DJI MINI 3 PRO // ULTIMATE WORKFLOW FOR STUNNING 360 SPHERE PANORAMAS!

[@stevencarey5407]

I’m glad to see someone else get excited about 360 photos. I’ve been doing this a lot with all of my DJI drones. There were lots of comments about places to post 360 photos but if you really want to get blown away, then sideload the photos onto an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset and have a look. Absolutely breathtaking…….

[@gilbertguerin9080]

Steven, you are damned right. Even with the cheapest oculus Gear vr and a decent Samsung phone, it is absolutely breathtaking. You absolutely need to sit down to see the picture as you are so immersed in the spot and get so confused in the different senses. Mind blowing.

[@z33r0now3]

what app do you use to view 360° pics in your Quest2? I have the Rift S and might have to look for equivalent software if the same is not existent across devices.

[@PHOT0GUY]

@@z33r0now3 Pigasus is a good viewer I use on the Quest2 and it handles higher res pics than deo vr.

[@z33r0now3]

@@PHOT0GUY thx a lot mate 🙏

[@garychap8384]

I just got my Mini 4 Pro last week and I didn't even know this was possible. I already have a Quest 3 and I've seen some lovely 3D Pano's .... If you're high up the Stereoscopic 3D doesn't matter so much, but ... ... man, can you imagine if DJI ever manage to squeeze stereoscopic cameras onto a sub 250 drone? The FPV and Panos would be so amazing I'd prolly just give them my wallet. LOL

[@BirdzEyeViewAV]

Your excitement is contagious! Thanks for the video!!

[@Bengalfan]

I have just finished watching this excellent video numerous times. Thank you for preparing this. I am trying to prepare a 360 panorama shot with my Mini 3 Pro from the 26 .DNG images. I have stitched the images with Panorama Stitcher. It looks fine in Spherical Viewer. I then take the stitched .jpg into Affinity Photo and proceed through the steps to resize the canvas to give a 2:1 aspect as required for a 360 video. I fill in the necessary sky in Affinity Photo and I then export the image as a .jpg from Affinity Photo. I then take this .jpg image into ExifFixer to replace the incorrect meta data. The .jpg produced by ExifFixer looks fine in Spherical Viewer. However, when. I create a library in Final Cut Pro and import the image, Final Cut Pro immediately crashes with a long crash report. This happens only when I try to stick together a spherical image from .dng files and put the resulting .jpg into FCP. If I use the spherical .jpg image stitched by the Mini 3 Pro it works fine in FCP and does not price a crash. However, I would prefer the additional image quality available from the stitched .dng created panorama. Can anyone please help me understand why this stitched .jpg from the above process always crashes FCP? Thank you.

[@RonaldBrown59]

Like, I used to never much attention to this feature until recently. Mostly because I thought the only way you could view them was on your phone in the DJI app, Once I discovered you could share them online via Facebook to non techie friends, I saw the value. And now after watching your video, I see there are even more options on what you can do with these files. Great content Stewart, and thanks for sharing.

[@waltermenzel6937]

Hi Stewart, as always: your tutorials are just as great as your drone pictures and videos. 360 sphere panoramas from DJI Mini 3 Pro however are much easier to edit in 2023 than a year ago. (No more filling out holes in the sky etc.). But there's one thing that doesn't seem to work: At 2:50 min. of your video you suggest importing the equirectangular 360 image as a JPEG into Insta360 Studio to edit it as a movie , transforming it into "Little Planets" etc.. Have YOU tried this lately? Well, it doesn't work with me. Not with the latest software and not on my M1 MacBook Pro. Insta 360 Studio doesn't seem to like DJI Mini 3 Pro Sphere equirectangulars. Do you or anyone else out there have an idea how to solve this?

[@gilbertguerin9080]

Hi Stewart, Nice video. Have been doing this here since P3P. With Mini 3, you may want to let Dji Fly take automatically the pano, then manually at the same spot take manually the necessary missing pics with the camera facing up in vertical mode. On PC, then use Kolor Autopano Giga (officially discontinued by GoPro since they bought the company few years ago - what a stupid move). You can still find some version of the software even if not officially sold or maintained. Often results are still better with the last official published version than with the latest ptgui. No need then to reconstruct the sky.

