How to do a 360 panorama with DJI Drone Using Adobe for Higher, Sharper resolution.

I'm a DJI enthusiast. Have several of their Drones. I love 360 panos. My first attempt was with the DJI Inspire 1, using Panotour Pro and Auto pano Giga. I took all the pictures manually and those programs would stitch them and make them ready for the web.. Then I tried the Hangar App , which was all automatic(both taking the pics and stitching). Pretty descent. Then DJI created a fantastic Sphere Mode Pano with the DJI Spark within the Go 4 App, which was introduced later to the other DJI drones, where all the pictures are automatically taken like the Hangar App, with a press of a button. Giga, Hangar and the Go 4 App use websites to share their panos. The neat thing about the Go 4 App method: it saves all the pictures in JPEG and RAW(DNG) files within the SD Card, giving us the option to manipulate the quality of every individual photo, before the stitching begins, giving us also the option to post directly to Facebook, by other applications.( Theta + App and 360facebook.com are faster ways to post to Facebook, but are more compressed, and do not provide the quality of the Adobe method) A former facebook friend of mine, Russell Brown, who works for Adobe, creates some awesome tutorials on the web. One video in particular caught my attention about 360 panos vimeo.com/2461... unfortunately he deleted video) His tutorial inspired me to try this Adobe method, which evolved into different experiments of my own.
After posting a few of my own Panos on the internet, several people asked me how I did it. I've shared Russell's videos over and over, but finally made my own(not a perfect tutorial. I noticed I made a mistake in the "filter offset" section. For that, check my other tutorials. ) I'm not doing this to get more subscribers, attention nor financial gain. It is simply for my own pleasure and a desire to inspire others like I was inspired by those who came before me. I fly for fun, and love the Perspective from above, and DJI drones , combined with other technologies , gives me that fun. So.. This video is about one of many methods of how to do a DJI 360 panorama with Adobe. Mavic Air was used here. Grabbed the DNG files saved in the Panorama folder ,saved in the SD card, after a Sphere Mode session under camera settings. This method produces a Higher/Sharper Resolution than the one done by the JPEG files and shared on Skypixel. Below is the final result from my tutorial as seen by Momento360. Hope you have fun doing your own Panos.
momento360.com...
another similar tutorial • DJI 360 panorama
new tutorial with Mavic 2 Pro vimeo.com/2909...
please check my channel for new, improved tutorials on the subject. I keep learning in the process and sharing them over internet . Cheers.

[@kravegolf]

the best video on how to do this by far!

[@mkhvisualaspect]

Hey Mate THANKS SO MUCH for this vid. The end product is awesome, Cheers for the well explained tutorial .

[@brendanlepeutrec214]

Thanks a lot ! Professional work. Amazing final 360 picture.

[@JallezJaleel]

Thank u so much for sharing this.

[@anthonybryantmedia]

Great work mate. Nice tutorial

[@binli3217]

Thank you very much for sharing.

[@knowbyheart_]

Sergio, I need you help on this. For some reason my sphere photos are never fully flat.

[@shaynemcmurdo1]

Awesome vid! Note: there is Spark lens correction filter around somewhere... someone created it.

[@shaynemcmurdo1]

Found it: forum.dji.com/thread-112382-1-1.html

[@hqcariello]

Shayne reason why I placed note in vid. Is if you choose lens correction in the option within adobe method, the merge won’t finalize when using Sparks stills. That has been my experience using THIS method . And the pano works just fine stitching the spark pictures leaving that unchecked.

[@shaynemcmurdo1]

Ahhh understand!

[@GrantJ]

Great info thanks, question thou - what is best way to share the 360's with clients if they wish to embed on their own websites? Cheers

[@hqcariello]

Grant J Great Question! I would get familiarized with Autopano Giga and Panotour Pro. That’s what I used when I had 360 panoramas in my website. But I have not used it in quite sometime, so, I’m not really remembering all the technical aspects of it.

[@muzza152]

Hi Sergio. Amazing photo and technique in doing this. I too am exploring how to get the best 360 from my Mavic Pro, so followed this with much interest. One question if I may...how do you get the horizon flat in the merge process, or is a step before, as my horizon always seems to bow upwards...I have used the boundary border setting before merging to bring it down a little but it is still bowed, which of course effects the final outcome. Any clues?? Thanks for sharing. Murray

[@hqcariello]

You must line up the horizon in picture with center of image area( either raise whole image up or stretch up )

[@kineticmikemr1612]

Thanks for sharing that, can you tell me what adobe programs you used to create it?

[@hqcariello]

Mike Rynn Photoshop, Bridge and Lightroom classic

[@fryc888]

My mavic takes 34 pictures when i select 360 panorama, and im really newbie in editing it - i cannot do anything with this set of pictures, Adobe is merging it into weird picture which does not look great + left and right sides are not at same height, which means after converting it into 360 using your way i've got moved horizon on edges...

[@hqcariello]

fryc888 are using Adobe Bridge to stitch?

[@fryc888]

@@hqcariello Yes. I've sent you PM on facebook, if you have a minute maybe.