Re: recording QTVR to DVD

I don't think you should have to "convert my equirectangular image to a mirror ball." I don't know much about 3D apps, but it seems you should be able to apply an equirectangular images directly to a "sphere" as an environment map. For that matter, you should be able to apply six cube face files as environment maps to the six faces of a "cube" object.

Regarding the program Cheetah (Mac only): it does not offer motion blur. Nor, does it seem, that it offers field rendering of video. Without these two, any animation you create will probably look choppy at other than very very slow panning or zooming speeds.

On Oct 12, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Chris Erskine wrote:

Panotools should be able to do that. I don't have link on me but just do a search on it

On 10/13/06, Peter Gotlib < email@hidden> wrote:

should look into something like blender. I haven't used it
but its an open source 3d package so it won't cost you anything
to test it out.

http://www.blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html

I was experimenting with Blender - looks like a great app, but too high a learning curve for what I want to do on a more immediate basis.

I even found a great tutorial for creating a skybox:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Build_a_skybox

But again, a bit too advanced for me at the moment.

I'm playing with the trial version of Cheetah now. A simpler app with a much easier interface.

as far as workflow i'd create a sphere and then flip the faces inside.
apply and sphereical photo to it and stick and camera in the middle.

How do I convert my equirectangular image to a mirror ball ? Can PTgui do this?

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