If you use smart blending - stitcher crashes if you use
something else then spherical rendering.
 
for people like me, which like cylindrical rendering for print
its a bad experients.

Using Smart Blend for cylindrical rendering shouldn't crash Stitcher. Are you defining the print area before you render?

Hi toby!
 
I do not do cylindricals - and so my experiments in regard to your question are based on little experience - but I think I possibly found the rat - v5.6.2 itself. v5.6.0 renders to cylindrical TIFF just fine using SmartBlend - even without defining the print area.
 
But v5.6.2 bombs no matter what in this situation (whether defining the print area or not)...
 
Mac version used for all tests.
SmartBlend (internal & external); no sharpening; Bicubic interpolation

Jim - does it still do it if you use Enblend?

Hi Andy et al,
 
Do we access to a bug list from Realviz with ETA on any fixes?
 
Thanks,
Terry

Guys you are right.
I reinstalled Stitcher completely and now it works fine.
 
Just one thing one little bug is still there::
If you change the render-name it still takes the previous name.
The only way is to press enter - but then the rendering starts.
 
Would be grate to have a buglist.
 
thanks - for help,
 
toby

Hi to All!
 
Andrew: "...does it still do it if you use Enblend?"
 
Yes, it still bombed - and then I thought - why not toss Stitcher's Preferences file and see what happens...
my mistake.
 
The following results used the same source images:
 
The Good News: TIFF Cylindrical renders now work for both SmartBlend & enblend.
 
The Bad News: JPEG cylinder (and spherical renders) all show several evenly spaced rectangular artifacts with peculiar small appendages spiraling out from them - and I cannot no longer save the project - "Save" & "Save As..." are disabled (greyed out) at any stage from loading images through the rendering.
 
I tried three separate load/stitch/JPEG renders using Stitcher 5.6.2 - each round had the same artifacts in the same locations.
 
I tried downloading the 5.6.2 patch again from the Realviz site (let's start fresh!) but I got a first ever (for unstuffing a file) "This operation is not permitted" read out as "Error-1".
 
Think I've had enough for tonight.

A few hours later... and it turns out I need to go a few more rounds with Stitcher.
 
Did another download of the 5.6.2 patch - this time no problems.
 
As a result I discovered a few things:
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1) When I threw out my Prefs file it turns out I also tossed my Serial number - very un-Mac Like. One of the first things you consider on a Mac when your app is going AWOL is the Prefs file is corrupted, you trash it and restart the program. Re-set your Prefs. However Stitcher gave me no indication I was in Demo mode (no warnings), I just couldn't save anything... this should have been a clue, but again trashing an app's "Pref" file is SOP for the Mac has never led to this behavior in my 20 years of using the Macintosh OS with any other program (and as you may deduce this is the first time I trashed Stitcher's "Prefs" ).
 
2) The mysterious "rectangle" with "appendages" in my JPEG render as described previously above was actually a mask for the Realviz logo it turns out - which normally shows up in Demo mode in a render - but the mask only showed up as described in the above post, without the logo itself. I discovered this when I reloaded (replaced) Stitcher 5.6.2 and did a JPEG render - and then the logo showed up in its full glory... I needed to re-activate my license. Again very non-standard behavior... I'm downloading a patch for v5.6 and Stitcher acts like I'm a new user, even though 5.6 is in my Realviz folder where 5.6.2 was installed.
 
3) SmartBlend works for cylindrical or spherical renders, TIFF or JPEG. Haven't checked out enblend yet.

enblend (v3.0) works for all Spherical/Cylindrical & TIFF/JPEG combinations.
 
And it really rips... didn't have a clock on it - just hoping it rendered - but reloading v5.6.2 seems to run much faster than my previous 5.6.2/5.6.0 times with enblend.
 
Just went back re-rendered and compared it with my previous notes for this spherical TIFF (half-res @ 4236 px wide) - 1:45 minutes versus 2:10 minutes for the same half-res TIFF under the previous v5.6.0 trial (times rounded to the nearest 5 secs). Stitcher memory at 100% in both cases; 9 images; Bicubic; No Sharpening (plus a stencil in the two bottom caps to remove the panohead arm).
 
Has any one else seen this type of jump between 5.6.0 & 5.6.2?