Video Panorama
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Posted 2 years, 9 months ago at 4:34 am. 4 comments
Here’s a fast and easy way to make panoramas:
- Pan across and record what you want to capture with a video camera (or a digital camera with video mode).
- Export still images from the video. 2-3 frames per second should be good enough. Use Quicktime or mepg2dec.
- Stitch the photos together with your favourite panorama software. I have tried Photoshop, the one that comes with Canon and Autostitch. Autostitch is free, fast and made by UBC (my school)’s AI research lab.
The end result:
The original video (MP4 3.9 Mb):
The quality of the panorama image is crappy, since the video mode on my camera is primitive (320×240, fixed focus, exposure, white balance) . A DV or any modern DC should do a much better job.
A shameless plug:
All my better-quality(those that were made from still shots) panoramas can be seen here.
interesting the orders of photos on your site and your flickr’s seems to be opposite
I think you were comparing at wrong places. Look within a set, the order is the same. The flickr home directory is sorted by date uploaded (most recent first), which is same as the “Recent Photos” category on my site.
Hey, cool idea! :) Much quicker than taking a bunch of stills… unless you got that multi-shot mode that you just hold down the button. Couldn’t watch the original vid cuz Flash 8 isn’t available for Linux, but I’ll live. (They’re going straight to 8.5, apparently.)
Yeah, it’s a quick and dirty way.
“Continuous shots” mode will not work because the shutter is too slow, compare to how fast you pan. Blurry pics for sure, and not recording while the shutter is closed, too. Anyhoo, our canon is only up to 5 shots max at one time (2.5 fps), so you will end up pausing every 5 shots.
:grr_sg: Asking for Flash8 is a little too demanding, I agree.
http://siuyee.com/wp-content/videos/pano.mp4 (3.9 Mb)