Thanks. I've heard of hugin but I didn't know what it was. And, yes,
the only problem with Autostitch is that, if it's your only software and
you occasionally hand it a tough one that it can't solve there is no
recourse. It just doesn't work. But that's rare.
Chuck Norcutt
Dan Mitchell wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> With the right software the knowledge required is about zilch. I use
>> PTGUI these days because I'm familiar with it and have owned it for a
>> long time. I had abandoned it for a while in favor of Autostitch
>> <http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html> because
>> Autostitch seemed like magic in comparison and had the great advantage
>> of being absolutely free. Since then PTGUI seems to have absorbed some
>> of the magical qualities of Autostitch so I returned to using it as it
>> also had functions that Autostitch doesn't. But it is definitely not
>> free.
>
> I've been making up a bunch of panoramas recently, and have settled on
> the following process:
>
> 1. try autostitch. If it works, great, I'm done; if it doesn't work,
> there's not a lot you can do to fix it (tweaking the various mystery
> coefficients sometimes helps, but mostly not), and when autostitch
> doesn't work it just misses out big chunks of images.
>
> 2. if autostitch fails, use hugin.
>
> Hugin's a free (open source) version of PTGui, and recent versions are
> hooked into autopano, so if you're lucky it'll all work automatically,
> just like autostitch.
>
> The big advantage is that if it _doesn't_ automatically align
> everything, you can still go in there and add control points by hand to
> get it going.
>
>
> Comparing hugin to PTGui: hugin is free, works pretty much as well,
> but has a much more awkward 'panorama preview' window -- ptgui you can
> almost get all the alignment done in that, but in hugin it's just for
> viewing the results of control point alignment and setting the horizon
> level.
>
> -- dan
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