I use Kolor Autopano Giga for stitching, and recently I’ve been trying to work with forty of fifty panoramas at a time. I’ve gotten tired of looking at this:
Murphy was right. I usually get the message when I have a lot of unsaved files open. AutoPano doesn’t have a one-operation workspace saving mechanism — you have to click through saving each of the open projects, so it’s a hassle to save your workspace.
After some trial and error I’ve determined that the problem almost always occurs when you’re manipulating — viewing or editing — projects while background rendering is going on. I’ve come up with a workaround.
Open Autopano and browse folders until you find the one you want. Tell the program to import the images and automatically detect the panoramas. Go do something else while it finishes. Then edit all the found panoramas, eliminating the ones you don’t want. Then go to the bottom of the right-hand pane, and click on the little gear. Tell the program to render all panoramas. While it’s doing that, don’t mess with Autopano. You can use other programs, but leave Autopano alone until it’s finished rendering the panoramas.
I’ve had similar troubles. I also find it crashes when you just have too many image groups or too many panoramas (more sensitive to number of panos in gpu mode) however, the new 3.0alpha1 seems to deal with too many groups/panos much better.
Thanks, Bryn. I don’t do alphas (and hardly ever betas), but I’m glad to know that help is on the way.
Jim
Hi,
There is a “Save all Panoramas” button at the bottom of the panoramas list since the first version of Autopano….
Anonymous,
You are right about that, but, as I said in the original post, the program makes you confirm the save for each panorama that’s open. If you’ve got 50 panos open, you’ve got to click “save” 50 times. There is no one-click “Save Workspace” option.
Jim
I now have processed six or seven hundred panos in groups of 20 to 50 using the methodology in the post. No crashes. It’s always dangerous to declare victory with these intermittent problems, but I’m hopeful.