Thank you for your detailed answers. However, I am still a bit puzzled as to the difficulty with the AE bracketing problem. You state that "the user sets camera settings in GO, DronePan does
nothing in the way of
controlling or
altering camera settings."
1. I specify in DJI GO that my still captures are to be JPG+DNG, and set the camera to record stills using Auto exposure, instead of manual, and set WB to Auto LOG, and I then press and hold the on-screen shutter release button to bring up the 5 different shutter release modes. Instead of the default Single exposure, I instead select the AE Bracketing mode, and select a 5 shot bracket under the sub menu.
2. I then switch to Dronepan and shoot a panorama.
===>What will happen???
If your first statement is true, a 20 shot sequence of 5 bracketed exposures should occur in both JPG and DNG, producing 200 images, 100 JPG and 100 DNG.
It takes about 30 seconds to complete a 5 shot bracketed JPG+DNG AE exposure. If your camera timer is set to 35 seconds and your yaw command is set to initiate immediately after the timer has completed the shutter release, the yaw command should be completed by the time the 5 shot AE bracket has completed processing because it has 30 seconds to complete the yaw.
What am I missing here, and why won't this method work?
You never did answer my original question about the bottom two shots.
Why does your video state they are shot at 180° from each other, when that is actually the same original photo upside down? Are they actually taken at 90° to each other, which would make far more sense?
If you eliminate the straight down shot, you will lose the best part of the panorama, and introduce distortion into that portion. You will also likely cause some stitching programs to fail, even if others can handle the missing downward shot(s).
Also, if your 15° of overlap at 60° intervals of the 360 (based upon the 90° FOV of the lens) is causing stitching problems, then shoot 8 shots at 45° intervals instead, and have 30° of overlap.
I have been shooting all 8 directions of facing straight down (using 45° rotations to reach the 360° coverage), but I now realize that only 4 are needed, for the same reason your two 180° rotated downfacing images are also the same! My last 4 are just upside down versions of the first 4!
Looking forward to the public release in a week or two.