➡️ Luminar NEO: bit.ly/luminarneo-dfg (use “DRONE10” at checkout for $10/€10 discount). Luminar NEO is perfect for editing panoramas but it does not stitch the photos together. For this you need a separate piece of software. For Mac we recommend: Panorama Stitcher: apps.apple.com/us/app/panoram... For Mac & PC we recommend: Panorama Studio 3: www.tshsoft.de/en/panostudio_... Adobe Lightroom (bit.ly/adobe-dfg) has excellent panorama stitching functionality and very good colour grading tools. However it costs $120/£120 per year...every year... Our advice if you are not already in the Adobe ecosystem is to buy inexpensive stitching software and then Luminar NEO to edit the panoramas. The combination of the two is less than a year 'renting' Adobe Lightroom and Luminar NEO comes with a ton of functionality that Lightroom doesn't have.
its quite handy having that vertical camera rotation now for doing vertical panorama's as well. great for waterfalls get up close and get a heap of vertical shots to stitch together has worked well for me.
Thank you soo much I have been trying to find the correct workflow for 5 MONTHS !! Your workflow is the best! Luminar Neo is fantastic and has a foliage settling, which is awesome because I am surrounded by trees!😊 You cannot underestimate the power of simplicity 😂
I bought Panorama Stitcher after watching this, and it's great no more wonky or uneven merges and combined with Luminar Neo it's a great combo to up my pano game.
Can Panorama Stitcher stitch vertical panoramas using the dng files outputed by the drone? Say if I took 20 vertical panoramas and export those as a TIFFs, can you stitch those 20 TIFFs together?
why can’t i find all the images separately. all i see is the finished one when i look through the sd card. because i want to put it into panorama stitcher but it requires more than 1 photo imported at a time
I can't praise the master class enough! The skills I have learned help in both my drone work but also in my general film and photography skills as well. You will not be disappointed. Best money I have spent in years.
My hope is the the tagging and folder structure for photos taken on the DJI drones gets some improvement. It is rather tedious trying to cull through to find the raw photos taken since they are lumped into DCMI without any organization. A folder structure to organize the captured photos based on the feature used to take the photo - PANAROMA, SPHERE, MASTERSHOT etc. would be a good thing for shooting J+RAW
my preference is shooting in HDR and manually shooting the pano overlapping about 30% and then using Aurora HDR for the individual images and the creating the pano in Lightroom.
Thank you for an excellent overview. I start by pushing "auto" in LightRoom. I use PTgui Pro to stitch because 1) I can mask out stuff selectively if I have enough overlap and 2) I can play around with different projections and make sure my horizon is straight and 3) in case of "trouble" stitching I can add stitching points manually. I export edited raws to PRORES 16 bit TIFF from LightRoom directly to stitch in PTGUI. In LR I can make sure to correct if exposure is varying too much between shots. Another point: apparently Dji Mini 3 pro does NOT refocus between shots in wide angle mode: the nearby grass was so out of focus in a shot. Maybe I have set something wrong?
I am using the Mini 4 Pro to shoot spherical panos. My software is PTGui Pro. But I have extrem problems with stitching clouds and skys correctly! I tried the “Align to Grid” tool but still haven’t figured out the parameters for the 35 images that the drohne produces automaticly.
Thank you for the great tutorial. I have a Magic classic 3 and so far I have not been able to stitch the raw files either on 180deg or wide mode with Lightroom without having a curved horizon. Will appreciate if somebody can educate me if you have done a panorama from this drone with a straight horizon successfully.
Thanks for another fantastic video. Loved your usual down to earth commentary and all your useful examples and detailed explanations and demonstrations for us. I’m sold on Luminar, will be using your link. Really glad I subscribed to your channel.
Thank you and glad to have you following along. Luminar is a great option these days. It used to be a bit of a maverick alternative to Lightroom but not anymore. Cheers!
