wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: advice please on resolution/size problems
chris 2004-Apr-08 12:45:00
kw_japan2004 wrote:
> I used Panocube to generate my .MOV file and used the script.txt to
> vary the settings until my movie was under the required size... uses
> Panotools to generate the MOV so you first have to teach it where
> PTStitcher is...
>
> http://www.panoshow.com/panocube.htm
This sounded like a better tool than VRMakePano and it certainly has
some clear instructions.
however I tried it with the PTStitcher that came with PTGUI and the
PTStitcher with panorama tools 2.5a
and in both cases it comes up with an error saying I am using a version
of panorama tools that does not support wide angle views.
I tried images of two sizes:
14472 x 7236 and half that: 7236 x 3618 and 40%: 5788 x 2892
All gave the same error message :(
>
> Original input image for the small movie was 5000x2500 pixels (2000Kb
> JPEG)and final movie size was 690Kb... Fullscreen was 10000x5000
> (8600Kb JPEG) and movie size was 2129Kb... I think the quality of
> each image is acceptable though on the FS version you can see JPEG
> artifacts if you zoom in too much... esp in the sky around the
> towers... you should be able to achieve better results than you
> have...
>
> http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/html/KeithWILSON.html
>
> A couple of other things I would suggest...
> 1. Try using the Auto Contrast / Brightness option from PTGui... may
> help to balance your images
> 2. Output a Photoshop layered file and try to manually correct any
> really visible seams... I had to do this to remove some people from
> my pano
> 3. Your pano seems to have a lot of embedded Hotspots which may be
> affecting your filesize... have no idea how VRMakepano works... the
> hotspots don't seem right to me...
Don't know - I did not do anything to put hot spots in and VRMakePano
has no options - nothing.
>
> If you are still having difficulties... I'm sure there are many
> people who can help... maybe post your images somewhere for us to
> have a play... good luck
>
Well, ok, there are 12 images for a single row 360 cylindrical (I was
rotating by hand on a small tripod and
trying for good enough overlap to enable easy stitching).
It's 21MB and here: http://www.planet-earth.org/wwp/send.zip
cheers,
and thanks for the advice,
chris