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

[wombat]

Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) it's free.

Hi LivinLarge, are you using Kuula pro ? I have tried to load one I did this morning and it seems to want the Pro ver to upload more that one shot, or am I doing something wrong ?

 

[LivinLarge]

Hi LivinLarge, are you using Kuula pro ? I have tried to load one I did this morning and it seems to want the Pro ver to upload more that one shot, or am I doing something wrong ?

I do not have the pro version. I create the panos with ICE and upload the finished panoramas one at a time.

 

[Jake37]

I love options, but the only thing I worry about is, to many options and commands that could cause failure. I personally think the Mavic has more than enough options as it is. I guess that DJI really needs to stop forcing updates on us so we can choose what we want on our drones! Just my opinion, but I do like the Panorama idea!

 

[wombat]

I do not have the pro version. I create the panos with ICE and upload the finished panoramas one at a time.

Thank you for the feedback, I did one yesterday in ICE with still shots and it was to large for Kuula, I had to make it smaller and it was not 100%, will give it another try later.

 

[GlenT]

I love options, but the only thing I worry about is, to many options and commands that could cause failure. I personally think the Mavic has more than enough options as it is. I guess that DJI really needs to stop forcing updates on us so we can choose what we want on our drones! Just my opinion, but I do like the Panorama idea!

Hi Jake, You don't have to update the firm ware.
I'm still on .0400 as I found this to be 100% reliable and does all I need.
So, if you like a certain firmware version then you can stick with it. You can even roll back to an earlier version if you wish. Maybe not as early as .0400 though.

 

[LivinLarge]

Thank you for the feedback, I did one yesterday in ICE with still shots and it was to large for Kuula, I had to make it smaller and it was not 100%, will give it another try later.

I think Facebook and Kula are limited to 10000 x 5000 pixels. You can set the 10000 pixels width in ICE when you export the file. I use Photoshop to set the height to 5000 and fill in the sky.

 

[EsiMavic]

DJI GO 4 4.1.18 has been released in the UK Apple App store supporting Pano shooting modes.

Unfortunately the required firmware, 1.4.1.0, doesn’t appear to have been released yet.

Presumably not far away.

Is this true??

 

[wombat]

I think Facebook and Kula are limited to 10000 x 5000 pixels. You can set the 10000 pixels width in ICE when you export the file. I use Photoshop to set the height to 5000 and fill in the sky.

I only set the width at their max of 16384 and that works for me, I need to get some more footage to do some more

 

[Bob G]

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.

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Thanks a million for taking the time to spell this out so that even this noob managed make three really nice VR panoramas on the first day out. This is GREAT! Thx again.

 

[ddodell]

I must be doing some wrong ... I took video rotating around 4 times at different angles to capture everything. Imported into ICE and followed the instructions above step by step.

I never get an image that exports from ICE that works in any 360 spherical mode. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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Actually the only program I have gotten working is using Panorama Pro 3 on my Mac ... did the same flight plan, but took images manually ... and running it through Panorama Pro got a good looking image that works great in their HTML plugin.

 

[EsiMavic]

I guess I can now try the Sparks pano as I've downloaded 4.1.18 tonight