Great video. Is it possible to hover the drone in front of you, and set a timer to take panorama photo of yourself, while setting the controller down, out of the shot?
Another amazing video Stewart!! I can HIGHLY recommend PTGui as a stitching software. As a full time 360 virtual tour photographer, it is the industry standard for accurate stitching, as you can manually adjust control points etc. You can also batch stitch imaegs which can be quite handy. It is quite pricey but well worth it.
How do you do the clouds and sky then? Automatically created control points are often missing and also manually it is difficult! Align to Grid would be the solution but I need the parameters for the 35 shots my new Mini4 Pro creates!
Can Panorama Stitcher stitch vertical panoramas using the dng files outputed by the drone? I see you used Lightroom to do this in the video. Then say if I took 20 vertical panoramas and exported those as a TIFFs, can you stitch those 20 TIFFs together using the same software?? Alternatively, could you just put ALL 60 dng files into Panorama stitcher without the need to create individual panoramas beforehand? Sorry, lots of if's and buts there...many thanks, great channel!
Thanks so much for this!!! It got me more interested in shooting panoramas with my Mini3 instead of just shooting video. I forgot that I had Panorama stitcher and it's a great alternative to using the built in DJI stitched jpeg!! You guys ROCK!
The biggest problem is that DJI twists the camera slightly for their wide angle panoramas and none of the mentioned apps in my experience knows how to handle this well to get straight horizons again. The only one that does a decent job (still not as good as DJI) is PTgui on Mac which sucks because I have moved 90% of my photo and video workflow over to the iPad. Has anyone figured out a solution for this issue other than shooting manual?
Thanks again😎. I have Neo and yes for years I slid sliders right left up down with limited success. With Neo I use 2 or 3 slides for Landscape and a few for portraits and I am very pleased with the results. Of course now I have 15+ years of old family / enthusiasts photos (raw) and videos that are screaming to be updated. Oh my🤣
You mention manual vertical panos and mentioned one that looks like 180 had 27 images stitched together. In vertical the angle of view is narrow. I did a quick try today and overshot the angle and there was not enough or any overlap. I'm just a bigginer. I just used the image on screen, the little compass and looking at the drone itself. Is there anyway to overlay the yaw angle on the screen or something like that or a script you can use to automate it to hover at a certain height then start taking shows and a certain yaw, rotate x degrees, take a shot and repeat, y times?
Great presentation and informative. I have always had DJI drones. Now with introduction of mini 3 pro and price drop of auto nano plus, I am undecided and thinking jump ship. I do respect your opinion about which drone you would choose if you care to share. I understand you and I both like DJI product, but auto nano plus can hold its own. Thanks Henry.
Hey! Did exactly that in the previous video on 360 sphere panos. You need Affinity Photo: ua-cam.com/video/Od0weexd1Rw/v-deo.html&lc=UgwwFxRSVaOSGQt3w_t4AaABAg
mine does not provide the stitched file, I can see in the app but horrible quality :( Light room gives me always error that could not use 10 photos. DJI so frustrating
Hi Stewart, I will be shooting in europe in the next 2 months (August- September 2022) I was wondering what do I need to be able to legally fly my mavic 3 mini without any issues? Beforehand Thanks a lot for your reply.
Hi, Stewart and Alina! I tried to do a 360 panoramic shot today and only got the 1 jpeg that DJI composes. I thought you were supposed to get the individual shots that it takes so you can import into Lightroom or some such program to fine tune the photos. am I doing something wrong that I'm not getting those individual clips? Thanks
Sure thing. As long as there isn't too much motion in the shot, 1/50th shutter will be fine for many photos. But if you've got things close to the camera like people, cars, waves etc., there is a risk you'll see motion blur in the photo so it would be best to land and take the ND off.
Stewart, is that just the base NEO version, or were you using some of the extras as well? I had a look at the purchasing options and the one-time buy version looked tempting, but I notice it doesn't come with the 2022 extensions and I'm wondering if that means some significant editing options arent included.