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Fantastic Tip Gilbert! I'm thinking a follow-up video will be necessary!

[@gilbertguerin9080]

@@DroneFilmGuide Dji will most probably add the missing row in a future update, if they are not too lazy. That should be fairly easy... On previous generations Litchi has also some improved tricks to take 360 Panos, making the process a lot more customizable if need be.

[@DroneFilmGuide]

@@gilbertguerin9080 Another great tip. I'll add FSPViewer to the list in the pinned comment at the top.

[@falklumo]

+1 on Autopano. The real problem is NOT the missing row (although it is too). It is that the automated pano images are in 12MP rather than 48MP. The final pano has much better resolution when shooting ALL images manually in 48MP. AFAIK, Eisenegger here on YT works on a software to automatize the process with a Mini 3 Pro, he already does this for other DJI drones using the DJI SDK. Stitching the sky with a zenith is non trivial if there isn't enough structure. Autopano Giga and structured stitching with stitching metadata is highly recommended.

[@gilbertguerin9080]

@@falklumo That is where the last row in vertical portrait mode gets the job done (usually). For automating it needs the sdk as you said, ant it will take most probably one year from the drone launch date if previous trend is respected. Litchi is then a very good solution to play with panorama as there are many options to customize how it is taken, hopefully here also with the 48 Mp resolution. An exhilarating functionality is also the planning of flight with waypoint, camera orientation, poi... It opens so much fun and creative opportunity. Dronelink is also so good for preflight visualization as it is possible from planning to see the final result and then reframe accordingly before even being in air. For Panos, it is possible to plan the path and automatize the shoots at different places of the automated flight. These drones are then so capable since p3p.

[@robbristow]

Great Video Stewart. I have been stitching Panos for about 12 years and am still using an original piece of software on my 2020 iMac - AutoPano Giga 4.4 Does a great job. The affinity editing was impressive with the raw image.

Hi Stewart, I loved your great explanation about the 360 panorama. It was all clear except for one little but vital detail (or did I miss it?): what exif data do we need to import in the EXIF Fixer software to be able to see the 360 in it's right proportions in the spherical viewer?

[@HD-Warrior]

Just updated to latest FW DJI mini 3 PRO (18th August 2022) which tells us the camera can now capture more sky. Fine but when I look at my folders I have MEDIA & PANORAMA. I have a 360 JPEG but no DNG files any ideas and should the SPHERE files be in the Panorama files. (PS I have got JPEG and RAW chosen) Thought it may have been a lack of space on the card but out of a 256G card I still have 242G left.

[@OregonPanoramas]

Your video was immensely helpful. Panorama stitcher and Affinity photo was the ticket !!!! Cheers for a great video!

[@edwardsp1916]

I've been using the 360 to add to Google Street view. The lower Res from the Mini 3 are so much better than from the Mini 2 and are more than good enough for Stree View.

[@naserion7949]

is it possible to add a spherical aerial panorama into Street View?

[@SteveEdmondsTV]

Hi Stewart. Great vid...but a quick question. The auto-stitch JPEG 360 panos I'm creating are only 12.8 MB file size. Is this what you are getting? This seems small considering it's a composite of 26 photos.

[@eysteinkallhovde9551]

Excellent video. Is it possible to make an inverted panorama, i.e. looking in rather than out, without creating a point cloud 3D model?

[@RealLagu]

This is one of the reasons Im getting the mini 3 pro this or next week. I was just scrolling thru my gallery a few weeks ago when I came across an old 360 picture I took a few years ago with my mavic 2 zoom that I have sold a long time ago. The picture was so freaking amazing to look at that it instantly made me think about getting a new drone..

[@stephendoggett190]

What a unique and brilliant video tutorial Stewart! Another one to bookmark for the future.

[@justalittledaf]

Love your videos. I use a Windows laptop. Recently purchased Affinity Photo 2. I recently shot a 360 "Spherical" Panorama with my DJI Air 2S and tried using the 26 DNG's generated from it to create a better 360 image (using Affinity Photo 2) than the JPG image that is automatically generated by the drone, but can't figure out how to properly remove the alpha areas, stitch, and generate a viewable 360 image (using Affinity Photo 2). I'm ok up to the point where I choose either to crop or impaint the alpha areas on the panorama, but am lost after that. Any suggestions on how to figure out the last steps using Affinity Photo 2 ONLY?

