New features of Panotour Pro 2.0

Quality

Panotour Pro is based on the latest technologies to offer top quality. Appart from the Flash and HTML5 generation, Panotour Pro 2.0 will offer powerful widgets to let you integrate a variety of features and custom objects into your virtual tours.

Easy

Not only visually appealing, Panotour Pro 2.0 has been designed following the users’ requests to offer a nice interface. You can now create incredible virtual tours that include advanced features, with no need of programming skills.

Everywhere

Everybody wants virtual tours to run well on any device. Panotour Pro 2.0 offers the ability to display your tours everywhere thanks to the HTML5 format: computers, tablets, smartphones.

More details on the features: have a look at the slides of Alexandre Jenny’s conference detailing Panotour Pro 2.0:

Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 pricing

The new version is a huge step forward in the field of virtual tour creation. The price of the Pro version will slightly increase, whereas the price of the standard version will remain stable.

• Panotour 2.0: €99
• Panotour Pro 2.0: €399

Kolor also presented Livepano, which will enable to embed video frames on the place of a photo in the virtual tour. This option will be sold €199.

Upgrade policy

Kolor is used to offer the next version from the time a first beta of the application is released. The first beta of Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 is expected for August, however we decided to offer the new version on all purchases made from July 1, 2013.

Therefore, Panotour Pro price will be €399 from July 1 and it will include Panotour Pro 2.0.

All clients that made a purchase earlier than July 1 will be offered a special upgrade price as follows:

• From Panotour 1.x to Panotour 2.0: €39
• From Panotour Pro 1.x to Panotour Pro 2.0: €199, which is a third of the old price (our standard upgrade price) + the price difference between version 1 and version 2.

When will Panotour / Panotour Pro 2.0 be released?

We cannot give a date for the final release yet. The first public beta should be available in August.

I heard there was a private beta program. How to become a private beta tester?

Please be aware that the application is still under development. It is buggy and not stable. However, if you would like to test it at your own risk, please apply to become a private beta tester by contacting us. Note that as we’re now focusing on the correction of bugs to release the final version rapidly, no technical support will be offered on this private beta. A delay of several days can occur to process your application. Thank you for your understanding, and see you soon for the final release!

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Autopano Video Pro lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

What is the difference between Autopano Video and Autopano Video Pro?

Autopano Video Pro uses GPU processing for faster rendering times. If you have time constraint you can use GPU rendering which is on average 10x faster than CPU rendering, depending on your configuration. Compatible with all graphics cards.

How fast is Autopano Video Pro GPU rendering?

Watch the video: My first 360° video with Autopano Video

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Autopano Video, the change log compared to beta 2

Main changes

This is the third beta version of Autopano Video, a generic video stitcher.

Autopano Video / Autopano Video Pro is the easiest way to stitch and create 360-degree immersive videos

Offer an incredible new experience to your clients or friends. Autopano Video is the new video-stitching software application developed by Kolor. It lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

We had 3 main goals when making these products

Quality first : The world’s best image-stitching technology is behind Autopano Video. Quality workflow, quality results. No limitation : We were always determined to bring you cross-platform support as well as cross-hardware support. And that, without any limit in the number of video stream sources nor in the output size. Affordable, accessible : Both in terms of usage and price, Autopano Video gives nearly everyone the chance to create amazing 360° videos.

Using Autopano Video during the beta stage

We want you to test it, fully, without any limit, even without watermark, for free. So we decided to let you use the full software for free until the end of June 2013 (with standard version only). Get a temporary license for free and remove to remove the watermark: http://www.kolor.com/360-video/autopano-video-360-video-stitcher.html.

We believe in our community and in our customers that have been supporting us since a long time now. The quality of a software application doesn’t only come from the quality of the developer ( come on, still a bit ), but from the quality of the communication between you and us.

For this piece of software too, we’ve opened a dedicated forum to let you discuss with us about the product. It is always at the same location: http://www.kolor.com/forum/. Go there to find support, report bugs, post results, etc.

