Bulk replace of pano images

Feature Suggestions
#1

I would appreciate a feature in My iGUIDE to replace all panos instead of only allowing to do that on a one-by-one basis. I would love to be able to:

  1. download a zip
  2. let me edit all photos in Lightroom (all photos can be improved; even if only lighting corrections)
  3. upload the same zip structure
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#2

100%!

The way it currently works is very tedious and inefficient.

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#3

Afterthought: even better if I just only re-upload the images I want to replace, to avoid needless bandwidth and processing.

#4

There are numerous ways that I can think of to improve pano replacements, like just overwriting the existing ones, like you pointed out, by dragging and dropping edited panos or even better and more powerful by using a protocol like FTP that would quickly allow batch replacements.

It also would be nice if the existing blur functionality was turned into a more feature rich pano editor for a quick, basic edits. The open source world is full of functionality like that that I expect would be straightforward to implement.

#5

Sounds even nicer! However, that would be way more work in development and testing time, whilst download/upload zip only requires a minimal user interface and some unzip/move files logic on the server. Seems like something that could quickly become available :wink:

#6

But even that could turn into a support hassle. Inevitably, someone would upload updates to the wrong panos.

#7

Good thinking! They could prefix file names with the project identifier on download to prevent that.

#8

If you’re interested. I have a Windows Powershell script that transfers the original pano files to an “Originals” folder, what the script also does is rename the files to something like…“mainfloor-0001-scan.jpg” so I know where it came from. I edit all of these in Lightroom and then save them to an “Edits” folder and using another powershell script to transfer them all back to their original location and renaming them all back to scan.jpg. Then I upload my stitch data. This may help editing, I know I like my edits better this way.

#9

Thanks, I’m on a Mac but that sounds like a great idea; can you provide me the script for inspiration?

#10

You can just as easily do it on Mac. Send me a DM and I can send you the files

#11

I have a Windows Powershell script that transfers the original pano file

Interesting! I wrote an app with a nice GUI to do just that for the IMS-5 camera but haven’t updated it for the Planix lineup. A script works too.

#12

Interested in that, I do have an IMS-5! All inspiration is welcome, if you don’t mind sharing.

#13

I’ll see about updating it for Planix file structure instead.

#14

I actually ONLY have an IMS-5 :slight_smile:

#15

It comes in especially handy when I edited 600 photos for a 70,000 sqft gym. There was no way I was going to manually rename, edit, export, rename again and put in the original folder. It would have taken weeks to edit everything.

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#16

Oh yeah. For situations like that, whatever you can do to automate the process saves you time, effort, and hair on your head. :grin:

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