Hi Jody,
This is solvable. Let me guide you through the problems and the specific solution to this one.
The first thing that comes to mind is, that it is pretty much a “locked-off” shot. There is very little movement, just rotation. In order to have a good solve on the tracking features, one needs to have more parallax. If the Drone had some substantial movement before it stopped and took the “panorama” in the same clip, that would be more helpful to solve it in one take.
What the tracking can do, is to give you an good idea about the rotation of the camera, but the movement is too little, hence your problems. Edit: the movement is only based on bad trackers, the drone was based on my new tracking pretty much locked off). Let’s have a look first to the problems and then how to solve them.
If you go to the side view of your file, you can see how much vertical difference the tracking points show, but the landscape seems pretty flat. If this would be more flat, I would suggest to use more points than three. As shown here
https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/motion_tracking_object_tracking_inside_cinema_4d/motion_tracking_object_tracking_inside_cinema_4d_tracking_the_main_shot
at 03:45 min:sec
Think of the a stabile and easy to draw triangle, that would be one with nearly equal sides. One side stands for the movement of the drone, as mentioned the parallax. IF there is no or very little movement, one side of the triangle is very small, and the point in opposite of the small movement, is not very precise. Think of an idea 90º crossing of two lines, that is pretty precise. Then draw two line with 3º crossing each other, the crossing point is much harder to tell. The typical tracking point cloud of a lock off shot looks more like a sphere, not flat at all, hence your problems to orientate it. It wont.
How to get a good solve anyway? I would suggest to take one image from the footage and use the Camera Calibrator. I have taken the first image and placed the needed parts into the scene. Since I don’t know where that is, I had to guess and assume that something is in an 90º relation. You can check with Google Maps/satellite perhaps more points.
Scene file
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/e8d0IqsffLbIuNaD9xBZZPEpuSRAydCx1SL31klq3jD
Note that I do not have any set-survey from that area, you have certainly more data.Based on that, I did not matched it to your scene.
The middle part of the clip might be even better…
This gives you an idea how the camera is oriented if the assumption that the floor is leveled and flat is kind of right. This relationship of camera and ground for that image. Create a Null.0, a new Null— never use a “Group Command” for animation, ever. Place all your parts under Null.0. Then create another Null.1 and move this Null.1 to the camera, so they have the same position. Now move the first Null.0 under the newer Null.1.
This top Null.1 can be now moved to orient your camera. The Calibrated Still image version can be now used as guide to adjust the motion camera with that top Null.1. Not that the distance to the floor object is different, this doesn’t matter for now, as all we want is the motion camera to start with a view to a leveled floor (my assumption it is flat and leveled).
Now place a flat polygon on the floor, somewhere in the tracking feature cloud, and move the time slider. If it slides move the plane up or down. Sounds not very precise, and it works only to a certain degree. better is, to have in both scene the same feature, like a axis/vector with the same length, so both scene match already.
This should get you very close.
The lens with 24mm equivalent of 35mm film sounds pretty much like the Phantom4 Pro, with a 4K crop of its 20MP sensor which should be then more like 32mm, but I’m guessing here, and that is not a good way to solve, some people use real 4K some UHD, etc. What I miss here is a lens chart, so you can crate an lens-profile, which will increase the precision.
“Wobbely”, I’m not certain what you have exactly in mind with that. If it is rolling shutter, that will not be eliminated by changing the tolerance value, as it is an partial image problem. Cinema 4D has no option for that.
When you track, the closer the points to the camera, the more precise they are. Point far away from the camera will get less and less precise. I even delete far away points most of the time, to just have no headache at all about them.
If you can redo the shot, have a straight fly to, like a dolly for as much length as possible, then stop, and have your pano. Take a lens calibration image from that camera and lens. Syntheyes has one for download, it can be printed out largely as “letter” pdf instead of a large image print. I paid for mine not even $10, three feet wide. You can’t take from any other drone the calibration, as these lenses are not super precisely centered.
I hope that will help you to fix the problem.
All the best