Anyone who has tips for making a tripod cap look good please post.  

Your wish is my command. What do you want? A tutorial for 2 shot images (DS version) or multishot?
 
Andy B

Actually Andy, I could usea tip or two.  I shoot multi-rows.
 
Joseph

I'm looking for what file formats work best for smooth gradation of tripod cap... and generally I’m having trouble getting a tripod cap that looks good.
 
And yes the DS tutorial would be the one i need for aligning stitches.
 
Thanks

Not quite what you were after, but here's a quick tutorial on how to add a tripod cap into a REALVIZ Stitcher project:
 
http://www.screencast.com/t/FNt_cpud

Here's another tutorial on how to add a tripod cap in REALVIZ Stitcher Unlimited DS:
 
http://www.screencast.com/t/zCASBzTF7fu
 
This is for when you have stitched 2 fisheye images.