[@allanlhall1991]

Just wondering what lap top are you editing with ?

[@DavidMorris-pq4jq]

I can't seem to find a clear answer to this question: When you take a 180 degree panorama, or the wide angle shot from the dji mini 3 (or mini 3 pro), does the software within the drone or controller stitch the photos together, or do you need some external software to do it? I tried with my mini 3, and couldn't even find the photos on the chip. It seemed to take them, but I never found them, processed or not.

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Hey! Unless something went very wrong, the stitched JPEG will have been saved. However, you need to go into the settings and instruct it to save the individual component photos or they won't be saved - only the output.

[@panomaniac5399]

Microsoft ICE does a great job with my drone 360 stitching. Then I cludged in the missing zenith with PS elements. But I was looking for a MacOS workflow and you provided all the clues. Thanks!

[@panomaniac5399]

BTW, I was using PTGui for normal panoramas way back in 2003 and still have scars from the experience. Never again.

[@TaccRaccoon]

No ipados version?

[@janisneilands76]

Hey, Could you please tell me what is your presets exporting from Affinity photo, If I export in JPEG- exif fixer opens only as Cylindrical and won't let me trigger Equirectangular option and clear the data.

[@kaladinstormblessed1055]

Wicked video! Thank you for sharing. Is the first bit of footage in the fisherfields?

[@alanabley525]

Thank you for this. Can you tell me the best software to add titles and labels to the panos. I have an older PS version on my Mac and FCP.

[@mannipearce3357]

Fantastic tutorial, will be trying these methods for sure soon

[@jeremiahmarkusmedia6915]

Hi Stewart thank you for posting this! Great seeing some options other than PT.gui... Do you have a workflow for sharing and posting the 360? Or handing off the 360s to clients? I've heard that it is possible to upload to google photos and wordpress.. Anywys hope to hear from you soon! cheers :)

[@Banquet...]

How awesome - thanks so much for the tutorial. I tried my first pano with the Mini 3 last week but it was the 180 one... now I'm going to have to try the 360!

[@StevenPeeters]

Slightly off-topic question: ND filters for the mini 3 Pro, yes or no? Does your point of view you shared on the Mavic Mini and ND filters still stand for this one? Or is it a more applicable to this one becasue we get a bit more control in the other variables?

[@P07AT0]

NDs are the same on all drones. If its too bright when you put correct shutter speed you need an ND. If its not then you dont need one and thats it.

[@tomkaiser]

You are a genius Stuart, thanks for sharing this process!

[@bcproductionsinc.5403]

So hoping you're still enjoying doing 360's. I have a question since I've been away from this for a while. I started doing 360's before it was the thing to do, in fact I even did this underwater with flash which as far as I know no one has masted this to date using flash. I have all my 360 images still in Quicktime and swf files as well as raw all done with a dslr many from a chopper. When online was demanding the files to be html5 I gave up, I see the tech aspect has changed and it appears the files can now be in other formats. My question can you tell me which format I need to have now in order to apply to a website or maybe just a facebook page. I do have around 350, 360 images complete. TIA

[@DreadinNY]

I come for the funky intro music!

[@stardrone]

I am struggling to figure out which drone to purchase for my real estate photography business. I am stuck between mini 3 and air2s, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Love your videos and how you make things so much fun to do. TiA

[@DJIDroneTravel]

Where you based Jerry? If in Europe then you need mini 3 pro as it’s under 250kg 👍

[@stardrone]

@@DJIDroneTravel US

[@falklumo]

@@DJIDroneTravel > If in Europe then you need mini 3 pro as it’s under 250kg Not with the property owner's permission.

[@KnightmareOX]

I keep wrestling with that myself. Part of me wants the higher quality images of the air 2s but the other part of me wants the portrait mode and high tilt angle of the mini 3

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Air 2S is technically better for photos (20mp vs 12mp) but 12mp is still plenty. Being able to shoot RAW on the Mini 3 Pro is phenomenal and if you need more dynamic range because the sun is behind the house for example then you can bracket the photos and create and HDR image. I'd say both these drones meet/exceed the requirements for real estate photography.

