#Ptgui 360 video manual
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I then save this and the project to their own folders. I then import (load) these TIFFs into PTGui and run through the process of Aligning, Optimising, masking etc until I have the desired result. I can always export them again at any time if I needed to redo the pano. These TIFFs will never be available in Lightroom as there will never be a need to do anything with them once the pano is created. In here I have a folder for the photos, a folder for the PTGui project and a folder for the resultant 360 panos. Once done, I export as TIFFs into a completely separate file area specifically for my 360 panos. I don't do any lens correction at this point as I am not sure this helps when stitching later. I also open the downward facing shots in Photoshop and use cloning / healing tools to remove the center of the tripod as this cannot be masked in PTGui later. If I am shooting HDR inside, I would also do HDR merging at this point and adjust window brightness, shadows etc. I import the photos to Lightroom and do any tweaking for white balance, exposure etc. Your workflow seems very similar to mine, with the main difference being that I use Lightroom and Photoshop.

#Ptgui 360 video full

They are not in the Capture One catalog and could be deleted.įirstly, PTGui is a great program - I use it mainly for creating full 360 degree views which I then bring together with KRPano to create full virtual tours. When done, the files in the Pano-RAW sub-directory are no longer needed - they are essentially temp files.

If, you make a mistake and the white balance or exposure settings are not uniform across the pano images, then I make those corrections first on the RAW files before merging into the pano. If, for example, you have very high dynamic range and you need shadow or highlight recovery across all the pano images, then I've found that Capture One is better at doing this with RAW images than it is with the 16-bit generated TIFF. Note: There are some cases where I may apply some edits across all the RAW images in Capture One before creating the pano. Now you have RAW files and generated pano both in the same directory in Capture One and you can non-destructively edit it as desired. After the import, select it and do any final editing in Capture One (settling on the final crop, regular image editing, etc.). That will report the new 16-bit TIFF pano image you just put into that directory. Save the modified pano back to the same directory the RAW files are in as a 16-bit TIFF. Load your favorite pixel editor (I use Affinity Photo) and do any fixing of the generated pano edges (I typically use the Filters/Distort/Deform capability).Ĩ. If no tweaking required, save it to the same directory where the RAW files are located and skip to step 9.ħ. If the pano needs tweaking beyond what can be done in Capture One (such as warping edges to make the crop more friendly), then save the stitched pano TIFF back to the same Pano-RAW directory. in PTGUI select the source TIFF images that you just exported.Ħ. When the export completes, start up PTGUIĤ. Export them as 16-bit TIFF images in ProPhotoRGB colorspace to a sub-directory of their current directory named Pano-RAWģ. Select the RAW source images in Capture One for the pano.Ģ.

#Ptgui 360 video manual

My current workflow consists of a number of manual steps:ġ. I'm trying to find out if there's a more automated way to integrate Capture One and PTGUI for creating Panos from RAW files in CaptureOne, with the end result being a 16-bit TIFF file that is back in the Capture One catalog in the same directory as the source RAW files?