I had a 2.4ghz Mac Book Pro 2GB RAM, which everything worked fine on rendered using Smart rendering with ease :0) ....now I have a 2.53ghz MBP 4GB RAM and every time I try to render using “smart” (spherical or cylindrical), Stitcher gets part way through and dumps me out in the street...well closes down with no error report

Linear and morph work fine (except the fuzzy joins) but using “smart” and “external” it doesn’t complete

I’ve tried using the GPU tick option, and adjusting the memory image cache size from 0% to 100% and 25% in between

Any thoughts?

Graham

Oh, I also moved from Tiger to Leopard

Hi Graham. I wish I could help, but I can only commiserate.

I too am having crashes when I use smart render (100% of the time), I’m very very unhappy about this (on a Mac Pro running 10.5.x, Stitcher Unlimited 5.6, gobs of ram and HD space). I’ve tried rendering to psd, tiff and jpeg, I’ve altered the amount of RAM the program has (from zero to 75% of my 8GB), and I use a dedicated striped RAID 0 array for scratch (200GB space free). I’ve even tried the same render on my Macbook Pro (Intel, 4GB RAM), still the same failure. Removal of the prefs and reinstallation has not had any effect (and my apologies in advance to anyone who might suggest I upgrade to a newer version, but I refuse to do so in order to make an earlier version function as it should).

I actually came looking for the Realviz forums, because I remembered a post that addressed this issue. What a waste of valuable resources to take those fora down. I am genuinely now going to abandon Stitcher and move to an alternative (quite sad, I’ve been using the software since version 3).

Chas

At which pourcentage did the crash occur ? During blending process or during the image rendering steps ?

If you do very large panorama render I suggest you render it as a tiff (write a jpeg files impose to have the whole render in memory and it can crash all type applications, image viewers...).

It’s possible that is bug is related to the fact you have a very large amount of RAM. (I see that snooks get 4Gb and you chasg get 8Gb).

Have you tried EnBlend instead of Smartblend? I believe in some systems on some macs this works better.

Andrew Baddeley
360 Tactical VR
Immersive Imaging Solutions
http://www.360tacticalvr.com

Double post see below :0)

La_feuille 06 February 2009 03:01 PM

At which pourcentage did the crash occur ? During blending process or during the image rendering steps ?

If you do very large panorama render I suggest you render it as a tiff (write a jpeg files impose to have the whole render in memory and it can crash all type applications, image viewers...).

It’s possible that is bug is related to the fact you have a very large amount of RAM. (I see that snooks get 4Gb and you chasg get 8Gb).

Thanks…
It crashes when I’m rendering i.e.after aligning, adjusting camera, setting the horizon etc

Percentage varies10-50%, but my computer is handling it fine, no excess processors usage or memory usage at the time of the crash

Rendering as a tif crashed out as well

badders 06 February 2009 05:51 PM

Have you tried EnBlend instead of Smartblend? I believe in some systems on some macs this works better.

EnBlend? I’ve got the option of smart, morph, linear or external crashes on smart and external...fine on Linear and morph, but the sticth quality is poor

Oh and I’ve just found out I can’t render QTVR Movies, it gets to around 90% and then doesn’t save

Yes - Enblend. That’s the “external” option. If you get enblend off the internet and install on your machine then point the external link to it in prefs.

Andrew Baddeley
360 Tactical VR
Immersive Imaging Solutions
http://www.360tacticalvr.com

badders 10 February 2009 05:01 AM

Yes - Enblend. That’s the “external” option. If you get enblend off the internet and install on your machine then point the external link to it in prefs.

Is there a Mac version?