[@arthurebrahimi8488]

Wow! Thanks for your vid. I am using the mini 2 and have noticed that the panaroma's are not stitched together. It is saved as a bunch of loose images in a separate map. Is that normal?

[@chrisf5475]

I’ve just got a new lightroom / photoshop subscription after clinging onto my old LR5 until it literally refused to work any longer (Mac update forced by other software)…. So, I’ve downloaded the Pano Stitcher software to copy your workflow with my DJI Mini 3 360 photos… and I noticed the stitcher doesn’t export a DNG / RAW file. Should it? I hoped to be able to work on the highlights and shadows in the stretched image the same way I’ve always done in my RAW images.

[@Smoobly]

How do you take the RAW photos on the drone? Do you use the app? Or just manually swirl the drone around taking 48mp photos of everything? Thanks!

[@DroneFilmGuide]

There's a setting in the menu that makes sure you save the raw files along with the exported 360 shot.

[@Smoobly]

Thanks man! Found them 😊

[@phoenixmediaforge]

This is just what I needed! I ditched Adobe in 2016 and have been using AF since. I also have a Mini 3 Pro and I want to use the DNG files for making 360s. Thanks so much!

[@JoshuaDircks]

Great workflow! Thanks for figuring all this out. Tried a quick one at the house and it was a lot of fun.

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Great to hear! Cheers!

[@Parkwad]

The software update is out for full spherical photos. Updated video?

[@darianrundallmedia1305]

From what I can tell MS ICE is toast. Any other PC options?

[@martinsmith4330]

Sorry but I’m having trouble when getting rid of the zenith I can’t get back to view the photo or know how you save it. Also having trouble with the pano stitcher

[@carpedrone8636]

I also use ptgui, with my old Mavic Air 2 drone, all good. I recently got a Mini 3... it takes more shots fot the sky, which is an issue when the sky is perfectly blue, it won't get the control points. How would you do in such cases, just get rid of the sky pictures and align only those with matching points? Fun fact the preview works, but the create panorama is disabled... it's quite frustrating... maybe I'll report this to the ptgui dev ;)

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Hey folks! Any additional suggestions for viewing, stitching and editing 360 panoramas? So far we've had: - Google Maps - Kolor Autopano Giga - Reshoot 360 (iOS) - FSPViewer (PC & Mac) - VRMediaPlayer (Android) - Kuula.co - PanoramaStudio 3

[@franspels5046]

PanoramaStudio 3

[@2Bluzin]

Ricoh Theta 360 had a great viewer app for both PC and phone.

[@danaprice6719]

I I forgot how good you are! Thanks!

[@DroneFilmGuide]

That’s a very kind comment, thank you!

[@tyalderdice4980]

I will look for those settings once I get my drone in about 2 weeks

[@SingaporeDonoghues]

WOW !!! Sharing this level of knowledge & time spent is astounding. Love it. 😁 ( Wish I had a Mac , but will work away to find PC ALTs ) 👍

[@iZacq]

After we get the Mini 3 pro They say it comes with Free Editing Software How do we Edit videos, do we download the Software or Upload it to there site & Edit it Wondering how we do Edit Videos we shoot with the Dji Mini 3 Pro ? Thanks

[@AetherScout]

Any idea what % overlap there is with a wide angle panorama?

[@iqueque]

It’s so great to witness your excitement Stewart. On a more prosaic level, which Dji drone would you recommend to a first time, still photography user? I really doubt my need for, or ability to learn, video editing whilst comfortable with 25 years experience in Photoshop and Lightroom processing providing me with all the entertainment I want. I think the pano stitching and exposure bracketing features are where I’m most keen to try.

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Thanks! Anything that shoots raw. So Mini 2 upwards really. Smaller sensor doesn't really matter for aerial photos unless you're really planning on shooting a lot in low light. Otherwise just slow the shutter down a bit. The AEB mode is fantastic, as are the panorama modes. Plus you can save the individual raw pano photos and take them into Lightroom for a better outcome. The more expensive drones will give you 20mp photos vs 12mp photos so that's up to you if that's important but otherwise you're paying mainly for video features and better drone performance. From a photo-only perspective the differences are not as stark.

[@camerashakeproductions9098]

I keep coming back to this video for the instructional content. Thank you. This is great stuff!

