360x180° Panorama Tutorial - Pt.4: Stitching in PTGui (2)

Part 4.

Here's the another set of images to be stitched in PTGui. This time, however, we are dealing with the images shot from the tripod, so we need a couple of extra steps (using the masking feature and "Viewpoint correction") to prevent the tripod from appearing in our final panorama.

The final outcome can be seen here on 360cities.net:

http://www.360cities.net/image/final-panorama-from-video-tutorial-part-4

Other parts of this tutorial:

• Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouOEM4cKKGc
• Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUiw3jtErxk
• Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-WEosizCzE
• Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYbEHkxkOds
• Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEgLgReARxs
• Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TNawQWIpQ

Thanks for your interest and stay tuned!

Florian

PS: For those who need it, I also went through the trouble of adding subtitles to the videos... Click on the [CC] icon to enable them.

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[Csonjohn]

I ran the optimizer as per you suggestion at 1.16mins of this video and I got the following messages "the project doesnt have any active control points so there isnt anything to optimize"

How do i fix this?

[elfloz]

@Csonjohn As shown at 2:40, you need to click "Align Images" in the first tab first...

[pixluser]

@1bboyred1 into the hugin package check'

[spikephotography]

Hi Florian

Great series of tutorials - you unmask the black art of 360 photography. East your heart out Google Street View :-)

Spike

[gtxusa]

cool



[MrZagurka]

very useful tutorial!!big respect from Russia!!!

[Csonjohn]

@elfloz

Thanks I would review and retry....Thanks for your attention to this... :)

[Csonjohn]

One thing you didnt cover....is how to manually add control points if we don't get a good....after doing the "alignment of the images"...can you help with this?

[1bboyred1]

where to get the panoglview plz reply