Best settings for autopano pro?

[BernardLanguillier]

Dear all,

Since I do need to produce quickly a HDR interior pano shot, I decided to give a try to Autopano Pro 1.3.

PTgui 7.0 will also support HDR, but the current beta is not usable yet for production work.

I downloaded autopano pro and tried it on a large 360 degrees pano (41 Mamiya ZD images - 16bits TIFFs). The preview seemed pretty nice with a natural rendition of the DR.

I changed a few options from the default (among other interpolation that I switched to spline 64) and launched the computation. It crashed after 10 minutes without even an error message.

I am using a 8 core Mac Pro with 16GB RAM. OS is OSX10.4.9.

I was wondering what were the best settings to get both a high quality stitch and a stable behavior?

Thank you in advance,

Regards,
Bernard

[Ray]

Bernard,
I don't recall ever experiencing a crash with Autopano on my Win XP 64 system. However, I did once succeed in stitching an image so large that it exceeded the TIF file size limits and I was unable to open the saved image. Had to repeat the stitch using PSB.

All I can suggest is that you apply a process of elimination to find out if a particular setting consistently causes a crash after rebooting.

[BernardLanguillier]

I'll check tonight if it worked with my modified list of settings.

If it doesn't I'll probably just give up and use PTgui instead.

Regards,
Bernard

[feppe]

Don't use the spline rendering modes, they take exponentially longer with minute differences in image quality. I tested it out, and had to use PS's difference blending mode to see if the shots were actually different.

Since it's a massive pano, I'd recommend doing a few sub-max resolution runs (at 25% or so) to see if everything is right before committing your computer for an overnight calculation.

If that doesn't fix crashing, post on autopano's support forum; there are quite a few people with more experience with the software than here.

[BernardLanguillier]

Hi Feppe,

Thanks for the feedback.

I have made another attempt last night and the computation could complete this time. I used spline 32 instead of spline 64.

The results seem to be nice, but I'll have to look more at this. Computation speed seems to be slow compared to PTgui, but it might be because of the advanced options I tried to activate.

I have decided to buy a license to give this baby a more in depth review.

Regards,
Bernard

[jani]

I am using a 8 core Mac Pro with 16GB RAM. OS is OSX10.4.9.

Dear Bernard.

It's good for your continued sanity that you don't live near me, or you'd have me banging on your door too often.  

Keep us posted on your progress!

[BernardLanguillier]

Dear Bernard.

It's good for your continued sanity that you don't live near me, or you'd have me banging on your door too often. 

Keep us posted on your progress!
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You'd be most welcome to drop by Jan. I happen to have a Belgian friend whose name is... Jan... living 200 m away from me here in Tokyo.

He has never expressed much interest for my Mac though.

Cheers,
Bernard