[@sim2g]

You can use these 360 photos in Blender 3D to realistically light your scenes. Great video, thank you for your upload. Big and fat like.

[@KarlDeckerPresents]

Great plan MAN! Panning and tilting in a shot like that, maybe add just a touch of shake in post and you have a super sweet "360 video" like clip, that would be perfect for me! Thanks!!!

[@danh8815]

Have you guys got an epidemic sound a discount code? It looks amazing but link doesn’t work - need a discount code. Many thanks

[@John1986ATR]

Great walkthrough! Do you have a recommendation for where is best to host 360 photos for full quality and embedding into a website?

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Cheers! No, for embedding on a website that's not something we've done I'm afraid.

[@georgekelly1948]

Lots of fun, Stewart.

[@47foxtrotcharlie]

I recently did a 360 inside a derelict bell tower and it appears that the zenith has now been fixed.

[@airbnbphotography]

sad that lazy DJI does not provide an app :( The window version you suggest is like 10 years old not running on new 64 bit systems !

[@MoviesSam]

I use the Panorama Stitcher but I can't upload the result to Facebook. It fails everytime. It looks beautiful on Spherical Viewer for Mac. Love to have suggestions.

[@Jason__________]

How did you figure this All out! Geez. Very cool

[@FotomanCalgary]

Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) isn't available anymore from MS.....

[@CanadaModel3]

I have a question shot a video on my new DJI mini 3 and and my iPhone 12 Pro Max When in LumaFusion and trying to upload it kept crashing or giving me an error I figured out it was the drone footage so I removed it but obviously I would rather keep it any idea what my issue might be? I did optimize and consolidate.

[@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航]

Will be useful when VR finally starts to pick up.

[@Ashmodai]

the most important things I just learned... I need a drone and affintiy has content aware fill... I DIDN'T KNOW!!!! DAMN!

[@AsItReallyIs]

The DJI drones still doesnt do 180 degrees?? my nearly 4 year old anafi does that with ease and at great resolution as well. I am also shocked they have only just added tracking now, which again my anafi does, I am interested in the video capabilities of this mini 3 though

[@ScottOwens28]

Can these 360 spherical images be set to shoot raw dng's?

[@WatermarquePaul]

Stewart, you missed to mention the best place to post (and view) these 360 images, Google Maps! I've done it using Google Streetview and the uploaded resolution is way better than Facebook. The GPS metadata is retained of course so you view the image at the location on the map. Great video as usual :)

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Fantastic Paul, thanks for the suggestion!

[@bmaniac2061]

Hi, nothing you can do with Luminar AI or others that they offered for editing 360 photos? Thanks

[@RabeTV]

Ok but how did you take the photos?

[@P100KLE]

I’ve used my phantom 4 pro to do 360’s for a long time.. long drawn out process tho Using dronepan/ 360pano app to take 5AEB RAW Merge in Lightroom and edit Stitch in autopano giga Import into photoshop on a template with guides to line up horizon and export. Gutted that you can’t use 3rd party apps with the mini 3 pro yet. So I’ll have to take AEB shots manually rotating and panning around hoping that I have enough overlap I find that using the built in stitching in the app is poor.. stitching errors and over exposed sky just doesn’t do it for me when I’ve been spending time doing it the long way.

[@luqmannel9229]

i already use image composite editor (ICE) for 360 panorama.

[@StevenPeeters]

Does the drone only give you jpg pictures? Or does the sphere quickshot also give you the option to shoot RAW and use those individual images for the trickery?

[@DroneFilmGuide]

This is the sphere panorama (not quickshot). So yes, it does give you the photos.

[@falklumo]

@@DroneFilmGuide It delivers RAWs, But it does NOT deliver 48 MP :(

[@ive595]

Great video guys thank you, I currently edit 99% of my photos and videos on iPad, either Lightroom of LumaFusion. The only time I have to use my home computer is for merging photos for panorama’s. Are you aware of any app that will stitch the photos together before editing in Lightroom, as you cannot do it on the IOS version of Lightroom. Thanks again.

[@mousi]

Great tutorial, thank you. I just bought panorama stitcher but I've noticed it only uses 17/26 DNG files and leaves a hole at the bottom, what am I missing?

