Batch processing for timelapse

[Poul Flyvholm Jensen]

Hello,

I am using a fixed camera rig to create spherical timelapse videos. Considerable parallax error is inevitable, but with some effort it seems I can get a good stitch in PTGui, at least in the test I've done (see zip-file linked below). With the batch stitcher I thought I'd be able to apply that same, good stitch to all frames, but I've run into a couple of issues:

1) The yaw, pitch and roll are not the same in the .pts files generated by the batch stitcher as in the template, even though I thought I'd switched all optimization off. They are at least the same for all frames, and I can fix it with a script if necessary. But why do they differ from the template? Am I missing a setting somewhere?

2) As far as I can tell, the only way to apply the same seam for all frames is by switching off "Find optimum seams". But that seriously degrades the quality of the seam, making artifacts clearly visible. Is there a way to save an optimized seam once calculated and then use that for batch stitching?

Link to project files (zip)

Thank you,
Poul Jensen

[PTGui Support]

Hi Poul,

In your template please check these settings in Project Settings:

Batch Stitcher Actions - Do 'Align Images'.
Batch Builder Behavior - Initialize the lens settings..

If these are disabled, the project should be identical to the template.

There's currently no way to lock the seams to those found by the optimum
seam finder. The best you can do is to disable optimum seams, and
manually adjust the seams by placing masks.

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

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