Watch this video. I shot this Sunday night with my phone, a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S10 I picked up 2 years ago from the fine folks at Back Market. Check 'em out if you hate new phone prices as much as I do.
Anyway, the sunset was looking pretty colorful, and I needed a video so that I could demo one of the cool video tools available in the upcoming Panorama Stitch extension for Luminar Neo. I did about a 13 second left to right sweeping pan of the western horizon, beginning at Dragon Ridge and finishing at the big mesquite tree in my yard, around a 90° angle of view. It looks ok by itself, but what if I wanted to make a still panorama image. Well, of course I wanted that, why else would I be sitting here typing this?
I'm not going to go over the convoluted, circuitous procedure I went through to get this clip from the phone to my video folder on the desktop (it was too big to email to myself). I'll just say there were moments I wanted to punch a hole in the monitor, and leave it at that.
Once I had the video clip in the same account as the beta2 Panorama Stitch extension, it was simply a matter of dragging the whole clip to the Pano stitch window, and go through the same steps as if you were stitching several still images, except in this case, the program is looking at hundreds of frames. Once it's processed and cropped and saved, (and edited, of course), you get this:
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| Sunset, July 17, 2023 ©Daniel Gauss/Shot On Site |
Is that not sick?? That blew my mind. To think that I can take a video clip of just about any length, and turn it into a basically flawless panorama still image. This is next level stuff, folks. And that's not the best part.
Is this the really cool video function I promised in the previous blog post? No, it is not. As cool as this is, it's not nearly as cool as what I'll be able to show you once the official production version of the Panorama Stitch extension is released, (and don't forget, you can save $10 if you order before Thursday, July 20).
Can you guess what the next feature is?
Anyway, here are your purchase links again:
If you want to get your very own copy of Luminar Neo with all the great extensions, click HERE.
If you already own Luminar Neo, and want to pre-order the Panorama Stitch extension for $39 (It will be $49 on July 20), click HERE.
Current subscribers will get the extension as part of their regular subscription price.
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