3 Has anyone tried to make these manually? (Sphere Earth Shots)

[kjonyou]

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It's still floating around on the internet if you just look for it. Try here:

Autopano Giga (64 bit)

 

[kjonyou]

"It doesn't shoot 4k. 1080p only for asteroid and several other shots alot"

Actually if the Mini 2 does. The catch is when you switch to 360 sphere mode, you have to change the setting to 4K. You cant change them until you are in that mode and in the air even if you changed them to 4K for regular pics. Then the software stitches them together saves out at 1080p. But if you go into the sim, the raw high res files are there unstitched.

 

[kjonyou]

Used ICE and the 25 4K spherical pano files.
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Stitched the photos. Used the stereographic projection in ICE and made a best guess to the centre alignment point.
Cropped down roughly to a square and exported the image as a jpg file.
The image is 30mb so too big to post.
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Here is the whole as a snip.
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Zoomed in detail at 72dpi
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Zoomed in some more.
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Reduced image 1/4 of the width for you to navigate
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ICE was disconnected too.

 

[Meta4]

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GoPro bought Kolor from the French company that owned it and then shut it down.
Autopano Giga is still one of the best stitching programs around.

 

[kjonyou]

Yep, I posted a link above, you can still get Autopano at vearious other sources. I wonder why they killed it? Is that why they bought it to kill the competition?

 

[SethB]

PTGui is built on the pioneering work of physics/math Prof. Helmut Dersch, who created the Panorama Tools library, (the “PT” in PTGui), that is used by many/most/all spherical pano stitching software.

There’s a community project called Hugin that is also built on Panorama Tools that suits some people. I found it challenging to learn, but there is lots of community support for it:

Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher

hugin.sourceforge.net

 

[Meta4]

It's still floating around on the internet if you just look for it. Try here:

Autopano Giga (64 bit)

That's an old version.
Autopano Giga was in version 4.4 when GoPro closed the company.

 

[basyok]

I second using Microsoft Image Composite Editor). Free, and usually excellent. The only trouble I have is adding in the missing sky. I do it in photoshop with , and depending on the 360, sometimes I can get excellent results without much effort, and sometimes not so great results. I wish there was an easy way to add the blurred fill-in sky like the DJI app does. Or like google photos automatically does if you leave the manually 360 dimensions intact (not changing to 2x1) but change the EXIF to fake it as a proper equirectangular 2x1.