Autopano Pro 1.9.5 Beta for OSX now available

[BernardLanguillier]

http://www.autopano.net/wiki/Lastest_Beta

Much improved multi-CPU usage (except for Smarblend at this point of time).

Cheers,
Bernard

[Ray]

http://www.autopano.net/wiki/Lastest_Beta

Much improved multi-CPU usage (except for Smarblend at this point of time).

Cheers,
Bernard

Thanks for mentioning that, Bernard. I'm glad this program is being continually improved. It's the 'auto' features I particularly like. I notice that this latest Beta version includes a new file format, ".kro" or Kolor Raw Format that can accommodate an image 300,000 pixels wide. That's 1,000 inches at 300 ppi, or 83ft or 25 metres. That should be long enough for most applications   .

[BernardLanguillier]

Thanks for mentioning that, Bernard. I'm glad this program is being continually improved. It's the 'auto' features I particularly like. I notice that this latest Beta version includes a new file format, ".kro" or Kolor Raw Format that can accommodate an image 300,000 pixels wide. That's 1,000 inches at 300 ppi, or 83ft or 25 metres. That should be long enough for most applications   .

Yes, that should be enough for a year or two... the current limitation though is the lenght of the ink jet paper rolls... I hate that stupid 12 meters constraint. The physical world keeps disapointing.

When you think about it though, P65+ images are about 6500 pixels wide, with a 30% overlap, it takes about 85 images to reach 300.000 pixels, which is basically what you will get if you shoot a 360 degrees with a 500mm on a medium format body. Michael could have run into trouble...

Cheers,
Bernard

[Jack Flesher]

Thanks Bernard for this link!  I just loaded Giga and ran one of my panos with it -- Wow, can you say speed improvement?  It's like 10x faster!

[BernardLanguillier]

Thanks Bernard for this link!  I just loaded Giga and ran one of my panos with it -- Wow, can you say speed improvement?  It's like 10x faster!

Yep... good stuff!

Cheers,
Bernard

[roskav]

Just a quick question ... I need to upgrade my stitching software today and notice that autopano pro is a bit cheaper than the €200 for Realviz now Autodesk programme... Does anyone have experience of both programmes?  .... My halfpenny's worth of experience with realviz was that it needed a lot of fine tuning to work properly and there was always little bits of odd things in places once the panos were stitched.. it also tended to crash if you asked it to do some specific things.. On the pro side it exported nicely to a six sided cube where you could work on the images in PS and then re-assemble as a qtvr... which is what I would be doing with this mainly.  ... hope you can help ... thanks!

Ros

[BernardLanguillier]

Just a quick question ... I need to upgrade my stitching software today and notice that autopano pro is a bit cheaper than the €200 for Realviz now Autodesk programme... Does anyone have experience of both programmes?  ....

I have not used the latest versions of Realviz Stitcher, but for high quality photographic stitching, the latest Aupopano Pro was an order of magnitude better last time I compared. Think of the gap between a P65+ and a D60.

Cheers,
Bernard

[roskav]

Thanks Bernard I'll give AutoPano Pro a try ...  I really think that Autodesk really do charge a premium for their software... any Architect I know who uses AutoCad has to pay through the nose for a license .. then updates and fixes are also charged as far as I know.

Ros

[lightstand]

How did you get a registration code to work with this new beta version? The only info I can find is towards using it as a trial version? thanks jeff

[Jack Flesher]

How did you get a registration code to work with this new beta version? The only info I can find is towards using it as a trial version? thanks jeff

You have to send them an email and then they send you a 2 month key for the new beta

[BernardLanguillier]

Autopano Pro/Giga 1.9.6 RC1 was released a few days ago. I am starting to test.

[BernardLanguillier]

Autopano Pro/Giga 1.9.6 RC1 was released a few days ago. I am starting to test.

Seems less stable than 1.9.5 on OSX.

Cheers,
Bernard

[lightstand]

Seems less stable than 1.9.5 on OSX.

I just started using 1.9.6 and it has crashed on me for the last three tries, rendering a small 7 image stitch. I am trying to have it save the file as a layered 16bit psd. Any ideas the control points read "quite good"? thanks jeff

[Sigi]

Seems less stable than 1.9.5 on OSX.

Cheers,
Bernard

I ran 3 panoramas on the pro and then 3 on giga (both on an imac). Each pano had about 20 shots. No issues, no crashes.

Sigi

[lightstand]

I ran 3 panoramas on the pro and then 3 on giga (both on an imac). Each pano had about 20 shots. No issues, no crashes.

Sigi

I have been able to get it to work, but not if I add control points. To answer my own question according to APP's forum it looks like there will be an upgrade on the 17th that address's the crashes people are experiencing during the rendering.

[Jeremy Roussak]

I just started using 1.9.6 and it has crashed on me for the last three tries, rendering a small 7 image stitch. I am trying to have it save the file as a layered 16bit psd. Any ideas the control points read "quite good"? thanks jeff

It repeatedly crashed for me as well, on a simple three-frame pano, output as a simple TIFF. I went back to .5.

The other problem I'm having is that it's adding a rather unpleasant purple colour cast to the panorama. I can't quite work out what's going on. The images look fine in LR, and the exported TIFFs look fine in PS. When I import them into APP, the thumbnails and the stitched panorama have the colour cast, but double-clicking a thumbnail to open the image at full size in APP shows correct colours.

I've looked around for colour options, but haven't found any. Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there anything I can do about it? I'm using a Mac Pro, OS 10.5.6.

Jeremy

[BernardLanguillier]

1.9.7 RC2 solves the abend issues on OSX, GPU acceleration remains un-usable on my Mac Pro.

Cheers,
Bernard

[Sigi]

Hello

I am not a computer expert so this question might be stupid. I have an imac (bought 2007), 4GB RAM and Leopard. I see that there are two versions for downloads one in 32 bit and one in 64 bit?
How do I know which one I should download?

Thanks

Sigi

PS: I have downloaded the 32 bit version for testing - it works as far as I can tell - but I am not sure if I should not have downloaded the 64 bit version

[BernardLanguillier]

Hello

I am not a computer expert so this question might be stupid. I have an imac (bought 2007), 4GB RAM and Leopard. I see that there are two versions for downloads one in 32 bit and one in 64 bit?
How do I know which one I should download?

The 64 bits version should be able to adress a larger chunck of memory, which should translate in better performance for large panos if you have enough RAM and are on Leopard. Frankly speaking I believe that Leopard still has many limitations as far as 64 bits adressing, and my guess is that Snow Leopard should deliver more values in such cases. The good news being that it is supposed to be only a few months away.

With only 4GB RAM, you will probably not see much of a difference.

Cheers,
Bernard