feature request: command line or batch automatic alignment and stitching

[Oleg Leshchev]

I am stitching automatic panoramic shots from Mavic 3 drone. It has a shooting mode where it turns around and shoots by itself so resulting output is very predictable in terms of where overlapping sections are located.The resulting photos are organized in folders, separate one per each panorama.

PTGUI does a great job aligning and stitching such photos completely by itself. All I do is select all photos, drag them onto the PTGUI window and then click align (it used to sometimes flip it over but nowadays it's always perfect so no need to do anything there either), close the window, click create panorama and move on to the next folder.

So I wish there was a way to automate this so I wouldn't have to do all the mindless dragging and clicking. Sometimes I do have to add control points but it only happens in the winter when I am shooting low over a snowy field where nothing but white snow is visible in a shot or two. I would be ok if such panoramas would be skipped in this mode so I can handle them manually.

There's already a batch stitching tool but it requires projects. So maybe it could also accept folders and attempt to align fully automatically.

[PTGui Support]

Hi Oleg,

Have you tried Tools - Batch Builder (in the Pro version)? I think it
will do exactly what you need.

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

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[Jonathan Keeton]

thanks!

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[Barney Meyer]

Hi Oleg

I shoot up to 3Gpx aerial panoramas with an Inspire 2 drone. I have also used P4P and M2P.

PTGUI is very smart and it will recognise the image frame metadata (Yaw, Pitch, Roll and GPS position) and use those to position the frames.

MAKE SURE that you don't remove this metadata when you process the image files before inputting into PTGUI.

I shoot DNG files, process into jpeg, then import into PTGUI Pro.

I apply a template saved from a previous job, then make small edits if necessary.

You can export a TEMPLATE from PTGUI and use the batch stitcher to process multiple projects using this template.

HOWEVER, be aware that you are likely to have to make some edits after reviewing each project file.

Regds, Barney