Hey! That's just the base version. The extensions weren't out when this video was made. For a one-time purchase they've made the new extensions quite expensive because they want to get people on the subscription mode. IF you are interested in the extensions then the best option is to go for the annual subscription (i.e. paying up-front for each year...every year). Given the functionality it's good value compared with Lightroom/Photoshop. But like I say, we're just using the base version and it's still got the main functions you would need for photo editing. Cheers!
@@DroneFilmGuide Thanks, just went for the base version as the editing options in your video look enough for me, and I hate subscriptions! I used your code too, so hopefully you get some kickback from it. Cheers!
Hi Stewart and Alina. Thanks for all the great content, it's been very helpful for me over the past couple of years. Have you tried DxO PureRaw 2 yet? I'm still using the free 30 day trial, but I will almost certainly be investing in it. It has transformed the photo output from my Mini 2 from "a bit meh" to "something I am not embarrassed with". Seriously though, it really cleans and sharpens the RAW output from the Mini 2 to make something much more usable. I'd love to see whther it can have a similar effect on the output from the Mini 3.
Thanks for the comment! Nope, not played with it yet but I think we'll have to. We been using Topaz Denoise for the last month or so and getting pretty great results from that. Used it with the latest 360 cameras that produce quite noisy images. What's interesting now is to what extent you could use software like this to eliminate the need to upgrade a 'cheap' camera like an action camera or a lower spec drone. Certainly if photos are your focus, then the answer is probably yes. What do you think?
@@DroneFilmGuide Yes, it is quite amazing (for an old photographer like me, and I mean OLD) that software can make such a difference to what I had previously understood to be "fixed" in a RAW file. I also have Topaz Denoise, and I don't know whether it is me but I find it can create artifacts which only give the impression of sharpness (It's probably my bad technique). Whereas DxO PureRaw 2 appears to simply create a sharper and less noisy image, without lots of controls to have to tweak. I have to pay for the full Adobe Creative Cloud for my real job, so I am pretty resistant to spending extra money, but DxO PureRaw 2 is definitely going to be on my purchase list next month. Give it a try, it is a fully-functioning 30-day trial, I think you might like it, and I'd love to see what it can do to stills from your camera and drone collection. By the way, I have no connection with DxO, and I don't usually extoll the benefits of new software, but that's how amazed I am by it.
Hey! The whole course has been overhauled to ensure it is absolutely up-to-date for 2022. We have also added three, 20-minute 'adventures' in the Scottish Highlands where we put some of the more theoretical parts of the course into practice. They are filmed in incredible locations and are an epic addition. The whole course is around 9 hours now. It's been refined, re-filmed, embellished and expanded since 2018 so it's 9 hours of intense, value-add content. Not a wasted word. We're very proud of it and the reviews support everything said here. It's a free upgrade for those who purchased Masterclass 2.0. Thanks for the question and the opportunity to talk about it!
Some great tips Stewart. In terms of deployment. I’d be interested to see/know with such big colour adjustments if Luminar is ‘edge’ aware. By this, I mean the pixels ‘match’ in the equatorial rectangle (2x1) at the extremes if you’re making an interactive pano. If they don’t then what’s the fix? Perhaps displace the image and retouch the 2 pixel edge error (which appears as a line in VR)? Cheers and how come you get the sunshine? Been rained off twice in Moidart these last week or so.
Hey! I'll need to check if Luminar is edge-aware for 360 panos. Lightroom is but even for huge colour adjustments it can still throw up the join when viewed as a sphere. Affinity photo is brilliant for editing 360 spheres because you can edit in the sphere itself and smooth out any joins with the heal brush. You can see a walkthrough of it in our previous video.
To answer my own question… no Luminar is not edge aware (might want to tell their developers). Affinity Pro can in-paint for easy fix… but it might be worth stumping up for PTGUI if you’re committed. Just sayin’.
