How To: Edit and Stitch RAW DNG Images From RICOH THETA Z1 with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC and THETA Stitcher

Is anyone else seeing issues with files that you have renamed before editing in Lightroom not working when exported to the Theta Stitcher app? From what I am seeing, the stitcher will only work with files using the file naming structure the camera uses (e.g. R0010003.DNG).

I shot some images yesterday and renamed the files to something like this: 2019-06-01-Plane-000001.dng. After editing the image in Lightroom and trying to edit it in the Stitcher, I get an error saying that a DNG must be in the same directory. Simply renaming the file to “R0010003.DNG” an exporting it again works fine.

I tried some other file names (e.g. “plane.DNG”), but the ONLY file format that seems to work is a capital R followed by a series of numbers.

Note: I am doing this on a Mac.