Ensuring standardised arrangement of photos that make up a panorama

[360edge]

Hi All,

It has been a long time since posting - I hope everyone is well.

I have been using PTGui PRO happily for a few years now and mainly batch process using templates - the best professional stitching software by far in my opinion.

Now however, I want a little more control of the final arrangement so I can standardise panoramas for a mapping exercise I am working on.

I shoot 6-around, 2-up with a D200/10.5mm rig.

If possible, I want to set PTGui up so that the centre of the stitched panorama jpeg is at the same point for each panorama; to explain, if for every panorama I shoot the first of the 6-around photos pointing North then I would want this to be, for example, in the centre of the stitched panorama.  This will help me automatically add them to a customised mapping set-up later.

At the moment, the first photograph to make up the stitched panorama moves from anywhere from the left to the centre so I need to manually slide it to where I need it before publishing the panorama.  This is fine for a few panoramas but I want to set up a workflow so I can photograph lots of panoramas in the same way.

Is this possible?

Many thanks in advance,

Best regards,

Dave Staunton-Lambert

www.360edge.co.uk

[John Houghton]

Since you are using a template, you should prepare it with the yaw
value of the first image set to 0. If you set the optimizer
parameters with image 0 as the anchor, it will be unable to shift
sideways in the processing. Take care to uncheck the option to
"Roughly arrange images first" in the Project Settings of the template
project, and ensure you have the appropriate options selected in the
Template Behaviour section.

John

[360edge]

Many thanks John,

I will get right onto to trying that as soon as I get a chance later
today.

Many many thanks for the steer,

Regards,

Dave Staunton-Lambert
www.360edge.co.uk

[360edge]

The workflow from John worked a treat, thank you.