Why does the Spark deserve a Spherical Panorama mode when the Mavic doesnt?

[thumperer]

I dont get it... Why does the Spark get a Spherical Pano option, but the Mavic Pro doesnt?!

 

[LivinLarge]

You will have it in a few days.

 

[thumperer]

Interesting. Is that a fact or rumor?

 

[GerdS]

It's a fact posted by a DJI engineer on RCgroups. You should get the new version until end of next week.

 

[thumperer]

Thanks for the info. Out of curiosity, are there any other new features coming?

 

[Kilrah]

That's the only one this source has mentioned.

 

[thumperer]

Appreciate your input Kilrah

 

[LivinLarge]

In the meantime, you can manually create a 360 panorama.
MavicPanofb

 

[GerdS]

Or use Litchi instead of GO4, which offers a pano function as well...

 

[LivinLarge]

Did you know that you can make a spherical panorama from a video? No need to take individual photos, just yaw in a full circle a couple of times at different tilt angles. ICE will figure it out from the video and automatically make a pano from it.
Here is a quick one made from just one rotation without changing the tilt angle.

Video stitch

 

[LivinLarge]

Tried another spherical 360 pano from video. This time I did 3 rotations at different tilt angles to get the full spherical view. ICE handled it just fine. Might have needed less rotations if I had thought to switch to portrait mode. Anyway, I think it came out pretty good.
multilevel pano_stitch

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Tried another spherical 360 pano from video. I think it came out pretty good.
multilevel pano_stitch

That is a good result.

 

[Aendu22]

Did you know that you can make a spherical panorama from a video? No need to take individual photos, just yaw in a full circle a couple of times at different tilt angles. ICE will figure it out from the video and automatically make a pano from it.
Here is a quick one made from just one rotation without changing the tilt angle.

Video stitch

What do you mean with ICE?

 

[LivinLarge]

What do you mean with ICE?

Microsoft ICE, its a free program.

 

[pacmanclyde]

@LivinLarge
Great Panos! Can you share your process a little more in detail? Such as settings in ICE? and Did you take several videos (One at each tilt angle?)

Thanks!

 

[FASTFJR]

Tried another spherical 360 pano from video. This time I did 3 rotations at different tilt angles to get the full spherical view. ICE handled it just fine. Might have needed less rotations if I had thought to switch to portrait mode. Anyway, I think it came out pretty good.
multilevel pano_stitch

Looks Great!

 

[LivinLarge]

@LivinLarge
Great Panos! Can you share your process a little more in detail? Such as settings in ICE? and Did you take several videos (One at each tilt angle?)

Thanks!

First thing is to set the exposure to manual so that it does not change throughout the video. Put the Mavic up in the air at the height you want to shoot at, tilt the camera down to exclude the sky. Manually set the exposure so that this area is exposed correctly.
Tilt the camera back to level and start recording. Yaw the aircraft slowly until you have made a full circle. Tilt the camera down some so that you have at least 1/3 of the original view still in the frame.Yaw the aircraft again full circle. Tilt the camera again and repeat the circle. Tilt the camera nearly all the way down so that you can see the area directly below it and rotate again.

Open Microsoft ICE and choose New panorama from video. Select and open your video file. Leave camera motion set to auto detect. Drag the cut markers above the timeline to first set start and then end. This will speed up processing by eliminating video when the aircraft is not moving.
Choose Stitch to begin processing. Wait until the program has finished analyzing, aligning and compositing the images from the video. Choose Spherical as projection type.
Select Crop and then auto complete to fill in the image.
Select Export then then change the image size by setting the Width to 10000 pixels.Select Export to disk and give the file a name.
Exit from ICE and go to the location where you saved the file. Right click on the file and choose Properties. Go to the details tab. Scroll down to the Camera section and set the Camera maker as Ricoh and the Camera model to Ricoh Theta S. Click Apply and then OK.

You should be able to upload the image as is now to Facebook or other 360 image hosting sites. If you want to fill in the missing sky area, you can open the image in Photoshop or other image editing program and increase the canvas height to 5000 pixels. You can then clone the existing sky area or stretch it to fill the empty part.

 

[Logger]

Did you know that you can make a spherical panorama from a video? No need to take individual photos, just yaw in a full circle a couple of times at different tilt angles. ICE will figure it out from the video...

No I did not know that.
I have been using ICE for stilll image panos for ages and never realised. Thanks for pointing this out for the rest of us.

 

[:andre:]

Sounds great, is there an ICE alternative for Mac users?

 

[LivinLarge]

Sounds great, is there an ICE alternative for Mac users?

I'm not a Mac user so I don't know. Since it is made by microsoft, I doubt it. Might be able to run it in a Windows emmulator.