I've been looking for a Lightroom alternative because of their ridiculous yearly 'rental' fee. I have an old, one time purchase LR version without hdr merge capability. This looks like a great alternative. One question - does it also merge hdr photos?
Loving these editing videos. Only problem is I only edit on iPad and Lightroom for IOS doesn’t stitch images so I can’t create Panos on the iPad. Have you got any ideas? Other apps that will do it before importing into Lightroom.
Hi Stewart downloaded Panorama Stitcher and kept the DNG as TIFF but was surprised to discover the file was only 72DPI. If I take a DNG file into Photoshop it it automatically converted to 300DPI. Any thoughts.
Have a look at the pixel count, it should be the same either way. DPI is mostly for prints not for image resolution. But make sure by looking at the resolution itself.
Hi Stewart, on my mini3 the dng files straight from the drone don’t seem crisp like the jpg’s, they look grainy in comparison. Is this right? Thanks Matti.
With so many people looking to you for advice and guidance, you really need to be careful with your terminology. 7:06 "there's a little bit of grain in the image". NO, there isn't! Grain is what you see in film. NOISE is what you're looking at in a digital image. Grain can be good in certain circumstances, and even artificially produced in the likes of NIK Silver Efex Pro, for example. Noise, however can never be good, which is why there is so much software around dedicated to minimising it.
➡️ Luminar NEO: bit.ly/luminarneo-dfg (use “DRONE10” at checkout for $10/€10 discount).
Luminar NEO is perfect for editing panoramas but it does not stitch the photos together. For this you need a separate piece of software.
For Mac we recommend:
Panorama Stitcher: apps.apple.com/us/app/panoram...
For Mac & PC we recommend:
Panorama Studio 3: www.tshsoft.de/en/panostudio_...
Adobe Lightroom (bit.ly/adobe-dfg) has excellent panorama stitching functionality and very good colour grading tools. However it costs $120/£120 per year...every year...
Our advice if you are not already in the Adobe ecosystem is to buy inexpensive stitching software and then Luminar NEO to edit the panoramas.
The combination of the two is less than a year 'renting' Adobe Lightroom and Luminar NEO comes with a ton of functionality that Lightroom doesn't have.
Do you recommend subscribing to or buying Luminar Neo outright?
We got some remarkable technology these days. Mini 3 Pro plus all these great apps equals epic aerial content.
its quite handy having that vertical camera rotation now for doing vertical panorama's as well. great for waterfalls get up close and get a heap of vertical shots to stitch together has worked well for me.
Thank you soo much I have been trying to find the correct workflow for 5 MONTHS !!
Your workflow is the best!
Luminar Neo is fantastic and has a foliage settling, which is awesome because I am surrounded by trees!😊
You cannot underestimate the power of simplicity 😂
Спасибо ребята, всегда очень приятно вас смотреть. Удачи и процветания.
Man, this is great! Love your work, love your tutorials, love your style!! Subbed!
I bought Panorama Stitcher after watching this, and it's great no more wonky or uneven merges and combined with Luminar Neo it's a great combo to up my pano game.
For sure! It really gets the job done.
Can Panorama Stitcher stitch vertical panoramas using the dng files outputed by the drone? Say if I took 20 vertical panoramas and export those as a TIFFs, can you stitch those 20 TIFFs together?
@@dbiggie yes
why can’t i find all the images separately. all i see is the finished one when i look through the sd card. because i want to put it into panorama stitcher but it requires more than 1 photo imported at a time
@@parkeroien on SD card look for pano section there should be all the separate photos and drag and drop them into Panorama Stitcher
I can't praise the master class enough! The skills I have learned help in both my drone work but also in my general film and photography skills as well. You will not be disappointed. Best money I have spent in years.
Always a pleasure to have your comments here Marc! What do we owe you for this one?! 😜
@@DroneFilmGuide just keep making this great content!
