My Autopano Pro forum

I have the following tree:
/mnt/sdb3/purgatory/20081013/04/a/ -2EV raws here
/mnt/sdb3/purgatory/20081013/04/b/ 0EV raws here
/mnt/sdb3/purgatory/20081013/04/c/ +2EV raws here
All of these raws were named 001-027.pef
so /a/001.pef - 027.pef
/b/001.pef - 027.pef
/c/001.pef - 027.pef

I saved three .pano files to /home/drslony/pictures/panoramas/20081013 *.pano
One pano for a (-2EV), one for b (0EV), one for c (+2EV).

I open "20081013 04 a.pano" in APP and then click on Merge Panoramas and choose "20081013 04 b.pano" and "20081013 04 c.pano"
Instead of reading the 001.pef - 027.pef files from the different dirs and thereby creating 3 layers in this pano, each layer having a different bracketed set, APP just creates three layers using the same "20081013 04 a" images (-2EV).



Solution:
I had to rename /a/###.pef to /a/###a.pef
/b/###.pef to /b/###b.pef
/c/###.pef to /c/###c.pef
This forced APP to read all the files and therefore add two layers to the currently open -2EV pano, one 0EV and one +2EV.



ps. why am I doing it like this, instead of just rendering the three .pano files separately? Well smartblend sometimes chooses different places as merge borders between images, which gives me problems when I fuse or tonemap these resulting 3 panoramas; those differing places make ghosts. I hope that merging panoramas as I did now and rendering using %L will give me three panoramas with the merge borders plotted identically on each pano. I will tell you tomorrow if it worked.