Roadmap to the release

We expect that you’ll find bugs, for sure. And we already have some bugs opened in our database. Here’s a short list of what is still under work here.

• QuickTime codec support with Mac version in 64bits. We support QuickTime Codec in 32bits but not yet in 64bits.
• Mac version can be really slow when having source viewers activated. We advise you to enable them only if needed (untick the boxes “Seek on timeline update”).
• Render dialog box UI. We are not totally satisfied with the current layout. If you don’t understand how to use it, we’ll make some changes there.
• Autopano Video Pro only: GPU rendering is working great and super fast on Windows but not on Mac where graphics drivers are complicated to handle well.

Changelog compared to beta 2:

- 0002079: [UI] Error message when using nadir patching method
- 0002071: [I/O] Little planet aspect ratio lost
- 0002060: [Algorithms] GPU rendering, a green first frame can happen
- 0002065: [UI] Reference pano thumbnails
- 0002077: [Algorithms] Nadir patching in Gpu mode
- 0002058: [UI] Syncro crash when no audio track in the videos
- 0002061: [UI] Empty error dialogbox pops up at the end of a render

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> Download Autopano Video 1.0 beta 2.
> Request a free registration key to use the beta.

The change log compared to beta 1

Main changes

This is the second beta version of Autopano Video, a generic video stitcher.

Autopano Video / Autopano Video Pro is the easiest way to stitch and create 360-degree immersive videos

Offer an incredible new experience to your clients or friends. Autopano Video is the new video-stitching software application developed by Kolor. It lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

We had 3 main goals when making these products

Quality first : The world’s best image-stitching technology is behind Autopano Video. Quality workflow, quality results.

No limitation : We were always determined to bring you cross-platform support as well as cross-hardware support. And that, without any limit in the number of video stream sources nor in the output size.

Affordable, accessible : Both in terms of usage and price, Autopano Video gives nearly everyone the chance to create amazing 360° videos.

Using Autopano Video during the beta stage

We want you to test it, fully, without any limit, even without watermark, for free. So we decided to let you use the full software for free until the end of June 2013. Get a temporary license for free and remove to remove the watermark: http://www.kolor.com/360-video/autopano-video-360-video-stitcher.html.

We believe in our community and in our customers that have been supporting us since a long time now. The quality of a software application doesn’t only come from the quality of the developer ( come on, still a bit ), but from the quality of the communication between you and us.

For this piece of software too, we’ve opened a dedicated forum to let you discuss with us about the product. It is always at the same location: http://www.kolor.com/forum/. Go there to find support, report bugs, post results, etc.

Roadmap to the release

We expect that you’ll find bugs, for sure. And we already have some bugs opened in our database. Here’s a short list of what is still under work here.

• QuickTime codec support with Mac version in 64bits. We support QuickTime Codec in 32bits but not yet in 64bits.
• Mac version can be really slow when having source viewers activated. We advise you to enable them only if needed (untick the boxes "Seek on timeline update").
• Render dialog box UI. We are not totally satisfied with the current layout. If you don’t understand how to use it, we’ll make some changes there.
• Autopano Video Pro only: GPU rendering is working great and super fast on Windows but not on Mac where graphics drivers are complicated to handle well.

Main changes

There has been a lot of work on different part of the softwares:

• Autopano Video Pro: GPU Rendering. It works, it is amazingly fast (up to 15x faster than CPU mode). Private beta is starting right now for selected user. We’ll go public after IVRPA presentation about 360° video solutions. It works on any hardware even on small Mac where you only have 512MB of GPU Ram.
• Upon user request, we added the "save as" project to the file menu.
• If you need support for ProRez, you can already use that format in input sources, not yet in output.
• The latest version of MainConcept MP4 encoder has been integrated with all OS supports ( Windows, Mac and Linux ). Linux version of AVS / AVP is not yet done, but all needed component are now available.
• Mac version has been accelerated as there were issues with UI updates on this platform.

