The next screen allows for changing of the panorama shooting direction. With a straightforward shot like this, there is little else for me to do, but let me show you what the other screens do, if you are curious. This is also why, with careful execution, freehand panoramas can be imported. The nice thing about this method is there is no need to import a control file that explains the grid to the software. For instance, when I select the 98 images from my demonstration shot from Maui, Hawaii at the Ali’i Kula Lavender Farms, AutoPano knows this shot was 7 rows and 14 columns. If your shot went off without a hitch and you have a nice grid of images, AutoPano should know this. The first step in the wizard is to pick the device that was used, in this case we select Gigapan. With all your panorama files in one location, it is time to use the stitching wizard in AutoPano Giga. That makes finding the files all the easier. I have found it handy to shoot panoramas, especially large ones, on a separate memory card reserved just for panoramas. The nice thing about AutpoPano Giga is it will understand your RAW files no problem, so there is no need to convert (but you can if you are impatient and want smaller file sizes). Importīringing images into your computer is no different than your normal shooting method. Shooting with the Gigapan EPIC Pro is explained in the previously mentioned post. Utilizing AutoPano Giga to produce stunning panoramas shot with Gigapan’s heads (mine were shot with the EPIC Pro) is fairly simple. Plus, it can not handle freehand panoramas I noted in that post that Gigapan’s software was in its first stages and was quite basic and while the software has been upgrade over the intervening two years, it’s still not as robust as Kolor’s AutoPano Giga. One ability AutoPano Giga excels at is the ability to take images and information from a number of automated shooting heads, such as Kolor’s own PanoGear or even other brands, such as the GigaPan EPIC Pro, which I reviewed for DPS two years ago. AutoPano Giga has been my panorama product of choice after starting with huggin, a free option that does quite well it its own right. I hope that fixes it, although I haven’t really looked at all at what the actual issue might be so fingers crossed.I know, it’s a long title but I want to show how easy it can be to assemble panoramas with either a Gigapan head or by shooting freehand, gridded panoramas. I’ll be replacing the cpu with a Threadripper 1900x as soon as I get the ram, 16gb G-Skill (Samsung B-dye). In addition, I’m using the foss driver that’s in the kernel. If my machines specs are the issue, here they are: It going out of business might be the perfect time for me to replace it with an open source solution Hugin was the first software I tried many years back and it just didn’t work for me at all and that’s why I went with Autopano in the first place. I have to say, I’m so amazed that it worked so well for you two. Assuming I get it to work on a new build or find a bug and a dev willing to fix it ofc. The worst that can happen is, some other company filling the vacuum with another proprietary thank you so much to taking the time to test this out and to give me some useful info You guys are saints.Ītm, I cannot get the thing to work correctly for me but I’m in the process of making a new PC build, so when I’m done I’ll be testing this heavily and judging by the results you two have presented me with, I think I might put Hugin as a default in my pipeline. One could start simply with petition for GoPro to release the source and then gradually increasing the pressure trough emails, forums and social media. And I’ll go even further to say that an opensource alternatives will not be up to pair with Autopano for 10 years+.Ī) somehow convince GoPro to release the source,ī) raise the funds to buy the software and release it as gplĬ) get a hold of some of the original developers to see if they are up for recreating the tech but in gpl, provided there is a way that they or the new project doesn’t get into a legal trouble. I’ve been doing this for a few years now and my verdict is that there is no software suitable for Panorama stitching at scale at the moment. PtGUI is similar to hugin, gives somewhat better results but not even close to Autopano. It failed to autodetect points so hard that it’s not even funny. I’ve tried Hugin yesterday with 16 jpg images to create a 360*180 panorama for VR purposes. Nope, but since it’s proprietary there is no way to add support for the new cameras, raw files and new lenses.
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