different Step 1 keypoint image scale that I mention in the other question.
Thanks for any insight!