Changelog compared to beta 1:

- 0002011: [Algorithms] GPU Rendering, 2 pass rendering

- 0001927: [I/O] Input format, ProRez422

- 0002037: [Crash Dump] Render batch crashes (2 jobs)

- 0002016: [Algorithms] color issue on GPU rendering

- 0002027: [Algorithms] exported frame numbering

- 0002009: [UI] Default folder for autopano video project should be the video folder

- 0002028: [UI] add Save as

- 0002020: [Crash Dump] add symbols for KVideo

- 0002001: [Benchmark] integrate MainConcept v3.2 release

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Do you already know the Kolor Eyes free 360 viewer for iPad?

Discover its Software Development Kit and create your own apps featuring your 360-degree videos. Design your apps to your liking with Apple Xcode and use the Kolor Eyes iOS SDK to embed our powerful 360-degree video player. Take advantage of all the included features: 4 projections, touch or gyroscope control and real-time image effects.

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Kolor Eyes SDK for iOS will offer you great business opportunities. Request a quote to quickly begin developing apps that integrate this amazing 360° video player and start to earn money.

Learn more about Kolor Eyes SDK

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The team of Kolor is proud to release today a first beta version of Autopano Video, the new 360° video stitching software!

Autopano Video lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

Autopano Pro or Autopano Giga are required to use Autopano Video properly.

Watch the video: My first 360° video with Autopano Video

The change log

Main changes

This changelog is the first introduction of Autopano Video, a video stitcher that helps you create amazing 360° videos ( or partial ).

Autopano Video / Autopano Video Pro is the easiest way to stitch and create 360-degree immersive videos

Offer an incredible new experience to your clients or friends. Autopano Video is the new video-stitching software application developed by Kolor. It lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

We had 3 main goals when making these products

Quality first : The world’s best image-stitching technology is behind Autopano Video. Quality workflow, quality results.

No limitation : We were always determined to bring you cross-platform support as well as cross-hardware support. And that, without any limit in the number of video stream sources nor in the output size.

Affordable, accessible : Both in terms of usage and price, Autopano Video gives nearly everyone the chance to create amazing 360° videos.

Using Autopano Video during the beta stage

We want you to test it, fully, without any limit, even without watermark, for free. So we decided to let you use the full software for free until the end of June 2013. Get a temporary license for free and remove to remove the watermark: http://www.kolor.com/360-video/autopano-video-360-video-stitcher.html.

We believe in our community and in our customers that have been supporting us since a long time now. The quality of a software application doesn’t only come from the quality of the developer ( come on, still a bit ), but from the quality of the communication between you and us.

For this piece of software too, we’ve opened a dedicated forum to let you discuss with us about the product. It is always at the same location: http://www.kolor.com/forum/. Go there to find support, report bugs, post results, etc.

Roadmap to the release

We expect that you’ll find bugs, for sure. And we already have some bugs opened in our database. Here’s a short list of what is still under work here.

• QuickTime codec support with Mac version in 64bits. We support QuickTime Codec in 32bits but not yet in 64bits.
• Mac version can be really slow when having source viewers activated. We advise you to enable them only if needed (untick the boxes "Seek on timeline update").
• Render dialog box UI. We are not totally satisfied with the current layout. If you don’t understand how to use it, we’ll make some changes there.
• Autopano Video Pro only: GPU rendering is working great and super fast on Windows but not on Mac where graphics drivers are complicated to handle well.

Changelog since the latest private beta :

- 0001815: [UI] KAVA icons – resolved

- 0001948: [UI] Main slider drag – resolved

- 0001821: [I/O] 48 fps support – resolved

- 0001906: [UI] add quick pano edition – resolved

- 0001929: [UI] Resizable zone in the UI – resolved

- 0001894: [Benchmark] kic allocation too small for big frame – resolved

- 0001944: [I/O] H264 4k support – resolved

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How to make an HDR panorama?

Read Autopano Giga 3 user manual

Read PhotoEngine user manual

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Kolor has just released version 1.1 of Kolor Eyes, the free 360° video player for iPad. It allows you to play and interact with your 360° videos directly on your iPad. Turn at 360 degrees, zoom in and out, look at what is taking place all around you, use the gyroscope to navigate within the video. Play the embedded demo videos or download your own 360° videos. All for free.

