how to create 360 degree Panaroma photos

[Workaholic]

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I couldn't find where else to post. Here's the story:
I have created many panaroma pictures from joining up photos (from 2 to 10 different ones) taken from a digital camera. The latest one, I want to be a moveable 360 degree view. I know that you can create a quicktime movie of this, but from when I last looked, the software to do so was expensive.......

Any ideas.

P.S. I will post the photos when I find them.

[Workaholic]

Here's the link for the photo that I have simply photomerged, not edited brightness or edges yet.

http://www2.cs.man.ac.uk/~leew3/Rand...Photomerge.jpg

Original photos can be seen here:
http://www2.cs.man.ac.uk/~leew3/Rand...%20Phrase%202/

EDIT: should have edited the previous post. By the way, how to delete posts?
EDIT: photomerged file is saved as 70% of original to reduce filesize....

[autopilot]

The Panorama Factory is BY FAR the best package and probably worth the money.

Here is one i did (thanks to mat for hosting it) - http://www.matt-dickins.co.uk/ullswater.mov

[shiato storm]

i use photostitch for mine...

[Workaholic]

I can download a free (30 day) trial copy of Panorama Factory but Photostitch is only available through purchase of one of Canon's hardware i.e. a camera.

Therefore I will download Panorama Factory and try that...

[autopilot]

It's much better anyway

[Workaholic]

By the way, how much RAM memory will it use?
Last time I edited / scanned in a picture it used quite a bit (something like 300-400MB of RAM according to windows task manager.)

[autopilot]

I run it on a gig with now problems. More would speed it up a little, but its not a problem. The initial stitch takes a couple of minutes

[Alex]

Autostitch is great for free - just creates good panoramic prints automatically from photos...

[Funkstar]

Another vote for panorama Factory. Just been trying out the latest version, very cool.

Stitched 18x 8mp photos of Edinburgh on my laptop. Took a while and at one point i had 11MB or resources left according to task manager (1gig installed and a 2gig page file).

[Workaholic]

Another vote for panaroma factory, quite a few popups of hints and tips for every step but overall final image was perfect. 360degree of where I work....

Now to remember to take 10-20 photos of ervywhere I go on holiday....