LINUX Pano2VR5 workflow

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We got little time over to play with Pano2VR5 PRO in the holidays
Amazing piece of software indeed it is most appreciated Thank You

Fixing a virtual tour from the neighbor Conference Hotel and Hostels
with images from my Ricoh Theta S
and a 36 0 Video on YouTube

Would like to show my work flow on this TOPIC to see if it is all right

• Loading the images

• Renaming the images

• Patching Equiangular images

• Converting Equiangular images

• Creating a tour with hot spots

• Target Viewing Parameters

• Writing userdata, titels

• Generating output

And so on Editing: this post !

i know Theta S has not the best image quality but forget about that for now
My motive are here after to spread the Ricoh Theta S and the Pano2VR5 PRO News to the Swedish Linux Community and to get it right

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Pano2VR5 for Linux include converting Panorama Video Wizard to 3.2 format
iam running (Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela Cinnamon 64) build on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

here is how to install FFmpeg in 14.04 with the terminal
Press Ctrl+Alt+F to open the terminal copy and paste each line separately hit Enter

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

in the settings, you can browse to the executable location, / usr / bin / ffmpeg



But i do not find the Droplet in save as droplet

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Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon Edition are build on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS



Use Equirectangular images Direckt from a Ricoh THETA S
and Equirectangular images striched with Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher

NOTE!
On Ubuntu later versions you have to run command:

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sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

followed by this command:

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sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new

in the terminal to be able to create a starter in the launcher

NOTE
You need FFmpeg to run the Video Wizard and Animation tool in Pano2VR5

FFmpeg has unfortunately been removed from Ubuntu 14.04 and was replaced by Libav.
This decision has been reversed so that FFmpeg is available now in Ubuntu 15.04 again,
but there is still no official package for 14.04. how to install FFmpeg from mc3man ppa.
Add the mc3man ppa:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

And confirm the following message by pressing [ENTER]

Also note that with apt-get a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is needed for initial setup & with some package upgrades
More info: https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ ... usty-media

Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

Update the package list.

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Now FFmpeg is available to be installed with apt:

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sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

The ffmpeg file Path are /usr/bin/ffmpeg

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Pano2VR suggestion: it would be great if Pano2VR could Extract Patches in the open format .xfe
that GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program have as standard or native fileformat
the free and Open Source Image Editor are actually an excellent replacement to the Expensive Adobe PhotoShop

All right to day You can export and replace in Gimp
but an easy workflow with the open .xfe format
would inspire many new users especially from the Open Source World and Community

A rather big conceptual change is that saving and exporting images now are clearly separated activities. Saving an image can only be done in the XCF format which is GIMP’s native file format, able to save all kinds of information necessary for works in progress.

To export into other formats File->Export… needs to be used. This distinction makes it clearer if all available information is stored in a file, or not. There are some optimizations for alternative workflows such as opening a jpg, polishing it, and quickly exporting back to the original file. This conceptual change has also allowed us to get rid of the annoying dialogs that warned about the flatting of images when saving to non-layered formats.

[thomas]

Pano2VR suggestion: it would be great if Pano2VR could Extract Patches in the open format .xfe

Nice idea, but GIMP doesn't recommends this. From Wikipedia:

The use of XCF as a data interchange format is not recommended by the GIMP developers