P: Add ability for pano merge feature to read gimbal position metadata from drone filesOpen for Voting
Stitching panos is especially problematic when there's a clear blue or otherwise featureless sky. Often, in fact virtually always, LrC chops off corners of the sky that were in the original captures. It's also nearly impossible to shoot a 3x3 with the horizon perfectly centered, which is normally desirable to maintain verticals. LrC will essentially chop off the entire top of the sky and screw up the perspective of the remainder. The only workaround is to center the captures slightly below the horizon so the top row has some ground included at the bottom. Oh, and a large expanse of water in the lower portion of the pano can also be problematic. Before LrC added the pano feature, I had been using PanoramaStudio Pro (I'm currently using v4.xx), which has an option in its initial Align dialog to "place non-aligned images using metadata." This evidently reads gimbal position metadata from the files, and I don't believe I've ever had it fail. But using that app involves a much slower, more
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