Stitching with MAC 10.3.9

[sanking]

Are there any good plug-in for Photoshop CS, or stand-alone programs, for stitching with a G4 running MAC OS 10.3.9?

I use Photoshop CS3 on an Intel iMAC running 10.4.11 and the stitching program is excellent, but porting large files to this computer from the one I scan on is irritating and takes time.

Sandy King

[Daniel_Buck]

autopano works on a mac, it's a stand alone program. autopano.net

[Peter De Smidt]

Sandy,

On my g4 scanning computer, I added a USB 2 card, and I use a USB 2 portable hard drive to move files. It works fairly well.

[sanking]

Sandy,

On my g4 scanning computer, I added a USB 2 card, and I use a USB 2 portable hard drive to move files. It works fairly well.

Actually I have two USB ports on the G4, and there is an external USB hard drive located between the G4 and iMAC. I tried to transfer the files through the USB port to the USB hard drive but the transfer rate was very, very slow. Perhaps the data is getting bottled up somehow in the port?

Sandy

[Peter Mounier]

Autopano looks very cool!
Here's one that's open source in case you don't want to pay.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
I haven't tried it, so I can't tell you what I think about it.
Peter

[Ash]

http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010437.asp - go down the page...

7. PhotoStitch Updater for Mac OS X (3.2.0)

Compatibility:
Operating system(s):

Mac OS X 10.3.x, Mac OS X 10.4.x
Language(s):

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Last time I checked you don't need a Canon camera to run it, and the stitch program is basic but very good considering it's free (and made by Canon). I've used it successfully.

Here's two 35mm frames stitched:


Here's the HUGE one,

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43...ed/avebury.jpg

[Marko]

Actually I have two USB ports on the G4, and there is an external USB hard drive located between the G4 and iMAC. I tried to transfer the files through the USB port to the USB hard drive but the transfer rate was very, very slow. Perhaps the data is getting bottled up somehow in the port?

Sandy

Sandy, did you try networking the two computers? Ethernet should perform much better than any USB or even FireWire disk. Using an external disk for transfer means doubling the work - first you have to do a disk read from the G4 and disk write to the external drive, and then follow up with a disk read from external unit and disk write to your other computer. All through what is essentially the slowest I/O by default.

You could even save your scans straight to your new computer over the network, completely bypassing the G4 for anything except scanning itself. The write speed would be noticeably slower, but I would also expect it to be noticeably faster than the saving and transfer combined.

Marko

[sanking]

Sandy, did you try networking the two computers? Ethernet should perform much better than any USB or even FireWire disk. Using an external disk for transfer means doubling the work - first you have to do a disk read from the G4 and disk write to the external drive, and then follow up with a disk read from external unit and disk write to your other computer. All through what is essentially the slowest I/O by default.

You could even save your scans straight to your new computer over the network, completely bypassing the G4 for anything except scanning itself. The write speed would be noticeably slower, but I would also expect it to be noticeably faster than the saving and transfer combined.

Marko

Marko,

I have not tried a hard wire ethernet connection. However, both computers are on a wireless network and I can exchange files that way in OSX. Unfortunatley it takes a very long time to transfer very large files. I don't undestand why the tranfer takes such a long time because the wireless system is very fast in downloading things from the net.

Unfortunately I don't believe that I can use the file transfer system between OS9 and OSX so I would not be able to save the files directly from the scanner to the newer computer since I have to scan in OS9.

Sandy

[Ted Harris]

Sandy, I have tried both autopano and hugin and they are both good products.

[Peter De Smidt]

Actually I have two USB ports on the G4, and there is an external USB hard drive located between the G4 and iMAC. I tried to transfer the files through the USB port to the USB hard drive but the transfer rate was very, very slow. Perhaps the data is getting bottled up somehow in the port?

Sandy

Hi Sandy,

My card and drives are USB-2. USB-2 is about 40 times faster than USB-1. The regular usb ports on the G4 are USB-1, and I had the same experience using them that you did. The USB-2 card I bought (an IOgear) cost less than $20.