Comments on: pt_Panorama

By: giacusi

giacusi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:34:29 +0000

thanks paul, it’s very useful to me

By: Paul Tuersley

Paul Tuersley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:50:57 +0000

Assuming your footage is a locked-off shot of a panorama, you could indeed use the script to “wrap” that into a cylinder. But it wouldn’t work if the footage consisted of you rotating the camera through 360 degrees to film a complete panorama (for that you would have to take selected frames and use stitching software to stitch them into a still panoramic image first).

By: Paul Tuersley

Paul Tuersley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:42:57 +0000

I’m sure there are plenty of alternatives out there but can’t offer a specific recommendation. If you google “image stitching” you’ll find a wikipedia page which has a link to comparisons of stitching software.

Does anyone else have any suggestions for good/cheap stitching software?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:38:08 +0000

Can I apply the panoramic script to my footage, .mov?

By: TheMightyThor

TheMightyThor — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:26:53 +0000

maybe also update the Sticher Link to something else? thanks in advance, keep up the good work

By: TheMightyThor

TheMightyThor — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:25:54 +0000

can you suggest somethign other than Sticher for a panorama picture making, apparently it is no longer available when i click the link for it

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:30:59 +0000

Update posted.

By: Paul Tuersley

Paul Tuersley — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:37:04 +0000

I’m glad it worked for you. I’ll get the update posted now I know it fixes the problem.

Nothing has changed that would alter the amount of motion blur. It should use the motion blur settings that you set in your main comp that contains the Panorama layer. The default setting of 180 Shutter Angle should be fine but try reducing it if it’s blurring more than you’d like. Then just leave the default Motion Blur: “On For Checked Layers” setting in the Render Settings.

By: gurazius

gurazius — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:50:59 +0000

Hi Paul,

sorry for my hard words, I have to appologize…
The update you did send me didn´t have any of the former problems! No stitching errors, no bowed lines! But during motion it seems to be a little bit more out of focus compared to your former versions. But maybe I´should play around a little bit more with motion blur…

Would you add motion blur to your final movie, and if so, what parameters would you choose?

thanx a lot and best regards
gurazius

By: gurazius

gurazius — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:11:22 +0000

That didn´t help anyway. Still got bowed lines. I´m using perfectly stitched Panoramas and I get movies with unaccaptable stitching errors and/or bowed lines. So my question is: Will your script ever be able to produce movies without that limitations. Please give me a honest answer, because I do not want to waste my time and I´m not willing to accept timewasting, unsatisfying workarounds.

thanx in advance and best regards

gurazius

By: Paul Tuersley

Paul Tuersley — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:34:27 +0000

That suggests you need to try increasing the Number of Sides, say 32 or 64. Part of my update plan is to do a video tutorial so all this is a bit more obvious.

By: gurazius

gurazius — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:04:10 +0000

Did exactly what you told me. Got a little bit better, but straight lines aren´t really straight. So I think I wait for your update,-)

thanx and best regards

gurazius

By: Paul Tuersley

Paul Tuersley — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:56:34 +0000

Sorry, I forgot about that limit. You can “set it to zero” by opening its precomp, selecting all layers and pressing the M key twice to reveal Mask Expansion properties and set them all to zero.

If that doesn’t make it look better it could be something else. If you can send me a sceenshot of the problem and a reduced project with just these comps/layers I will look into it. Send to paul.tuersley@btinternet.com

By: gurazius

gurazius — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:19:54 +0000

Hi Paul,

thank you for your quick help!

Tried that (Minimum Number of Side is 10 not zero, by the way). This workaround makes it look a little bit better, but doesn´t solve the problem at all. Do you think you can solve that?

thanx and best regards
gurazius

By: Paul Tuersley

Paul Tuersley — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:09:43 +0000

I’m working on an update to solve these problems. In the meantime there are two things you can try:
1. Ensure the pixel aspect ratio of your main comp and panoramic image is set to square pixels at the point where you use the script to make the panorama.
2. To workaround limitations with AE’s 3D engine when big layers intersect, put two copies of the panoramic image in your comp and use the script on each, leaving Side Overlap at 50 on one, but set it to 0 for the other. Then change the scale of the one with 0 Side Overlap so it is slightly smaller (say 19,500% instead of 20,000%).

Hope this helps.