I am getting fed up with stitcher!
 
Everytime I try to render, it crashes when it's nearly finished. Rendering to a JPG is possible, however with a little bit of luck. Just trying different memory settings over and over again, and once in a while you get lucky, and stitcher actually manages to finish te rendering process without crashing.
But rendering to a PSD document, is completely impossible for me. I have tried now dozens of times. Put the memory slider on almost every position from 0% to 100%, but every single time, stitcher crashes at 96%/99%. I am highly disappointed at this product! Am I the only one who with this problem?
Is there anything else that I can try to get a PSD render without crashing?

Are you a Windoofs-PC or a PowerPC-Mac-Man or a Intel-Mac-Man?
 
Stitchies

Simple suggestion I know, but why exactly do do want to render to PSD?

I always render in PSD, because this is the only way to get a seemless highres-pano. With any other tested renderoption no software can make a good highres pano - Stitcher is the best I tried, but it is not perfect. With the PSD-Output I have the opportunity to correct this little missalingments very good.
 
Stitchies

As stitchies said, PSD render is very useful for correcting small mistakes, due to it's layered output. Unfortunately PSD render results in a crash every single time.
I use stitcher on a Windows XP SP2 PC, with an Intel processor. My system should not be a problem (Core 2 Duo, 2 GB Mem). I have managed to render a PSD, but that only works if I don't use the "Smart" blending. However, without Smart blending, the pano looks a lot worse.
So basically: Smart blending + PSD render = CRASH !

So does Smart blending + JPEG (or TIFF) = OK?

Yes, Smart blending + JPEG works. However usually not at the first try. I have to try a few times, and if I'm lucky, stitcher can finishes rendering the JPG without crashing.

Hi all,
 
Hope this helps you.
 
Me - PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz - 768 MB on 10.4.11 - Stitcher 5.1
 
I always render to PSD & occasionally get these probs, when I haven't used the prog for a while & I suppose the direct route to the TEMP folder gets written over.
 
I can sometimes assign the TEMP folder to an external hard drive & speed up the process, but when it crashes I resolve this prob with:
 
1. Bringing all my jpegs used for the stitch onto a folder, or a few folders deep, onto the Desktop.
 
2. Go into Stitcher prefs > Memory = 0%
 
3. Stitcher prefs > External Links > Temporary files - & create a folder "TEMP" straight on Desktop. The window should show ...... HD name:Users:your IDesktop:TEMP:RzTempFiles
 
4. Then manually choosing all the Render options again.
 
5. Once again choosing a Filename to make the Render-save sure (directly on Desktop - no folders)  - Filename is a single letter (ie "a" ). You can rename after the save in Finder.
 
6. During the render, go make a cup of tea or something, don't even move the cursor to un-dim the screen.
 
This method is about 85% fail proof. Touch wood  :-)
 

HD name:Users:your IDesktop:TEMP:RzTempFiles
 
The smiley shouldn't be there - it's Desktop preceded by a colon.