This is turning into the most comprehensive guide to the 3Pro on t'infoweb. Thankyou both.
Thanks Steve! Appreciate your comments!
Nice option is Microsoft Image Composite Editor, abandoned but you can find easily installer MSI
My hope is the the tagging and folder structure for photos taken on the DJI drones gets some improvement. It is rather tedious trying to cull through to find the raw photos taken since they are lumped into DCMI without any organization. A folder structure to organize the captured photos based on the feature used to take the photo - PANAROMA, SPHERE, MASTERSHOT etc. would be a good thing for shooting J+RAW
my preference is shooting in HDR and manually shooting the pano overlapping about 30% and then using Aurora HDR for the individual images and the creating the pano in Lightroom.
The views are fantastic. Well captured by the Mini 3 Pro. Amazing mini drone! Thank you for the brilliant tips!
Great tips for getting panoramic images with your drone. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic video. Exactly what I was looking for this evening. Subscribed and thank you!
This is the video I need. Great results! Can’t go wrong with the Mini 3 Pro plus these amazing editing tools.
Thanks for all the time you put into this. And yes always try to have fun with this stuff.
Thanks Stuart! Once again another informative and useful video. I agree, Luminar NEO is amazing!
Thank you for an excellent overview. I start by pushing "auto" in LightRoom. I use PTgui Pro to stitch because 1) I can mask out stuff selectively if I have enough overlap and 2) I can play around with different projections and make sure my horizon is straight and 3) in case of "trouble" stitching I can add stitching points manually. I export edited raws to PRORES 16 bit TIFF from LightRoom directly to stitch in PTGUI. In LR I can make sure to correct if exposure is varying too much between shots. Another point: apparently Dji Mini 3 pro does NOT refocus between shots in wide angle mode: the nearby grass was so out of focus in a shot. Maybe I have set something wrong?
When a comment in a video is more useful than the video itself...
I am using the Mini 4 Pro to shoot spherical panos. My software is PTGui Pro. But I have extrem problems with stitching clouds and skys correctly! I tried the “Align to Grid” tool but still haven’t figured out the parameters for the 35 images that the drohne produces automaticly.
Fantastic video. Great production too. Keep ‘em coming.
Very inspirational & informative. Thanks for sharing.
Thank You Sir 🙏
Very helpful for Me
Thank you for the great tutorial. I have a Magic classic 3 and so far I have not been able to stitch the raw files either on 180deg or wide mode with Lightroom without having a curved horizon. Will appreciate if somebody can educate me if you have done a panorama from this drone with a straight horizon successfully.
Thanks for another fantastic video. Loved your usual down to earth commentary and all your useful examples and detailed explanations and demonstrations for us. I’m sold on Luminar, will be using your link. Really glad I subscribed to your channel.
Thank you and glad to have you following along. Luminar is a great option these days. It used to be a bit of a maverick alternative to Lightroom but not anymore. Cheers!
This is absolutely superb Stewart
Nice explanation of panos. I just bough Neo and I’m looking forward to seeing the magic of AI. 👍🏻
Great video. Is it possible to hover the drone in front of you, and set a timer to take panorama photo of yourself, while setting the controller down, out of the shot?
Another amazing video Stewart!! I can HIGHLY recommend PTGui as a stitching software. As a full time 360 virtual tour photographer, it is the industry standard for accurate stitching, as you can manually adjust control points etc. You can also batch stitch imaegs which can be quite handy.
It is quite pricey but well worth it.
Thanks for sharing your experience!!
How do you do the clouds and sky then? Automatically created control points are often missing and also manually it is difficult! Align to Grid would be the solution but I need the parameters for the 35 shots my new Mini4 Pro creates!
Really nice video! But I have a question, how should I leave the camera vertical o horizontal while doing panos?
Excellent Tutorial Video! Thank You.
