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I went back to a recent location to re-shoot when the light was better and the sky was blue. 396 shots in RAW, controlling my SkyWatcher/Merlin and camera via Bluetooth from a Nokia N800. The pano looked perfect after a Papywizard import into APG RC1, even without optimizing. The first picture is the direct import, the second after optimization. Optimization yielded an RMS error of about 2.35. I manually deleted a few higher points and re-optimized. (Is it just me or does the "delete control points" button in the editor seem to be disconnected? I can have obviously high error points and clicking the button fails to delete ANY points at all.) Total time before rendering, less than an hour 
Unfortunately, I have twice had APG RC1 crash halfway through rendering if I tried to go anywhere near full-sized. I can easily render a "tiny" 10,000 wide one. Upon seeing RC2 was out, I downloaded it and am trying a render now.
Direct Papywizard import:
After optimization:
Last edited by jriley (2009-04-19 21:42:44)
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Are these screenshot RC1 or RC2 ?
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RC1. I have downloaded RC2 and it rendered the pano successfully. I'm loving APG Seriously, I was stunned at how well it imported using Papywizard data and found control points; there were no spurious CPs in the sky even 
One optimization and BAM! it was perfect 
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I'm very impressed by the rendition of the sky with all those missing control points. One of the many virtues of papywizard, I guess.
In your successful rendering with RC2 what blend algorithm did you use? What is the final pixel size of the pano, and what format did you save in?
Finally, are you running a 64 bit system?
Mike.
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mgg310 wrote:
I'm very impressed by the rendition of the sky with all those missing control points. One of the many virtues of papywizard, I guess.
In your successful rendering with RC2 what blend algorithm did you use? What is the final pixel size of the pano, and what format did you save in?
Finally, are you running a 64 bit system?
Mike.
Yes, Papywizard is GREAT! It would have been a horrible pain in the &$$ to deal with that sky without the Papywizard import feature. I used multiband blending. I decided that I need to mask out a few things, so I plan to render it again. I may try smartblend this time, but not sure if it is worth the much longer render time. A render at 100% size is 91094 x 29739 and file size is 10.1GB in .psb format. My Mac is 64 bits, but I can't use the 64 bit version of APG yet, since I am on OS X 10.4 (you need 10.5 to run the 64 bit version.) Time to upgrade 
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Thanks for the info. I'm running into limitations with 32bit on Windows, especially with Smartblend. My upgrade ambitions are 64 bit, then Papywizard - GFC permitting!
Here's a pano from the other side of the bridge, in daylght.
Mike.
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I was having some issues with the 32-bit version crashing as well...installed Ubuntu 64-bit through Wubi which made a 20-gig file on my hard drive where it lives and run autopano through there. Works beautifully and didn't need to re-partition or anything. Easiest linux install I ever did and Autopano runs much more stabily then 32-bit XP
Last edited by tarnis (2009-04-21 16:49:02)
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The RC2 crash in gigapan / papywizard import has been solved for final release. It crashed in presence of full white image images without any CP.
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Tarnis,
Interesting... Do you have a 64bit processor? How much RAM do you have?
Mike.
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mike: sorry...didn't see your reply if it's not too late. 64-bit intel q6600 and 8gigs. Actually I'm having issues now... anything over 4 gigs doesn't render properly. not sure if it's AP or something with WUBI's file system.
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