Batch build HDR

[Michael Goh Photography]

Hello - can you batch build a HDR panorama?  

Using PTGui Pro 13.2

I've done the HDR image as a template, however when I batch build and select the directories, each exposure is output as a different panorama.

Thanks muchly in advance

Mike

[Erik Krause]

Am 03.09.2025 um 12:05 schrieb Michael Goh Photography:

> I've done the HDR image as a template, however when I batch build and
> select the directories, each exposure is output as a different panorama.

You need the pro version for this to work. Before saving the template,
set the HDR defaults on Project Settings tab. For "Default handling..."
choose one of the Merge modes (probably "...link the positions" if you
took the images from a tripod).
For "When clicking 'Align Images'..." don't select "Ignore".

Under "Batch Stitcher Actions". "Do 'Align Images'..." should be checked.

And under "Template behavior", "Panorama, HDR and Output settings"
should be checked.

Some of the other settings might also be relevant. By placing the mouse
cursor above a setting, you get a hint and often also a detailed
description.

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[Michael Goh Photography]

Thanks.  Alas still not working.  In each of the source folders I have all the exposures from each camera (eg 5 shots from each camera at the different exposures (eg -2 -1 0 1 2)) plus all the photos in from the session.  In this test I'm just using 2 cameras but might use up to 5 cameras for the HDR panorama.  It works fine on the initial build where I've put the template images in a different folder just to create the template and it recognises it's a HDR.  But when I go to batch builder you can see once you "detect panoramas" (multiple cameras, one subfolder per camera (which I've used many times to do VR timelapes).  I've also tried one panorama per folder for the source of the batch files.

Using ptgui pro 13.3 (updated from 13.2 just in case there was any difference)

[Barry Bassnett]

Yes, you can .

Happy to chat 

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Hello - can you batch build a HDR panorama?  

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Hi Michael,

The 'one subfolder per camera' mode will take exactly one image from
each folder for each panorama. So this will not work with bracketed images.

If you can somehow rearrange your photos to one folder per panorama then
it should work. You just need to make sure that the file ordering
corresponds to the order in the template. PTGui sorts the files
alphabetically (*) before generating the project file.

(*) actually somewhat smarter, so that IMG2.JPG comes before IMG10.JPG

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

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