Can Panorama Stitcher stitch vertical panoramas using the dng files outputed by the drone? I see you used Lightroom to do this in the video. Then say if I took 20 vertical panoramas and exported those as a TIFFs, can you stitch those 20 TIFFs together using the same software?? Alternatively, could you just put ALL 60 dng files into Panorama stitcher without the need to create individual panoramas beforehand? Sorry, lots of if's and buts there...many thanks, great channel!
Thanks so much for this!!! It got me more interested in shooting panoramas with my Mini3 instead of just shooting video. I forgot that I had Panorama stitcher and it's a great alternative to using the built in DJI stitched jpeg!! You guys ROCK!
Fantastic! Great you have Panorama Stitcher already. Enjoy!
The biggest problem is that DJI twists the camera slightly for their wide angle panoramas and none of the mentioned apps in my experience knows how to handle this well to get straight horizons again. The only one that does a decent job (still not as good as DJI) is PTgui on Mac which sucks because I have moved 90% of my photo and video workflow over to the iPad.
Has anyone figured out a solution for this issue other than shooting manual?
Some more great tips Stuart
Thanks again😎.
I have Neo and yes for years I slid sliders right left up down with limited success. With Neo I use 2 or 3 slides for Landscape and a few for portraits and I am very pleased with the results.
Of course now I have 15+ years of old family / enthusiasts photos (raw) and videos that are screaming to be updated. Oh my🤣
You mention manual vertical panos and mentioned one that looks like 180 had 27 images stitched together. In vertical the angle of view is narrow. I did a quick try today and overshot the angle and there was not enough or any overlap. I'm just a bigginer. I just used the image on screen, the little compass and looking at the drone itself. Is there anyway to overlay the yaw angle on the screen or something like that or a script you can use to automate it to hover at a certain height then start taking shows and a certain yaw, rotate x degrees, take a shot and repeat, y times?
For most realistic perspective (as in, mathematically correct in a 90 angle degree), would it suffice to use the DJI app?
Is there a way to take a panorama with a dji drone with no distortion? Outside of doing it manually? Thanks!
Great video! Did you shoot the individual photos in 12 mb or 48?
Can you please share what the stand you have used for DJI mic ?
Excellent stuff, thank you so much
Nice video as always Stewart
Appreciated! Always learn something from your comments so keep them coming Gilbert!
Great presentation and informative. I have always had DJI drones. Now with introduction of mini 3 pro and price drop of auto nano plus, I am undecided and thinking jump ship. I do respect your opinion about which drone you would choose if you care to share. I understand you and I both like DJI product, but auto nano plus can hold its own. Thanks Henry.
Thanks for the tips. Could you make a tutorial how to extend cloudy sky upwards for sphere panoramas?
Hey! Did exactly that in the previous video on 360 sphere panos. You need Affinity Photo: ua-cam.com/video/Od0weexd1Rw/v-deo.html&lc=UgwwFxRSVaOSGQt3w_t4AaABAg
mine does not provide the stitched file, I can see in the app but horrible quality :( Light room gives me always error that could not use 10 photos. DJI so frustrating
Where does it save the stiched output, all I got were the separate stills.
Hice video. I have problem with Sphere foto. I looks bad one part of the photo. The horizont lines dont match. How can i Solve?
did you shot the waterfall in 12 mp or 48 mp photo? thanks
should I do the 360 panoramas in vertical or horizontal photo option ?
How did you overlay the text "Panorama " shown on your thumb nail?
Very informative 👍🏼
How do you access your panoramic photos on your Mac hard drive
Hi Steward, great video. What is the maximum resolution you can achieve on a spherical 360 panorama sticking them manually on post?
Hi. How did you make the intro text?
Hi Stewart, I will be shooting in europe in the next 2 months (August- September 2022) I was wondering what do I need to be able to legally fly my mavic 3 mini without any issues? Beforehand Thanks a lot for your reply.