Kolor Eyes is part of the Kolor 360° Video Solutions. Stay tunned! Something huge is coming next week!

Discover and download Kolor Eyes

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Get ready!

Kolor is developing the next major version of Panotour Pro. While the development is underway, subscribe to receive the latest updates about this new version.

Subscribe to get the latest news about Panotour Pro 2.0

The first public presentation of Kolor Panotour Pro 2.0 will occur on June 13, during the Iceland 2013 IVRPA Conference.

> Join the Kolor team at the IVRPA annual conference
> Discover the current version: Panotour Pro 1.8

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Download Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 3.0.5

OR — Discover Autopano 3.0

Discover just below the changelog of this version.

The change log

Main changes

Update of some languages

German, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Italian.

Fixes in 3.0 stable channel

Version 3.0.4 had an issue with computing the needed size for rendering layers. So rendering layers was often not allowed.

We quickly addressed this issue and are releasing the fix today.

Fixes since 3.0.4:

- 0001825: [Editor] Pano disk space estimation is wrong when rendering layers.

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Jump to 64 bits

Today’s cameras generate images that become bigger and bigger and require more power to process them, as well as a better memory management. Autopano is available in 32 bits or 64 bits to be compatible with all computer types, but you should definitely favor the 64-bit version if your operating system can handle it. This will increase the memory usage capability of Autopano and therefore get round the memory leak issue.

What is the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems?

On 64-bit operating systems you have access to essentially unlimited RAM, because these systems offer a wider address system and data path. On 32-bit systems, each application is limited to 4GB of RAM (in practice this number is actually smaller). More RAM means applications can manipulate larger pieces of data, cache more information and handle a wide range of tasks more efficiently. Autopano Pro is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit systems, but we highly recommend you to use a 64-bit system if you are planning to create big image stitchings.

What do I need to do to upgrade to a 64-bit operating system?

• On Windows :
If your computer has a 64-bit processor, then you can upgrade to a 64-bit version of Windows. If your computer does not have a 64-bit processor, you may upgrade to a new computer. Refer to your computer dealer for more information.
• On Mac :
Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion are already 64-bit capable, which enables leveraging of more than 4GB of RAM. If you intend to create huge image stitchings, you can just add some RAM and you will start seeing the benefits of the 64-bits support in Autopano Pro.

Modify the use of the graphics card if you notice a performance decrease

The GPU (= graphics card) mode uses the resources of the graphics card of your computer while Autopano processes something, instead of the processor’s resources. This mode is activated by default since Autopano version 2.6 and enables a better user experience in the panorama editor. It may happen that your graphics card is not powerful enough to perform the tasks asked by Autopano (this is particularly the case for graphics cards integrated on the motherboard). If you are not satisfied with the performance of Autopano, please perform the following 3 solutions:
• Install the latest version of your graphics card driver
• Try the compatibility mode for the old graphics cards
• If the above solutions don’t better the performance, deactivate totally the use of the GPU. You will then work only with the power of the processor, not the graphics card. This will facilitate the operations in the panorama editor and slightly increase the rendering speed, but you won’t be able to use some tools anymore, like the panorama move.

Modify the file browser

If Autopano crashes when you open a file browser (for instance when you click on the “Analyze a folder” icon or when you save a project), this is due to a conflict between Autopano and another application. To solve this problem, deactivate the use of the system file browser in the Preferences window, General tab. In this way you get round the conflict causing the crash and activate the use of a specific file browser proper to Autopano. This file browser is similar to the system one, but with some limitations: no contextual menu (right-click), no display settings for the files and folders, no thumbnails and network browsing.

To go further

A special page lists the troubleshooting solutions answering most of the issues you may experience in the use of Autopano:

Discover Autopano’s troubleshooting solutions

The forums help you share your experience, ask questions and get answers to your specific cases:

Forum: using Autopano Forum: Autopano bugs

You can also get technical support by contacting the team of Kolor.

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