I utlize Phantom 4 Pro Plus drones in my business. I also utilize Mavic AIr drones as backups for travel. The Mavic Air will build a 360 Sphere pano image that I can then take an either upload to Skypixel or edit the elongated pano in Photoshop and export.

However, with the Phantom 4 Pro Plus I took some Sphere panoramas, but I am having the most difficult time pulling those from my Plus controller or SD card. The SD card shows the individual photos and a very small jpg photo of the full sphere pano. I'm also having difficulty finding step by step instructions on how to make a tiny planet pano from my 4 pro plus. Again, this is not the 4 pro controller, but the 4 pro plus.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

To have the + stitch the pano you would have to first tap the "play triangle" in the lower right corner, this can be done when you're back home from shooting.
Take a look on this post to see where you'll find the pictures and be aware that they a very lowres and often have stitching errors.
My recommendation would be using external software for stitching the pano's and for best results shoot them manually as i find that the exposure is hard/impossible to control using the automatic pano mode, hopefully it get improved in the future.

I can find the individual images that make up the sphere panos, but need some guidance on converting those into a stretched pano like what the mavic does for the tiny planet shots that can go to sky pixel.
If you shoot in manual the exposure stays consistent so no worries there. I don't mind doing the conversion myself, I'm just not seeing where/how to do it in Photoshop, MS ICE, etc.

There are several tutorials on youtube, one for photoshop is at

I appreciate the response, but what I was looking for is specific to the Phantom 4 pro PLUS drone (or crystal sky). For any others who might be looking for what I was, I figured out how to do it. I'll include the steps below:

Have your Phantom 4 Pro Plus do a Sphere panorama from the photo camera option (where you select single photo, pano, etc.).
Download Microsoft ICE (free): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ ... e-composite-editor/
Download the images from your SD card from the drone (not the controller). They should be here: [drive letter]:\DCIM\PANORAMA\[folder name such as 100_0006]
Inside you should find both dng files as well as jpg. Filter by *.dng
Select all the dng files and drag them into Microsoft ICE on tab 1 labeled IMPORT
Once they are there, click the 2 tab labeled STITCH (no need to change any settings)
Once they finish stitching and compositing choose Stereographic on the right hand side.
Within the grid pattern, click and hold on the Y axis and drag up or down depending on the effect you are going for (either  the ground being the world, or the world having a "sky hole" in it.
You can also rotate the image by clicking and holding near the outside corner of the grid and dragging the image to keep the focus area where you want it.
Click the 3 tab CROP and crop it how you want it.
Click the 4 tab and EXPORT it. I'd export to tiff so you don't lose quality bringing it back into lightroom or photoshop so you can adjust lighting/color, etc. I'd make the scale like 97 percent or so to keep it a large file. If you are just posting to social media, you can make this much smaller.

Where I was getting confused was I didn't realize you actually had to click and drag the image up or down to get the effect. I thought it would just "make" a tiny planet when selecting stereographic. Now that I know, it's easy- I just didn't know. I hope that others find this helpful.

fans1f5cb8d1 Posted at 2018-5-20 13:34
I appreciate the response, but what I was looking for is specific to the Phantom 4 pro PLUS drone (or crystal sky). For any others who might be looking for what I was, I figured out how to do it. I'll include the steps below:

Have your Phantom 4 Pro Plus do a Sphere panorama from the photo camera option (where you select single photo, pano, etc.).

Good to see that you found your way.
One thing you should be aware of, unless you have installed some miracle software windows/MS ICE would be using the preview .jpg embedded into the .dng files and thereby stitch your pano using 960x640 resolution images. you would get better result/resolution using the hires .jpg and not the .dng pictures.
For the very best result you would be using a raw editor for your .dng pictures and from that export the pictures in tiff format to import in the pano stitch software.