I want to stitch them on a separate program
Hi Stewart and Alina, how are you doing to take out the separated pictures. When I shoot a 180 ° panorama, it's just one image file?
Awesome ❤️❤️
Hi, Stewart and Alina! I tried to do a 360 panoramic shot today and only got the 1 jpeg that DJI composes. I thought you were supposed to get the individual shots that it takes so you can import into Lightroom or some such program to fine tune the photos. am I doing something wrong that I'm not getting those individual clips? Thanks
You need to make sure it’s shooting JPEG plus raw. I think I demo that in the first minute or two of this video.
Great video! Do you shoot 12 or 48 megapixel images? Thanks.
Normally just 12mp but there's no downside to shooting 48mp provided there's plenty of light. Cheers!
Can I copy the adjustments presets for raw photos and apply them to others in Luminar? I want to prepare raw photos for time lapses.
I will have to try this 😉 If you are flying and shooting a video but want to take a picture, do you do it anyway if you are using ND filters?
Sure thing. As long as there isn't too much motion in the shot, 1/50th shutter will be fine for many photos. But if you've got things close to the camera like people, cars, waves etc., there is a risk you'll see motion blur in the photo so it would be best to land and take the ND off.
@@DroneFilmGuide Thanks for your feedback, very helpful 😉 Keep doing the good work!
Stewart, is that just the base NEO version, or were you using some of the extras as well? I had a look at the purchasing options and the one-time buy version looked tempting, but I notice it doesn't come with the 2022 extensions and I'm wondering if that means some significant editing options arent included.
Hey! That's just the base version. The extensions weren't out when this video was made. For a one-time purchase they've made the new extensions quite expensive because they want to get people on the subscription mode. IF you are interested in the extensions then the best option is to go for the annual subscription (i.e. paying up-front for each year...every year). Given the functionality it's good value compared with Lightroom/Photoshop. But like I say, we're just using the base version and it's still got the main functions you would need for photo editing. Cheers!
@@DroneFilmGuide Thanks, just went for the base version as the editing options in your video look enough for me, and I hate subscriptions! I used your code too, so hopefully you get some kickback from it. Cheers!
Hi Stewart and Alina. Thanks for all the great content, it's been very helpful for me over the past couple of years. Have you tried DxO PureRaw 2 yet? I'm still using the free 30 day trial, but I will almost certainly be investing in it. It has transformed the photo output from my Mini 2 from "a bit meh" to "something I am not embarrassed with". Seriously though, it really cleans and sharpens the RAW output from the Mini 2 to make something much more usable. I'd love to see whther it can have a similar effect on the output from the Mini 3.
Thanks for the comment! Nope, not played with it yet but I think we'll have to. We been using Topaz Denoise for the last month or so and getting pretty great results from that. Used it with the latest 360 cameras that produce quite noisy images. What's interesting now is to what extent you could use software like this to eliminate the need to upgrade a 'cheap' camera like an action camera or a lower spec drone. Certainly if photos are your focus, then the answer is probably yes. What do you think?
@@DroneFilmGuide Yes, it is quite amazing (for an old photographer like me, and I mean OLD) that software can make such a difference to what I had previously understood to be "fixed" in a RAW file. I also have Topaz Denoise, and I don't know whether it is me but I find it can create artifacts which only give the impression of sharpness (It's probably my bad technique). Whereas DxO PureRaw 2 appears to simply create a sharper and less noisy image, without lots of controls to have to tweak. I have to pay for the full Adobe Creative Cloud for my real job, so I am pretty resistant to spending extra money, but DxO PureRaw 2 is definitely going to be on my purchase list next month. Give it a try, it is a fully-functioning 30-day trial, I think you might like it, and I'd love to see what it can do to stills from your camera and drone collection. By the way, I have no connection with DxO, and I don't usually extoll the benefits of new software, but that's how amazed I am by it.
