Action Director can do batch stitching for Samsung Gear 360. Just open the 50 files and wait for it to stitch. The 50 files will be saved in a folder (I forgot the location… check the settings / preferences)

We made A small Screen cast
with the nwe PTGui 11 Beta 5 Great update The weather was bad so the image did not Shine 🙂
we need more Cameras in the list instaONE and Samsung also shoot in Raw, but i do not know if Ricoh THETA V does.
Regards Svendus

I have followed the steps, and unfortunately I am still getting a HUGE misplacement on the stitch line, even though when I optimised it said “Too good to be true”. Has anyone else managed to successfully optimise for the Xiamoi Mi Sphere, if so could you post the image parameters?

I am determined to do this, as it would be great to use the Mi Sphere for basic 360 tours, as opposed to my normal camera and NN3.

Thank you so much!! You guys are awesome. 🙂

Great news
Thank You for the information
Xiaomi Mi Sphere and Insta One both shoot raw .dng

setting the White balance and other things in Camera Raw in PhotoShop or Affinity Photo for a later Stitch in PTGui 5 Beta Pro makes a perfect Stitch and color correction
Regards Svendus
we shall try to make an Tutorial when time allow us

..also, in PTGui Pro 11 you can get great HDR stitches from bracketed Xiaomi images!

Instead of one image, load 3 bracketed images at once into PTGui. They will show up as 6 source images.

In the Project Assistant, select ‘enable HDR mode’ (and link the bracketed images). The 6 source images are now shown as 2 merged images.

Do the control point placement (as I explained above), run the optimizer and save as a template.

Exposure Fusion or tone mapping can be adjusted in the side bar in the Panorama Editor. You can switch between exposure fusion and tone mapping in the Exposure / HDR tab.

Hi Nick,

Due to manufacturing tolerances there will be small differences between individual cameras of the same type, resulting in different small offsets of the image circles. You need to create a template (only need to do this once for your camera):

– Start a new PTGui 11 project

– Load a Xiaomi picture (preferably one taken outside, with no objects close to the camera)

– Go to the Control Points tab and add a few control points. Image 1 is the leftmost image circle, Image 2 is the right hand one. Just click once in the left image, then in the corresponding point in the right image.
It can be helpful to use the Generate Control Points Here function: Shift+drag to create a rectangle, right-click in the rectangle and choose Generate Control Points here.

– Optimize the project (menu Project -> Optimize). The result should be ‘good’ (otherwise you’ve misplaced a control point somewhere)

– Open the panorama editor (Control+E on Windows, Command+E on mac) and check the result.

– File -> Save As Template

That’s all. For subequent images: load the image, File -> Apply Template. Then go straight to Create Panorama.

If you need more help, please post to the PTGui support forum and make a set of images available. See 3.15:
http://www.ptgui.com/support.html#3_15

Possible adjustments:
1. Lens view angle – fixes the phenomenon with double or missing objects along the entire stitch line. This is the most important one.
2. Crop position for one of images – fixes shifting to a side, which causes linear objects to split on stitch line.

If there is some inconsistency between two lenses and sensors:
3. Pitch and yaw for one of images – fixes the phenomenon when on one side of frame there are double objects along the stitch line, on the other side the objects are missing.
4. Roll for one of images – fixes the incorrect angular position between lenses, which causes linear objects to split on stitch line.

You can also do as advised by PTGUI support – make a photo outdoors while holding the camera horizontally, then add the control points on objects far from you, and after optimizing you’ll get some clues about the values ##1,3,4.

But as of PTGUI 10 the panorama made with automatic stitching was horrible, with huge distortions due to wrongly calculated lens correction parameters (a,b,c) – they shall be around zero in our case.

This is absolutely fantastic!! However I am still getting a very bad stitch between the two lenses. Are there any settings that I need to adjust??

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwlx6617wtbf1r8/Stitch.JPG?dl=0