Stitching Spherical HDR Panoramas in NukeX with CaraVR

In this video we take an in-depth look at using the CaraVR toolset in NukeX 12.0+ for stitching spherical HDR panoramas. We talk about - Advantages of stitching in Nuke vs alternatives like PTGui and AutoPanoGiga - Blending multiple bracketed exposures into a single hdr image - Calibrating color and exposure - Using the C_CameraSolver node to solve our camera rig, including an in-depth rundown on creating manual feature matches, and a manual approach for getting a solve - Fixing alignment, ghosting and blending artifacts - Using C_SphericalTransform to paint out unwanted objects in frame - Using Blender, we'll test out our final HDR to see how it works! Links Debayer tool: https://github.com/jedypod/debayer RawTherapee: https://rawtherapee.com Nuke-Config: https://github.com/jedypod/nuke-config ExposureBlend tool: https://gist.github.com/jedypod/7a4f878040747251c6833d26f85cac8a Junk Shop Blender Scene: https://cloud.blender.org/p/gallery/5dd6d7044441651fa3decb56 Image Set: If you want to follow along, here are the ACES 2065-1 exr images used in the video: https://mega.nz/folder/hBJUFLib#h4v4LjdSYXjZqPjVlomWKg Chapters 00:00 - Bad joke 00:32 - Summary of events 01:28 - What is an HDR? 03:06 - Brief tangent into raw image debayer with RawTherapee 05:06 - Why use Nuke for HDR Stitching? 07:55 - Apocalypse from the West 08:38 - Combining bracketed exposures into an HDR image 17:39 - ExposureBlend tool 19:48 - Calibrating exposure 22:56 - Fix alignement issue 25:53 - Intro to CaraVR toolset 26:38 - Solving our rig with C_CameraSolver 33:16 - Straighten horizon 34:05 - Creating manual feature matches 38:28 - Set mask shape 40:02 - C_Stitcher to warp and blend panorama 41:00 - Fix stitching artifacts by tweaking masking 41:56 - Fix ghosting artifacts by removing areas of each view 45:00 - Remove areas from HDR blend to reduce motionblur artifacts 50:36 - Write out a cache of the stitch before paint 52:31 - Paint out camera shadow 59:18 - Color calibration with a Macbeth Colorchecker 01:02:40 - Lighting a scene in Blender 01:06:12 - Thanks and The End 01:06:48 - Bonus Round! Manual alignment if nothing else works