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grapedrink wrote:

I have some panoramas that I've tried to stitch that look perfectly fine in the preview window but when i render them they come out completely different, often with empty spaces in them or all kinds of mistakes or the bottom part of the image missing.. i don't think i changed any settings, anyone know how to fix this? i can stitch them fine with my old version of autostitch so there's no reason why autopano shouldn't be able to.. i'm using bicubic/smartblend which are the default settings right?

this problem threw me for a loop when I first started to use APP, the problem turned out to be simply poor stitching.

look in the editor to the left, you should see notes from APP on the quality of the pano. If there's anything there that looks bad, like a bad link or a negative RMS, try to fix that. There's nothing to say that the rendered pano has to look as good as the prerender.

Last edited by touristguy87 (2009-03-01 23:53:54)

ive never had problems before, ever, but suddenly now often things will look perfectly fine in the editor and come out completely garbled in the render or sometimes they'll be really stretched out in the editor too. in every case i load the files up in autostitch and theres no problem.. try downloading the file i have and stitching those four pictures together, do you get the same result as me? i really don't get it, app used to do everything autostitch did and then some (much more), but now for whatever reason, or whatever setting its completely useless..

grapedrink wrote:

I just don't get it, i reinstalled, restored defaults and i still get these messed up panoramas.. here's a link to a zip file containing four pictures and the garbled panorama i get, its 5mbs. http://www.mediafire.com/file/yhyyzztjljy/a.zip

I didn't have a problem with it. I used APP1.4.2 on Windows 2000 on an old laptop to stitch and render.

Even with no EXIF data the result is OK, I think.

I tweaked the CPs a little, but even the initial auto stitch was acceptable.

Rendered with spline36 interpolator and Smartblend.

What detection settings did you use?

Last edited by mediavets (2009-03-02 01:02:33)

ok so when i tried to stitch the compressed no exif files i uploaded for you guys, no problems, everything worked great. but when i went back again and tried with my original full size jpgs (with exif), it got all messed up.. and this problem happens with both my dslr -and- my p&s..

grapedrink wrote:

ok so when i tried to stitch the compressed no exif files i uploaded for you guys, no problems, everything worked great. but when i went back again and tried with my original full size jpgs (with exif), it got all messed up.. and this problem happens with both my dslr -and- my p&s..

here´s my "quick and dirty" version:

hankkarl wrote:

please post a picture of the bad results.  .

This is what the OP got.

Last edited by mediavets (2009-03-02 02:26:18)

thanks everyone but i figured it out, it only happened with vertical pictures and i'd been using canons zoombrowser to rotate my jpgs, i guess when it rotated them it did something that app didn't like. when i rotate them in photoshop or export a new jpg from a raw file in bridge app works just the way it should..

mediavets: but the program he rotated them with forgot to update the exif, and so APP was fooled.

grapedrink wrote:

thanks everyone but i figured it out, it only happened with vertical pictures and i'd been using canons zoombrowser to rotate my jpgs, i guess when it rotated them it did something that app didn't like. when i rotate them in photoshop or export a new jpg from a raw file in bridge app works just the way it should..

OT: Have you tried DPP  (Digital Photo Professional) ?  Its a better editor than zoombrowser

ok i didn't read all the arguing, i've been using zoombrowser for years, when i download the pictures of my card it automatically re-orients the photos that were shot vertical, its worked fine for 5+ years. something must have happened because now it doesn't automatically do it so i went and highlighted all the vertical shots and did it manually. these manually rotated shots in zoombrowser are what app cannot stitch properly. then i took an example of four jpgs that app was having trouble with, highlighted them, right click>convert in zoombrowser. this is just a quick and easy way to compress a jpg from 3-4 megs to 500k, i guess in the process it strips the exif. these are the jpgs i uploaded to you guys, but these stitch fine. so all that to say manually rotating images in zoombrowser (for me) creates jpgs that app does not like (but work fine in autostitch). not a big deal because i only use those jpgs for test panos, i shoot raw+jpg and eventually tweak and re-output everything from bridge but hadn't gotten to that stage with these photos. hope this helps you all, thanks again!

grapedrink could you please test something for me? Take those incompatible shots and put them into a group in APP again and stitch, to make sure APP still has problems with them. If it still does, goes back to the group, open the image properties editor, and change any one parameter of just one of your shots by any amount, e.g. change "Focal (35mm equiv)" from 15 to 16 (in the table of images, not in the top text boxes). Now click on Detect again, and tell us if APP still had trouble with them.

Last edited by DrSlony (2009-03-03 13:05:57)