[ptx] Re: Autopano-sift installation problems...

[fogel.neuro at dkd-wiesbaden.de]

Hi Richard,
thanks for your comment. I´ll compare both procedures (autopano/HuginOSX and
SiftHelper/HuginOSX) to see where the results are best.
I agree with HuginOSX. It´s the best panorama programm for Mac I have seen
and tried so far. Much better than Photoshop. Especially the integration of
Enblend is a huge step forward for creating nice panoramas. And even if
autopano doesn´t work...creating control points in a one row panorama is
feasible I was just wondering all the time as things tend to work on a Mac
which was not the case for autopano. Thanks to your tips it does no
Regards
Wolfgang

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Tucker" <rit at pobox.com>
To: <fogel.neuro at dkd-wiesbaden.de>
Cc: <ptx at email-lists.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [ptx] Re: Autopano-sift installation problems...



Wolfgang wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>your trick with deinstalling the 1.1.9 version of the mono framework and
reinstalling the 1.1.8 version did work. Thanks for the tip. Even
autopan-sift within huginOSX now seems to work......unfortunately,it only
SEEMS to work. I don´t get any error messages but there are not enough
control points (some pictures even have ZERO control points although I
managed to create quite a few manually as there is a substantial overlap
between the photos. Do you know what´s going wrong?
>Thanks again for your help
>Wolfgang

Glad you got it working.

Yes, that was my experience too. I found adjusting the "number of control
points" option in Hugin didn't help very much either. My guess is that Hugin
doesn't invoke autopano-sift with very appropriate arguments.

I had more success using Sift Helper. It generates a script which you run to
generate a .pto file, which you can then load into Hugin. I got more control
points this way... but they still have a tendency to be clumped together,
and I got the best results by adding a few more myself. I expect it depends
to some extent on what your images are like.

I hope this helps. Apart from the difficulties in getting it to work with
autopano, I'm hugely impressed with HuginOSX, and I certainly won't go back
to using Photoshop Elements to stitch things together.

r/