[ptx] What's your panorama workflow with hugin?

[Mike Runge]

Hi everybody,

I'm interested to know how do you develop your panoramas with Hugin.
As a start, here's my workflow:

- Shooting 4 or 4+2 images per panorama (Pentax istD + Sigma 8mm)

- selecting the images and copying it into the pef folders (kind of directory structure I use). The Pentax RAW format is called pef - that's where the name comes from.  
- panos
   - pano1
      - dev
      - pef
    - pano2
      - dev
      - pef
... 

- developing the RAW images (Pentax Photolab) and saving them into the dev folders

- Editing a simple batchfile that runs autopano-sift over a range of dev folders)

- running the batchfile  (gives a Hugin.pto in each folder)
-----------------snip batchfile1----------------------------------
cd E:\panos\pano1\dev
C:\01_mike\ut\panostuff\Autopano-SIFT-2.3\02_sift-cmd.vbs -o Hugin.pto -s 1600 -p 16 -n -c n01.tif n02.tif n03.tif n04.tif n05.tif n06.tif

cd E:\panos\pano2\dev\
C:\01_mike\ut\panostuff\Autopano-SIFT-2.3\02_sift-cmd.vbs -o Hugin.pto -s 1600 -p 16 -n -c n01.tif n02.tif n03.tif n04.tif n05.tif n06.tif

.....
-----------------snap batchfile1----------------------------------

- for each dev folder
    - opening Hugin.pto
    - setting r=90deg for all images
    - applying lens template
    - setting crop for all images
    - optimize, delete wrong cp's, optimize, delete wrong cp's, ...
    (- set verticals)
    - optimize all
    - set stitch options (size, multiple tiff, do not delete temp. files)
    - save

- editing a second simple batchfile that runs nona and smartblend over 
the folders
-----------------snip batchfile1----------------------------------
cd E:\panos\pano1\dev
nona -o mt_ Hugin.pto
smartblend -HorWrap 6000 -WrapMode 0 -o mid.tif mt_0000.tif mt_0001.tif mt_0002.tif mt_0003.tif mt_0004.tif mt_0005.tif
mogrify -flip mid.tif
convert -quality 85 mid.tif mid.jpg