HDRI Prep for Android

11 things about HDRI Prep

1. It is designed only to fill a hole in the current functionality of the official THETA app (and what 3rd party apps I've played with): to make a library of Bracket settings, a method of organizing them, and a way to call them up and use them quickly on set.

2. HDRI Prep is not intended to be a full featured replacement for other THETA iPhone apps.

3. HDRI Prep is a small utility for use in visual effects for creating HDRI bracketing sets for RICOH THETA 360 cameras, specifically, the V, Z1 and X.

4. The THETA cameras does do multi-image exposure bracketing that you can set with the iPhone THETA app, but modifying them is painfully slow and difficult and you can't save sets and reuse them later.

5. • If you want to see a live count of the images as they are taken you can actually switch to the official THETA app after beginning a capture.

6. You can use the official THETA app or you can manage them on a Mac using Image Capture (you're on your own with Windows).

7. You can see what is on the camera (heads up, it's slow to load) but I am leaving the downloading and deleting of images up to other apps.

8. • Be aware that adjusting the camera shutter sound volume and the sleep delay time writes these changes to the camera, overwriting any previous camera setting.

9. As such you will find it is missing various functions of the official THETA app.

10. I wrote this to fill that need and speed up use of the THETA on set for taking HDRIs.

11. If you change the sleep time to 10 minutes it will stay that way even when HDRI Prep isn't connected or running.