*EDITED* 04/20/2017
Hi all! It took me a while to figure it out, and it's still not gereat, so wanted to pick people's brains on the best way to do this.
I am adding some data/edits here, as I have learned things.

So far I took a panorama using 2.7K video, since taking it with pictures, I sort of ran out of patience...  The process is rougly the same for image panorama.
On video, some stitchers, like Imaga Composide Editor, will extract the photos out of the video on it's own, relatively well.

With the video, I filmed about 7-8 "around vertical axis" turns, starting looking down, then moving the camera up with each revolution. On images I can do about 8-10 images per revolution and I need about 3 or 4 rows plus 3 images straight down. Litchi app does ok with that too, but the process seems a bit faster, or perhpas it's because I am doing it and not just waiting for the app to stop flying my drone....  Either way -
O video the extract seems to bve about 150 stills, on manual photo still it's usually about 40 pics or so.
Then pull them into a stitcher, and stitch into a "spherical" panorama using something liek free Image Composite Editor.

Once that is done, the panorama can be saved, but it HAS to be 2:1 x/y ratio. You can use scaling, but I have found that it's better to go into something like gimp, and actually create an empty canvas with proper ratio of 2:1 based on your X resolution (horizontal), then I simply copy the sky over as an additional stripe above the current image, and this way i can keep the horizon in the middle - which makes it work way better! (I found, that in Gimp u can also "resize canvas" and them move your original image to the bottom or whatever.)

So now you have a spherical panorma, with cloned piece of the sky, and you got your 2:1 resolution rario.  The last piece of the puzzle is telling it that it's a 360 pano. Now I get into exif editor (exifgui works), and edit the ProjectionType tag to "equirectangular" (make sure you press enter after changing the field, then do "save" on the image).
I have found that google maps, and few other apps require another exif tag - UsePanoramaViewer=True

Once this was done I could upload it to facebook, roundm skypixel, and it  is recognized as 360.

Below are 2 360s made out of pictures, once I fix the video based ones a bit better i will add them here too. As you can see they are still not perfect, the stitching has some imperfections, but this is as close as I can get:





Roundme works ok lately: https://www.skypixel.com/user/gr ... d-b0d4-a407e36a599d

(I wish skypixel autoloaded a clickable preview into the forums, but it clearly does not, or I do not know how)

Thx for reading and enjoy your 360!

Litchi for sure, you can set up the number of images and how many rows and columns and degrees of camera movement you want then just hit start and it does the rest.

trance728- Posted at 2016-12-27 12:13
Litchi for sure, you can set up the number of images and how many rows and columns and degrees of camera movement you want then just hit start and it does the rest.

have you ever done this? what settings? I did not try litchi yet.. maybe will try later today.. waiting to see if we get a nice sunset.... is there a default profile for 360,or need I write one? Clearly i have NOT played with litchi yet ;)

Use this guide. http://forum.dji.com/thread-77192-1-1.html
I just did this one.

Well, I expected that i need more than 3 rows, so i was going to try 6.. and i guess the "nadirs" is the one straight down?
I am flying with nvidia shield, hope it will work way with litchi, and no problems with dji go, as long as it's not the default app.
Wish me luck ;)
Ah, the reason i added delay, is because if i take the picture after dusk, i want to make sure there's enough time to take a 1 sec exposure.. unlikely, but possible.

Well, did some testing, and man, litchi is a good app! Pretty amazing! Kudos to the developers, and I did not even scratch the surface! Feels weird seeing the drone "do things".. will see how the panos turned out!

Phantomski Posted at 2016-12-27 20:01
Well, did some testing, and man, litchi is a good app! Pretty amazing! Kudos to the developers, and I did not even scratch the surface! Feels weird seeing the drone "do things".. will see how the panos turned out!

Phantomski:

Thanks for initiating this thread. This is good information for 360s.

Keep Smiling,

Augustus

Well, i have found it still a bit troublesome.. will post what i got tomorrow. I think i may need to check 9 photos per row, and may also play with either HDR or bracketing. Also, spheres at 12megapixels get.. well.. quite large ;)

As i find useful info I might edit the original post...  will see.

It is fun though!

Well, i guess Litchi does not wait for the pic to complete on it's own ;)

Phantomski Posted at 2016-12-30 14:28
Well, i guess Litchi does not wait for the pic to complete on it's own ;)

It's very easy to shoot panoramas manually.
I shoot a lot of panoramas but have never been impressed with the apps for this because they are much slower.

Maybe lowlight isn't the best option for it, I've only done them during the daylight hours.

i've done lowlight, just not panorama.. certainly doable, just need to get the process down.. and u r right, i may havce to fail back to manual...,  i've done manual panoramas, but getting a spherical panorama requires a bit more, and it's nice to have automated...

Phantomski Posted at 2016-12-30 17:29
i've done lowlight, just not panorama.. certainly doable, just need to get the process down.. and u r right, i may havce to fail back to manual...,  i've done manual panoramas, but getting a spherical panorama requires a bit more, and it's nice to have automated...

I just meant lowlight for Litchi and the way it's trying to work the pano. I would play with the settings some more and see if you can find a way to get it to work, the automation is really nice.

Phantomski Posted at 2016-12-30 14:28
Well, i guess Litchi does not wait for the pic to complete on it's own ;)

Phantomski:

There's something beautiful about those blurred shots. Artistic, even.

Keep Smiling,

Augustus

Just edited the original with 2 panoramas I just did in the last 3 days, and I also edited the text. Please let me know if it is clearer or worse after my edits. I know that a "video" is worth a lot, but I find that many people still prefer to read, as do I, hence an attempt at a high level approach in writing ;)

BTW, does anyone knows hot to embed skypixel or facebook, so that actual panorama image loads and it's clickable?

Thx!

Phantomski Posted at 2017-1-7 22:02
Just edited the original with 2 panoramas I just did in the last 3 days, and I also edited the text. Please let me know if it is clearer or worse after my edits. I know that a "video" is worth a lot, but I find that many people still prefer to read, as do I, hence an attempt at a high level approach in writing ;)

BTW, does anyone knows hot to embed skypixel or facebook, so that actual panorama image loads and it's clickable?

You can just load to Facebook and you will see your full pano, another good free app for taking panos is dronepan they also have a Facebook forum , they are two great guys who are very progressive and very helpful.
Good luck..

Thx. Unfortunately facebook does some crappy post processing on images anymore, and realy pixelates ceertain shades.. quite annoying on any evening shots....  panorama or not....

Is this in Utah?

Colorado. Why did u think Utah?

I saw that some people post partial panoramas on facebook, so facebook knows it's not a 360, but still makes it an interactive panorama.. does anyone here know what's the trick with that?  On a 360 a 2:1 resolution ratio is one of the keys.. not sure what it is on a non 360 interactive panorama..