Just to chime in here...
I don't know what "cost-image" means. I get it often, yet it doesn't
cause any problems.
I almost always do my crop in Hugin. I generally use autoclip, then
adjust boundaries as I needed to remove extraneous bits. Sometimes I
don't clip the panorama in Hugin, but it still works without problems.
I always use 48-bit TIFF (16-bit per channel) from RawTherapee.
I suspect the issues are coming from control points and position
calculation. If you're using the panorama assistant, it does a lot of
cleanup on control points that you're maybe not going manually?
My process (using the Expert Interface):
1. Load images.
2. Go to control points tab and go through the images setting
horizontal lines (if needed).
3. On Photos tab, run CPFind, then Positions (incremental).
4. Right-click in a blank area of the list of images and clean control
points.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4, but using the next Geometric option down.
6. After running the "Everything except translation" option and
cleaning control points, view the panorama using Preview Panorama
(OpenGL). Use Move/Drag and Projection to center and fit it.
7. Use Crop to autocrop it.
8. Drag crop borders to adjust. Close the Preview Panorama window.
9. On the Photos tab, calculate the Photometric optimization.
10. On the Stitcher tab, calculate optimal size, save the PTO, and stitch.
I think cleaning the control points is what makes the difference for me.
I've also sometimes seen Hugin misread the focal length on an image.
When that happens, I get weird results, and my process eventually hits a
point where Hugin says that calculated values are invalid. But you would
see that before getting to the actual stitching stage.
Helpful?
On 11/7/22 06:31, Alexander Drecun wrote:
What is the cost-image? I'm wondering if both of you may, in one way
or another, be pointing to the issue giving me problems. I was
attempting to export stitches that were uncropped - that is to say,
all of the edges of the panorama being visible - so that I could make
decisions about cropping later, once I'd straightened the mosaic in a
photo editing software like Gimp, but maybe doing that has been
creating issues. I say that in part because some of the successful
stitches I've made recently have come using Hugin in "simple" mode
with a crop automatically applied.
Out of curiosity, have any of you had greater or less success
depending on the file type you've used? I've experienced almost no
success working with tiffs and pngs created off of the original raw
files via Lightroom, but I'm getting more successful stitches with
jpegs off of those same raw files. I should clarify that these
successes and failures are coming while running tests on the same
image set, DSC0175-DSC0235, just tiff vs png vs jpeg.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 6:03 AM John Fine <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 7:25 PM Alexander Drecun
<[email protected]> wrote:
enblend: warning: unable to run Dijkstra optimizer
enblend: note: seam-line end point outside of cost-image
I'm not sure I'm remembering correctly. If I am, this might help:
I have had a lot of problems similar to that. I think they
occured in panoramas with ragged edges.
When I had not taken photos far enough beyond what I actually
wanted, I had the problem that assembly of the panorama would tilt
the outside edges of individual photos (not parallel to the
panorama edge) so I had to either clip to exclude some of the
content I wanted, or clip wider to include some empty space (make
the edge of the final panorama ragged). The latter had the extra
problem that I think matches what you described.
I think you can avoid it by clipping tighter.
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