Good morning!

I'm a bit curious about what software you are all using/recommending for creating 360 spheres taken with the Mini 3 Pro?
(I'm aware of PTGui and PanoramaStudio 3 Pro, but haven't tried either of them myself)

Also, how do you catch the photos required?
(In the past I've used the automatic sphere shooting, which obviously doesnt catch the overhead photos needed. Would you use that and combine with manual overhead shots or do you do full manual photos, if so, at which angles, number of shots per row, number of rows etc do you do for best result?)

Many thanks in advance

Hello there UKSwede. Good day and thank you for reaching out. I hope that our fellow DJI co pilots can give out what edition software they are using to stitch and to create  360 spheres. Thank you and have a nice day.

at the moment the only option is panoramastudio, as it allows to stitch portrait and landscape shots. the only way to capture it definitely is the auto 360 pano mode, no point in doing it manually. Only for the sky there is no other options but going for manual vertical shots, what i do usually are two rows of several photos, usually depends on the control points - try to make sure there will be enough for a good stitch. try to start the first row catching a little bit of the landscape, the upper part. then the second row is pretty much guesswork if there are no clouds....

sbonev Posted at 6-8 00:23
at the moment the only option is panoramastudio, as it allows to stitch portrait and landscape shots. the only way to capture it definitely is the auto 360 pano mode, no point in doing it manually. Only for the sky there is no other options but going for manual vertical shots, what i do usually are two rows of several photos, usually depends on the control points - try to make sure there will be enough for a good stitch. try to start the first row catching a little bit of the landscape, the upper part. then the second row is pretty much guesswork if there are no clouds....

So you can use a mixture of panorama/portrait format photos with panoramastudio. That sounds like a good option in that case.
I tried one last night, but only did a couple of rows manually overhead in panorama format so missed out the top bit straight overhead, processed it with the trial version of panorama studio a while ago, and the stitching seemed really good (albeit obviously missing the uppermost part).
How would you normally save/export the file from that software to end up with an interactive 3d sphere panorama?

UKSwede Posted at 6-8 00:31
So you can use a mixture of panorama/portrait format photos with panoramastudio. That sounds like a good option in that case.
I tried one last night, but only did a couple of rows manually overhead in panorama format so missed out the top bit straight overhead, processed it with the trial version of panorama studio a while ago, and the stitching seemed really good (albeit obviously missing the uppermost part).
How would you normally save/export the file from that software to end up with an interactive 3d sphere panorama?

i only export as jpg, not sure what the other 2 options are useful for, haven't tried them yet.

In my experience of using the Automatic "Sphere" mode the Mini-3 does not record the individual images to the SD Card, only the stiched panorama. I would be interested to know if its possible to access the individual images, particularly the DNG files..

allanart Posted at 6-8 03:10
In my experience of using the Automatic "Sphere" mode the Mini-3 does not record the individual images to the SD Card, only the stiched panorama. I would be interested to know if its possible to access the individual images, particularly the DNG files..

You can save either just the stitched panorama, all the individual jpegs or all the individual dngs. You just have to change the settings for it. Can only change settings for panoramas and mastershots, while in flight though. That is akso the way you change quickshots and mastershots to 4k output

You can try Hugin, it's a Free Open Source version of PTGui, or vice versa. It works very well

I am very happy with the Auto method that is inbuilt into the DJI Fly App