My Autopano Pro forum

I've processed one to two hundred panos now and have some observations about the program hanging during the generation of the projection.

I am processing adobe.dng files. My system is a Mac 10.5x and there are 3 to 18 images in each pano. All are three-image, exposure bracketed, sets. The settings are autocrop, autoexpose, and save and close. Autolevels is off. Number of points varies from the default to 200. I begin by moving sets for each group from the lightroom display to the autopano display. After moving 1 to a few dozen sets, I click the detect all button.

I define a hang as occurring when the detect process moves from the left panal to the right where the projection preview is displayed. If the busy bar extends about 1/8th inch from the beginning then stops progressing for two to three minutes (or as long as several hours in one case), I assume it has hung (especially for three images) and click the red abort button on the left panel which removes that group. But clicking the red abort button on the right panel does nothing and I have to force quit.

The only constant is that any set that fails can be processed using autopano 1.4.2.

Usually the hang involves a group of three exposure bracketed images. Failure has occurred with two sets of three bracketed images. Sometimes when I go back and try the group, by itself, it works. Sometimes the only way I can complete the detection process is to use 1.4.2. Once, I combined two sets of three bracketed images that had each failed and moved them as one group and the software returned two panos, as it should have done initially.

I hope this detail helps, because I like the look of 1.9.0 better than 1.4.2