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PTGui is by far the best. We often stitch then give solution to Editors to use in AutoPano.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 1:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] Photoshop Panoramic 360 imaging
Steven, Nick, Brian
Thanks all for swift responses.
I had downloaded demos of PTGui and AutoPanoPro but tried Photoshop first as I already have it, it’s free and I know it. I am playing with APP now, but PTG is about the same price so that’s not a factor. It’s not as straightforward as PS
but there’s video lessons at least.
As far as the nodal ninja is concerned I’ve heard Alex Lindsay discuss these in the past. In this case I think it’s overkill. I’m not about to invest in something I’ll likely only use once. If this client calls back and I do these regularly
then it will become something I’ll need.
FWIW the PS stitching within the edges is brilliant. No complaints at all. It’s unfortunate that it falls short in other areas (the full 360). And that’s what really chaps my hide about Adobe these days/years. We are forced to pay every
month for gimmicks and half baked features month after month, but real tools or real performance updates are few and far between. They add so called features like Photomerge, but we end up having to go buy other software anyway. I wish they would do away with
creative cloud and let us choose if we want to upgrade or not. Give them a proper incentive to produce tools we need and can use.
Tangential rant over, thanks for the ideas.
Adam
We did a tremendous amount of panoramic stitching for my giant screen film and stopped using Photoshop early in the game. Although the UI is not exactly modern, PT Gui puts all other apps to shame that we tested a few years ago. Plus has
blazing GPU acceleration and good user community and the viewer works very well.
Best,
stephen van vuuren
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Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] Photoshop Panoramic 360 imaging
I use a Nodal Ninja like the one linked along with a program called PT Gui for my pano work, but I shoot them CG/HDR usage. To get rid of your seam, try the offset filter in Photoshop. Offset it to reveal the seam in your image, clone
it out, then offset it back by the original amount and you should be good to go.
It has a heavy CG bent, but I learned how to do all this stuff from this book, which is great:
Try Mettle tools that were recently integrated into AE--that should give you a way to get your logo into an equirect without distortion, and also a reliable way to view the result.
As for creating better panoramas, that's a huge question, and as much about hardware as software. I'd say (except via photogrammetry) you can't do good 360 video or stereo panoramas with a DSLR or ball-of-GoPros, no matter how many of them
you have. You need a purpose-built 360 camera--here's a bit more detail on why:
However for a mono still panorama, which sounds like your situation, there's a much simpler solution--one regular DSLR with a NPP ("No Parallax Point") tripod mount like this:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Adam Mercado <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
Hi gang, this is not an after effects problem, but the great minds in this group probably have some experience here that I can tap into.
Got a request from a new client to produce a 360 image built from photos I shoot with their logo added in. I did a bit of google research and spent yesterday afternoon shooting some test shots in my back garden. I brought these shots into Photoshop and used
Photomerge to combine them into (a) a cylindrical map and (b) a spherical map. I added a logo to the long flat combined image, but when viewed in the 3D viewer there were some problems.
1. The image is squished horizontally so everything is tall and narrow. Obviously a no go where client logos are concerned. The settings in the dialog box to view the pano seem to have no relevance here as changing them made no difference to the results.
2. The ends of the pano do not blend like the middle shots do, creating a distinct seam at one point of the 360 pano. I shot ten images, left to right, overlapping 30-40% each side. Files are named 1-10 and added to the Photomerge panel in that order. Photomerge
then sets image 5 as the first layer and blends all the others in sequence, even wrapping around from 10 back to 1 in my shots. It does not wrap the ‘ends’ of the image creating a seamless 360, which turns out to be images 5 and 6.
3. In the Adobe help page for Photomerge it suggests having a top/bottom or ceiling/floor images to create 360 x 180 pano, but never gives the steps to do this. Also, the menu item in the help page does not correspond to the version of Photoshop I have (19.4.1
if I recall). It’s CC2018 and I’m sure the latest update
I also downloaded some free pano shots from
wpanorama.com to test with Photoshop 3D viewer, and while the 360 wrap was seamless the horizontal squish was still present. So, why are my photos not wrapping properly, how can I fix or ensure better shots? And is the Adobe 3D viewer just bunk and I should
try something more reliable?
Any ideas of where to look or what other app to use to pull off this job massively welcome. My first foray into anything VR so it’s a bit of a learning curve, which is fine, but every how-to page I’ve found just makes it sound bing-bang-boom easy as pie you’re
done.
I can supply files if anyone’s that interested
Thx
Adam
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