“PanoVolo provides good value for your money. It does a great job stitching drone panoramas where more expensive software packages have some difficulty particularily in colour shifts between images in the sky. PanoVolo provides all the basic tools needed to stitch a high quality pano. I have had some difficulties with PanoVolo stitches on the Tele lenses on my Mavic 3 Pro drone. My other drones with a wide angle lens have not had any problems.”
“The stitching works, however the website is misguidding people. It is no better as the panorama that comes from your drone, since it has a low bitrate. After communicating the developer, it is confirmed that when stitching the photos, the original bitrate of the raw photos does not get retained. The final output is masked as a dng file, while having the qualities of a jpg, so not flexible to edit at all.”
Hello Xhuljano,
It is true that _some_ drones can stitch panoramas in the drone, but
- Not all drone models support in-drone stitching
- The panorama resolution is limited
- You cannot stitch from DNGs
- You don't have a choice in panorama projection
- You cannot correct stitching errors
- You cannot export 16 bit TIFFs
As for the quality, when DNGs are used as source images, we use 16 bit processing throughout, so the entire dynamic range of RAW data is used.
“I had previously purchased another application costing around $250. It does not fill in the sky, nor does it attempt to blend the left and right sides. This often gives you an obvious seam where the images wraps around. Panovolo does both of these things quite well. It also does a nice job blending "flat" panos, better than some photo apps. So, for $30, it's a bargain.”
“Very nice that it allows for batch processing and automaticallly fills the sky for a very raesonable price.
The results have always been great with no issues to date.
One thing I would like is for it to use the GPU. I'm assuming it isn't doing that simply because it is so much slower than other 360 stiching software I use. But...since I can batch process, it's not that big a deal as I can leave it doing its thing and come back later.”
“PanoVolo does a great job at stitching my panoramas together. There are occasional glitches, but far fewer than all of the free options, and I've tried them. Great job.”
