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Panorama question - how do I process 11 and 21 and greater images?

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So I am experimenting with my new Mini 5 Pro automated panoramas. Normally, I simply do a 3-5 manual shoot and stitch in Photoshop Merge to Panorama. I tried the 11 shot and 21 frames shot but I go no automated stitching in the DCIM files. I cannot seen to figure out how to merge these multi image panos. Does anybody have a good Your Tube for me to watch or a quick tutorial. I prefer Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom rather than other commercial programs.

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tell me more about the 11 and 21 shot panos. I have a Mini 5 Pro but I mostly use it as reconnaissance for my Mav4 Pro and don't do a lot of Pano's. Is the actually a setting that says 11 or 21? I need to fire it up and check this out....the manual doesn't even use the word panorama... I see there is no "11 or 21" setting per se and wonder how/why you would ever end up with that number of frames. Using the "free" pano setting? Otherwise I would expect, as I always do, that if you are shooting a pano manually, shooting a frame, moving ⅔ to the right or left, shooting another and continuing, and if desired, moving up or down ⅔ of a frame repeating below and maybe even above. You always end up with some form of a rectangular form and Lightroom will always be able to merge to a panorama. When shooting AEB it requires 5AEB for some reason. I don't understand the 11 or 21 issue....
 
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AK Drone:

Thanks for responding. I just shot this for you.
Here are my steps
1. from menu- still images
2. select Pano
3. select 180- hit start. Drone shoots 21 images (JPG)
4. DCIM shows 21 JPG images. Not auto assembled from the drone. I have 21 images to create the pano. How dod I do this?

I called Adobe-too they said, in Photoshop "File>Photomerge>Auto

Hope you can help.

Dale
21 JPGs from 180 pano.png
180 pano.jpg
 
My Mavic 4 Pro does the pano merging itself; it also gives you the individual files along with the merge. I’ve tried manually merging the originals in Lightroom, but the Mavic seems to do it better, or I don’t know what I’m doing (quite possible).
 
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In your root folder, not the Panorama folder, see if there isn't a pano there. It would be a higher MB count and of course the thumbnail would reflect it. I'd guess you have done that buy I think all my drones will create such panos - but I'm not entirely sure.
 
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In your root folder, not the Panorama folder, see if there isn't a pano there. It would be a higher MB count and of course the thumbnail would reflect it. I'd guess you have done that buy I think all my drones will create such panos - but I'm not entirely sure.
Yes AK D- I looked for it. Here is the root DCIM) folder opened for you. I cannot find a drone generated pano there.
I worked with Adobe Photoshop expert for 30 minute today but he could not stitch it either.

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DCIM folder.png
 
Dale, it's right there, exactly where it should be!
It's the 27.5 MB JPG circled below.
It also matches the time of the individual 21 JPG's and the file name matches the PANORAMA folder subfolder name of 001-0010.
You should also be able to stitch it yourself from the individual 21 images for a Hi Res image of a much larger size than 27.5 MB.

IMG_0095.jpeg
 
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