Autopano is dead - or is it? No release schedule, no nothing

[Pany42]

Autopano is dead - or is it? No release schedule, no nothing

by Pany42 » Thu Aug 04, 2016 6:02 am

To anyone getting the idea of posting somehting about Autopano's Future in the "Autopano Future" forum: Don't bother, after the acquisition of Kolor the development seems to have stopped and I've seen no official dev or support reply here for ages. It's a pity, but there you are.

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/24098 ... cquisition

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[erikgraham]

Re: Autopano is dead, don't bother posting in the Future for

by erikgraham » Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:50 pm

So what is the alternative for someone (me) who wants to shoot stereo 3D 360 video?

[AlexandreJ]

Re: Autopano is dead, don't bother posting in the Future for

by AlexandreJ » Fri Aug 19, 2016 2:20 pm

That's not true. Autopano Giga is a strong product which provides the engine behind Autopano Video.
Even if the development is slower currently as we concentrating our effort on stitching video, the development continues. We have some nice features lineup for next big version ( aka autopano v5 ).

And as always, we listen to our customers. So if you post in future forum, we'll take your demand to drive roadmap. If you don't, we won't be aware.

[erikgraham]

Re: Autopano is dead, don't bother posting in the Future for

by erikgraham » Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:55 pm

Ok. That's a bit of a relief for a newbie like myself who just dropped some serious $$ on Avp and Giga.

[slipstick]

Re: Autopano is dead, don't bother posting in the Future for

by slipstick » Fri Aug 19, 2016 6:26 pm

That's not true. Autopano Giga is a strong product which provides the engine behind Autopano Video.
Even if the development is slower currently as we concentrating our effort on stitching video, the development continues. We have some nice features lineup for next big version ( aka autopano v5 ).

Thank you for chiming in with the reassurance.

[jon albert]

Re: Autopano is dead, don't bother posting in the Future for

by jon albert » Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:08 pm

To anyone getting the idea of posting somehting about Autopano's Future in the "Autopano Future" forum: Don't bother, after the acquisition of Kolor the development seems to have stopped and I've seen no official dev or support reply here for ages. It's a pity, but there you are.

That sounds me a lot!
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[Pany42]

Re: Autopano is dead, don't bother posting in the Future for

by Pany42 » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:15 pm

That's not true.

Good to hear that - though you needed 14 days to react to a "your product is dead" post :-o

Even if the development is slower currently as we concentrating our effort on stitching video, the development continues. We have some nice features lineup for next big version ( aka autopano v5 ).

That's nice to hear, but rather unsubstantiated and about what you are about to say, isn't it?

I'm sure next to a very rough release schedule, your customers would be glad to hear something about the nice features you've planned! That would prevent us from requesting something that is already on its way. For example, are you going to keep up with Adobe and their "boundary warp" in PS & LR?

[leedsjoe]

Re: Autopano is dead - or is it? No release schedule, no not

by leedsjoe » Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:21 pm

As Alexandre knows, I worked with Autopano from its early stages.

Am having problems of performance running under Window 10, also another problem with the latest APG release so using 4.2.3.

Cannot find any posts here during 2017. Today is 5/8/2018.

?

[snaefell]

Re: Autopano is dead - or is it? No release schedule, no not

by snaefell » Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:53 pm

As Alexandre knows, I worked with Autopano from its early stages.

Am having problems of performance running under Window 10, also another problem with the latest APG release so using 4.2.3.

Cannot find any posts here during 2017. Today is 5/8/2018.

?

Now more than two years have passed since Alexandre's answer, the last version is 4.4.1 from may 2017, nothing to see of updates to it, let alone a version 5 which was also announced. Keeping in mind that Gopro had financial troubles and laid off a lot of people, I am not very optimistic. Also the panorama competition has not been taken place since 2016.
This makes me sad, I've been using Autopano since the early versions and still think it's the best stitching software. I will continue to use it as long as it works, but if there is not further development, I will have to switch if it stops working.