baidarkabob wrote:

Hi,

I am using autopano pro 2 on an intel macbook pro with 2.4GHz processor and  4gb of ram. I am using this hardware to run windows xp sp3.

What kind of rendering speed should I expect with a 13 image panorama of 33483 x 5635 pixels when doing just the basic processing?

Thanks,

b

impossible to guess - try it. Tell what you experienced and we can discuss about.
There´s a lot factors of influence. Do you run Snow Leopard in 64bit? (check system profiler -> "Software" whether the 64bit kernel is activated).
Essential is a fast external drive for APP´s temp - that speeds up.

best, Klaus

Last edited by klausesser (2010-02-01 15:03:56)

Klaus is correct.

It took about an hour to process the image I mentioned above using "normal priority". That seems overly long and I am trying to figure out why it is so.

I will try again with an external 7200 rpm HD with 150GB free as the scratch disk.

Any suggestions for a fast, reliable, small, high capacity external hard drive? I have been using iomega drives and I am convinced they are junk.

b

Last edited by baidarkabob (2010-02-02 14:00:36)

baidarkabob wrote:

The second time I created the panorama, this time using the external HD as a scratch disk, it took half the time - 32 minutes. This still seems overly long. The other pano program I am using, panorama maker pro5, takes about 4 minutes to stitch these same images.

Which interpolator and blender are you using?

baidarkabob wrote:

The second time I created the panorama, this time using the external HD as a scratch disk, it took half the time - 32 minutes. This still seems overly long. The other pano program I am using, panorama maker pro5, takes about 4 minutes to stitch these same images.

So you mean stitching AND rendering?
How are the results from Panorama Maker 5? Does it use smartblend too? See: smartblend is very hardware-demanding. Maybe multiblend does also, but much faster.
Did you run an optimization in PM5? APP/APG runs optimization automatically when stitching - takes a little time.
Did you activate GPU support in APP/APG`s prefs? That speeds up optimization and the editor very much.

I think 32min. overall isn´t too bad - and 33483 x 5635 pixels is not just small . . . - after all it´s a very complex process!

best, Klaus

Why are you using Windows on a Mac?

It took 4 minutes, 52 seconds to render a larger pano on my Mac Pro with only 3 GB RAM.

- Mac Pro 2.66 Quad-Core Intel Xeon
- 3 GB RAM
- Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.2)
- APP 2.0.6, 64 bit enabled
- Scratch disk for APP is a Serial ATA internal drive, speed 3 GB, 740 GB free.

Pano size: 118872 x 5936 pixels (no downsizing)
19 images, 67 links, 2614 control points
Bicubic, Smartblend

I find that if I have a lot of big applications open, it helps to log out and back in again to clear memory. Then I open only APP and do the rendering. When the memory has been cleared this way, I hear no writing to disk during rendering. Everything happens in the processor. When the blending is complete, then I hear the computer writing to disk.