I just bought a new MacPro (2x4x2,8) and I can say there is not much difference in Speed with Stitcher against my old G5 1,8 Single.
Can I do something to speed Stitcher UL a bit up on my new Intel-Mac?
Are there any plans for a Stitcher UL multiprocessor support for Mac in the future?
 
Stitchies

Well myself I noticed a real improvement between my old G5 (2*2.7Ghz) and new Macpro at begin But now i'm completely unable to use Stitcher for rendering, as each time I ask him to render a pano either in JPG or QTVR it either crashes or freezes !! I'm just starting to ask me if it's really compatible with Mac Intel
 
Vincèn

I only used the PSD Output in Stitcher now for a long time (on my G5 and the New DualQuadMacPro) and I had till now no problems with crashes. But I had these kinds of problems on my G5 when I tried to make the PSD (Test-JPG and -TiFF were always OK), I than had to create a new folder and edit the User-Rights, after this the PSD-Output worked everytime in this special folder (in this Forum is the threat about this problem) on my G5. Maybe your Problem is not Stitcher itself but a similar Rightsmanagement Problem like I had on my G5.
I just tried the JPG-Output for you, and I had no problems on my new Intel-Mac.
Are you using Tiger or Leopard, I´m on Leopard 10.5.1.
 
BTW: On this new DualQuadCore-Intel-Mac with 10.5.1. I can see that Stitcher UL always just uses "one" Proccesor! and this only between 10% and 60%, this is horrible inefficent and I really wonder if this is OK???
Is there maybe a knop in Stitcher UL where I can select: Multiprocessor-Support??? I can´t find it!
 
Stitchies

Thanks for all these details, in fact I found origin of problem, setup of rendering was setup to 0% of picture !! I don't understand why When I putted it back to 100% everything went back to a more normal behaviour
I'm working with Leopard 10.5.1 (hope 10.5.2 is there soon
For settings of multiprocessor I didn't see one somewhere, config file of Stitcher has very few things but nothing that looks as multiprocessor on or off
 
Vincèn

Hi stitchies & vincen!
 
Stitcher does not currently (v5.6.x) have a multi-processor capability.

Thanks Jim for clarification Would you know if it's planned soon to be implemented in Stitcher or not at all planned ?
 
Thanks in advance
 
VIncèn

Hi Vincèn!
 
Yes, multi-processor support is planned, along with the ability to address more than 2 Gigs of physical RAM; but when this update will occur is beyond my knowledge.
 
v5.6.x delivered more bugs than features as far as I can tell. I would hope that Realviz will focus on creating a professional level product on its next release, what ever enhancements are added.

It would be really great as multiprocessor is now the rule whatever you are on PC or Mac, and more than 2Gigs of RAM also, so Realviz please hear our voices    
Yep we can hope next major release will be nicer and better lol  

'm bummed. Just got my new MacPro 2.88 GHz 8 Core.  
10 GB of Ram.  
With OS 10.5.1  
 
And Stitcher 5.6.2 crashes each time I try to render. I guess it's not fixed yet......
 
 
stitchies - are you actually able to do a stitch with the new machine & Leopard?      

Hmmm,
 
I am now rendering a stitch in Cubical format first. Seems to be working. Usually I do a Spherical High res first, then convert to cube faces for retouching, then back to spherical. I guess this saves a step.
As long as it works......
The Cubical format went really fast. I am trying now to convert that to a High Res Sperical. We'll see.....
It does seem to be working. 30% now and no crash.
 

That seemed to work. I'll do more test. In the mean time I did get an answer from Tech support about my crashes. May help some of your problems too (aside from single processor blues....). Here's what he sent me:
 
I would suggest eliminating preferences which is different in 5.6.  You can have previous version on the machine, I have about 9.  After removing preferences, try the troubleshooting items below.  They take care of pretty much everything on Mac.
 
Quit Stitcher
Open a finder and go to Applications\REALVIZ\Stitcher Unlimited 5.6
directory
Right-click on the StitcherUnlimited.app binary
Choose "Show package content"
Open the Content folder
Open the MacOS folder
 
Delete these 2 files:
 
StitcherUnlimited.uipref
StitcherUnlimitedPreferences
 
Restart your Mac and run Stitcher again.
 
 
 
- In Preferences, go to the "External Links" section and define your "Temp Files" to a folder on a drive/partition with at least 10GB of free space.
 
- Go to OSX System Preferences, to the Spotlight section and make the above folder Private.
 
- In the "Memory" section of preferences, move the 'image cache' slider below 50%.  If you continue to have problems, move it to 0% which will eliminate a memory management problem.
 
- Render to a TIFF file and check the 'use strip' checkbox in the render dialog.
 
- Avoid special characters such as )(*&^%$#@_ and spaces.
 
 
Best regards,
 
REALVIZ support

I did what they suggested and now am Running a High Res Spherical render now - and nearly 3 minutes into it - 20% of total - and no crash!
SOMETIMES Tech Support does come through.....
Thanks RealViz.