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Hey! Can't explain that I'm afraid. Worked a treat for us every time. You tried it with another batch of photos?

[@mousi]

@@DroneFilmGuide I did, it works for some of them but not for all. I contacted support as well and apparently: "Holes in a panorama usually means photos have not enough overlap (or image detail in overlap) for automatic stitching. We are working on update that will use DJI drone metadata, but in current version we are relying on image details in overlap for stitching. So make sure photos have enough overlap, for now it is the only solution." Of course I can't really control the overlap so I guess I'll have to wait for the DJI metadata fix

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Interesting. So for the ones that were unsuccessful, was the ground very dark and lacking detail by any chance - therefore making it tricky for the software to match the joins?

[@mousi]

@@DroneFilmGuide The photos were in the Norwegian fjords so I took some of them where the drone was above the sea. I think those ones are the ones that failed mainly. I’ve seen the same issue with Microsoft ICE and also some other trial software but that last one suggested to use metadata for the stitching and worked after that

[@JohnRobinsonRC]

Yep I HAVE to leave a like for this one. So much useful information given at a pace that is easy to understand. Much appreciated! Just have to save for the actual drone now! 😂😂😂👌 Regards from Malta!

[@oneofusall]

Use wayback machine to get newest version of ICE, it's way better than the one in the link

[@garychap8384]

Beautiful work. I'm going to throw 'Doris' (my Mini 4 pro) up tomorrow and try to figure out clean Linux/Win workflows for this. Thanks man o/

[@atacamaltd]

Great explanation - cheers Stewart!

[@kevinmoriartyphotors]

Just fantastic Stewart

[@wrx202]

I use the sphere feature but they come misaligned in some sections.

[@FstoptrainingUK]

The mini 4 Pro automatically includes the zenith. So there's no need to add it in post.

[@RawFish_photo]

HELP! My dji mini 2 creates a ".HTML" file and I don´t know how to read it. Can´t open it on photoshop or in any 360 viewer.

[@DannyPeron]

Thanks for this tutorial. It also can be applied to my mini 2 raw 360 pano image.

[@ZeroSilence]

10:43 Excited too. Thanks 👍👍👍

[@Philippsalzgeber]

I have been playing with 360 degree panoramas since about 1999, using a coolpix 950, and later a coolpix 4500, then PTGui was free, and I had quite a few very low resolution panos on my website, displayed using a Java Applet (does anyone remember what that is?). Later I did two or three panos with a DSLR and an 8mm fisheye, but found the process too cumbersume for my hobbyist taste. Using a dji Mini 2 and an Air 2s I have taken quite a few panaramas and published them on Google Maps, mostly the automated jpeg version. I did a few DNG panos using Hugin, also replacing the sky in a convoluted process, that often was not completely successful using Photoshop. I was very intrigued by the fact that the dji mini can tilt the camera upwards, and I assume in vertical mode it can completely cover the Zenith, so this video was very useful to me, as I have now learned that his feature is not available yet. I just downloaded Autopana Giga and will have a try at the DNGs I have been capturing all the time while producing just the jpg output. I would also wish that the panorama images would not always start with new numbers, as that messes with my regular lightroom import method. Thanks for the video, it was fun seeing your enthusiam and the content and the comments are really interesting.

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Thanks for your message Philipp! For the numbering (on a Mac) you can use Automator to batch add some text to the file names. So you could put "Scotland_" before the "DNG0001" for example. Cheers!

[@Craig-Mitchell]

Well this is astonishing 😮 Thanks a mil and good luck 🍀

[@BlairAir]

Well, at least your were calm, studious and unemotional in the intro! I've always loved spherical photography, and the gallery viewer on current Samsung phones let's you look at them multiple ways, pano, sphere, all movable by motion of the phone. Not sure about Apple, but I assume they either do, or an app would do the same.

[@lynsmith1096]

Great video Stuart

[@bunkermagnus]

Super video, thank you, I can add another riddle though as with the lastest firmware releases from DJI Mini 3 Pro it will take pictures of zenith but the Panorama sticher can't always place them into the panorama as it is contrasless cloudy or clear blue pictures that the algorith can't place correctly, so sometimes the app won't take advantage of the full DJI coverage. Anyway great video!

