jimmyd
Posts: 174
Location: United States
Registered: 6 Nov 2004
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Finalizing my workflow
Posted: 6 Aug 2008 at 20:27 GMT
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Hey guys,
So I am finally coming around the bend with a solid workflow that allows me to produce a decent final product. I need help however with my last couple steps. My current workflow is as follows, shooting with a Canon 10D, NN3, 8mm 3.5 Sigma.
1)Shoot images in raw, 3 set brackets
2)In CS3 edit CA, Vig, and WB (if needed) synced for all images. Maybe a bit of sharping at this point. Save as 16 bit TIFF.
3)Enfuse to blend the brackets into one set of files.
4)On the 8mm and my tripod I get a little bit of the tripod legs and head in the lower frame. I alpha mask those out along with my legs in the handheld shot and save once again as 16 bit tiff.
5)Stitch and optimize in PTgui, with smartblend.
6)CS3 -- unsharp mask. Resize to 6000 X 3000.
This is where I get a little lost.
7)Open tiff pano in Pano2QTVR to create cubes so I can extract the nadir shot and repair. Should I still be saving the cubes in tiff? or JPEG? I use FPP which doesn't seem able to create a final product using tiff.
Should I save as tiff cubes, then edit the nadir, then save the cubes to JPEG in photoshop.
If that is the case, with 6 cubes what size should they be, or what should be the total amount of the image?
Basically what it comes down to is how I finish off my workflow, to preserve quality and export the best possible VT.
Thanks..
j
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Mark Schuster
Posts: 1321
Location: Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom
Registered: 25 Jan 2006
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Re: Finalizing my workflow
Posted: 7 Aug 2008 at 1:05 GMT
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Jimmy
Stick to TIFFs as long as you can. TIFF images are less prone to degradation when saving and re-saving than JPEGs. Once you have retouched the nadir why not convert back to a TIFF equirectangular and keep it for possible later use. When you are satisfied, and if you must, save a JPEG version of it for FPP.
If you use Pano2VR you can turn out very good Flash panoramas directly from TIFF (equirectangulars or cube faces - and more) but perhaps not with all the features available with FPP (I think cos' I've never tried it - no free trial available, and I'm not keen on shelling out for something till I've tried it).
Mark
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Danilo
Posts: 64
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Registered: 19 Nov 2007
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Re: Finalizing my workflow
Posted: 7 Aug 2008 at 4:35 GMT
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Hi,
I also use FPP, it works only with JPG...
In my workflow i make TIFF cubes and convert them into JPG in CS2, this way I can try different compressions (use for each cube the same compression).
The size of the output file depends on your needs, I always use 10000 x 5000, I keep total size between 3 and 3,5 MB. This will give me a verry good quality output file.
Amanda
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lbjohnik
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Location: Sweden
Registered: 10 Mar 2007
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Re: Finalizing my workflow
Posted: 7 Aug 2008 at 19:22 GMT
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Hi,
Let me suggest "superrune", or "spherical to cubic", that you can use in step 6 with photoshop. That way you have a picture totaly ready for pano2qtvr/pano2vr. I think you understand if you look at:
www.superrune.com/technical/software_spheretocubi...
Best regards,
Johan
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