MaximusNZ

@John Rostron That’s looking amazing! At first I found it was not quite right, then I realised I need to resize the canvas before applying the macro. Then squeeze it a bit to look nicer. And in the end I’ve ended up with a set of actions to make it look good: Resize Canvas - Centered - Y axis to 6040 px Run “ Expand Top and Bottom” Macro Transform - Y scale 92% Y offset 506 px Transform - Y scale 91% Y offset 45.7 px Crop to look better top and Bottom What I end up with is almost the same. The top and bottom could do with a bit more stretch, but the middle bit the same.... yeah sounds hard. I’ve created side by sides of my final result from the steps above versus the PS workflow. BTW what is the equation you ended up using? Is there a way to use the “a” slider to adjust the outer stretch? And do you have a Patron / way to buy you a coffee? (I live in New Zealand, where are you?)

@John Rostron John I am truely in awe of your math! I have a similar yet inverse problem, I’ve shot 360 photos but want remove the vertical distortion from the equirectangular format. Which looks like an image is rolled over a tube vertically. A friend showed me a photoshop plug in that can do this, and it looks great to make an equirectangular photo look like a panaorama (with top and bottom cut off). But I thought the equation editor in Affinity must be able to do this.... i have tried to reverse your equation.... but I am a math loser😰 Can I beg your help to figure out how to adjust images as I’m suggesting (sorry I’m new to these forums too so not yet too good on how to quote and add images). The Origonal unaltered 360 images are 6080 x 3040.

This is a long shot, but I’ve really no idea where to begin, but it seems do-able? I am looking for an equation that makes equirectangular images look like a panorama. A friend showed me a Photoshop plug in that could transform an equirectangular image to Mercator projection. And if I trim the top and bottom off it’s a great way to create panoramas of people. I’ve added some examples below. First I double the image height, then apply some form of equation, that stretches more as it goes out from the center. Its not a simple doubling of size, it needs to have a slow growth from the middle put to look “normal” again. Sorry to just ask out of the blue, but I’ve had a look at equation examples on these forums, and then googled maths equations and can’t even figure out where to start!

I have 500mb/s Fibre, and no issues playing 4K video on other sites, but seem to get constant freezes and skipping of video on the iPad help site. Some videos just freeze 15 seconds in and never recover. Is there an issue with the video server?