By the way, what is New in the v3 version of the masterclass?
Hey! The whole course has been overhauled to ensure it is absolutely up-to-date for 2022. We have also added three, 20-minute 'adventures' in the Scottish Highlands where we put some of the more theoretical parts of the course into practice. They are filmed in incredible locations and are an epic addition. The whole course is around 9 hours now. It's been refined, re-filmed, embellished and expanded since 2018 so it's 9 hours of intense, value-add content. Not a wasted word. We're very proud of it and the reviews support everything said here. It's a free upgrade for those who purchased Masterclass 2.0.
Thanks for the question and the opportunity to talk about it!
Do you need Luminar Neo and Luminar AI?
How can I save all the individual pictures so I can do the stiching myself?
Just make sure you are set to save JPEG plus raw. I think it’s demoed here at the start of the video.
Interesting the photo straight from DJI has less of the photo being shown
Some great tips Stewart. In terms of deployment. I’d be interested to see/know with such big colour adjustments if Luminar is ‘edge’ aware. By this, I mean the pixels ‘match’ in the equatorial rectangle (2x1) at the extremes if you’re making an interactive pano. If they don’t then what’s the fix? Perhaps displace the image and retouch the 2 pixel edge error (which appears as a line in VR)? Cheers and how come you get the sunshine? Been rained off twice in Moidart these last week or so.
That offer on Luminar Neo is a bargain right now. Thanks
Hey! I'll need to check if Luminar is edge-aware for 360 panos. Lightroom is but even for huge colour adjustments it can still throw up the join when viewed as a sphere. Affinity photo is brilliant for editing 360 spheres because you can edit in the sphere itself and smooth out any joins with the heal brush. You can see a walkthrough of it in our previous video.
To answer my own question… no Luminar is not edge aware (might want to tell their developers). Affinity Pro can in-paint for easy fix… but it might be worth stumping up for PTGUI if you’re committed. Just sayin’.
Cool 🤝🤟🏼
I've been looking for a Lightroom alternative because of their ridiculous yearly 'rental' fee. I have an old, one time purchase LR version without hdr merge capability. This looks like a great alternative. One question - does it also merge hdr photos?
A couple of days ago they launched an HDR extension for $49.
Loving these editing videos.
Only problem is I only edit on iPad and Lightroom for IOS doesn’t stitch images so I can’t create Panos on the iPad. Have you got any ideas? Other apps that will do it before importing into Lightroom.
Maybe Affinity Photo on the iPad? We used it in this video for desktop.
Hi Stewart downloaded Panorama Stitcher and kept the DNG as TIFF but was surprised to discover the file was only 72DPI. If I take a DNG file into Photoshop it it automatically converted to 300DPI. Any thoughts.
Have a look at the pixel count, it should be the same either way. DPI is mostly for prints not for image resolution. But make sure by looking at the resolution itself.
Hi Stewart, on my mini3 the dng files straight from the drone don’t seem crisp like the jpg’s, they look grainy in comparison. Is this right? Thanks Matti.
Hey! Shots all taken on 100 ISO? If so, they shouldn't really be more grainy than the jpegs.
What mic are you using in these presentations Stewart, and are you enhancing the sound to remove echo etc. ?
This is the DJI Mic. The audio you hear is just straight from the mic. There's a bit of echo in the room but it's okay.
@@DroneFilmGuide Thanks a mil 🙂and good luck 🍀
You talk the whole video about panoramas and don't give a link to an example
With so many people looking to you for advice and guidance, you really need to be careful with your terminology. 7:06 "there's a little bit of grain in the image". NO, there isn't! Grain is what you see in film. NOISE is what you're looking at in a digital image. Grain can be good in certain circumstances, and even artificially produced in the likes of NIK Silver Efex Pro, for example. Noise, however can never be good, which is why there is so much software around dedicated to minimising it.
Noted. Very happy you made it that far in the video!