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Hey! Planning to get out and try this. I saw the firmware update but do you actually get the full sphere now?

[@bunkermagnus]

@@DroneFilmGuide I believe so, the drone takes 35 images with every spherical panorama press. So the Zenith is there, IF the sphere stitcher algoritm can distinguish the more constrast/detail free images. I have stitched 2 panoramas so far with 35 DNG RAW images each. One panorama with cloudy weather it didn't manage to place the clouds around zenith so it only imported 27/35 and the other panorama with a sunset in it, it managed to import all 35 images but it still left small black stretches at 10 and 14 o'clock if you know what I mean. So I guess the repair with Affinity photo will still be required in most cases, it's just how extensive the repairs are that's the question.

[@DroningaboutIreland]

Will the Insta360 desktop app work for this Stewart?

[@DroningaboutIreland]

I spoke too soon 😂

[@KillZoneGamingdude]

Amazing video !

[@schulzroy]

Actually, this was one of the features I tried first and now I fell in love with tiny planets. 🌍😍 However, I didn't try VR yet. This is still in my to do list.

[@craigondrak]

Hey, have you had a chance to put these into VR? I'm looking at doing something similar where capture 360 photos with my mini pro 3 and put them in a VR app

[@schulzroy]

@@craigondrak Well, not true VR because I don't have VR googles. But I have an app now on macOS called Spherical Viewer. It lets you view 360 panoramas fullscreen and turn around in them like if you point a camera in every direction you like. With my big screen it is amazing as if you are at the scene looking around.

[@roystevenson9191]

outstanding, thank you.

[@bobby_4747]

Off topic, but are you guys going to do a video on the Mavic 3 update? I’ve been waiting to hear your take on the 7x camera now! 😂

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Sure thing! It's on the to-do list. Want to get it up to these mountains in Scotland and do just that, use that 7x camera now it's got some proper control.

[@NickHarbornePhotography]

Fabulous 👌 im an affinity user well novice and this is excellent for me. I will need to watch it a hundred times probably but worth it thanks 😊

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Great stuff Nick!

[@nicolasmonastirsky]

Amazing video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@furtherupthetrack7583]

Stewart thanks for the video 👍

[@marketing3d]

Man! That was a great video! Thanks

[@europa504]

I've been trying to follow this through with my own file but I get stuck at the 5:14 point of the video. After doing the first inpaint and deselecting the selection tool I can't seem to get back to the scrollable pano to go to the second part of the zenith. All I have is just the current section of the sky. What am I missing? Edit: Come out of the Live projection!

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Good point. Press Control+Command+P and it will give you the navigation cursor back to scroll to the second part of the zenith. Alternatively, go to Layer > Live Projection > Edit Live Projection.

[@europa504]

@@DroneFilmGuide Thanks.

[@capt.gregrahe7615]

Great video and very informative, thanks!

[@PufiesNyufikalandjai]

My drone just arrived and I still could not try it because it is constantly raining in Isle of Skye. 😭😭Till I just watch your videos. Absolutely enjoying btw. 🥰🥰🥰

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Fantastic! We got lucky with the weather in Skye!

[@PufiesNyufikalandjai]

@@DroneFilmGuide Yeah I watched all your latest videos and surprised. I mean we have nice weather sometimes but I'm working most of those sunny days. 🤣🤣🤣 Anyway I just wanted to ask you with the fixed F1.8 on the mini 3 if I recording 25fps and double the shutter speed to be 50 what I can do if the weather one day gonna be nice and sunny? Just put on an ND filter or how far can I go with the s.s. ?

[@DroneFilmGuide]

@@PufiesNyufikalandjai Good question. We have NDs coming soon but the max ND is 64. I suspect that might not be enough to get the shutter down to 1/50th if you have a scene where direct sunlight is hitting something white for example. The previous drones were normally f/2.8 and they definitely required the full 'power' of the ND64 on a sunny day. Worst case though, 1/80 or 1/100 is still an improvement on 1/4000th.

[@PufiesNyufikalandjai]

@@DroneFilmGuide Thank you for your help. I have an ND filters now just need some sunny days to try it. And I'll see how it looks like with those set ups. Thanks again.👋👋

[@roystevenson9632]

Outstanding, thank you.

[@KodyKline]

Excellent Video - Thank you.