Jeff, Thank you for supporting my point. There are parts of the hugin project that I deeply love, and couldn't live without: Enfuse (via using Ingmar Bergmark's slightly outdated enfuseGUI). it is awesome, it is fabulous, and I would shower the author with money.
But my personal experience in this group has been very consistent over the year: getting blamed for not understanding, and being too stupid to use it. I classify myself as a PTgui expert, being the #5 supporter/poster in the PTgui google group, advanced user of APG, global expert for stitching 360 video (alpha tester for AVP and VS), and classifying me as the point&shoot, click&stitch person couldn't be further from the truth, but I get rolled into that group in the blink of an eye, just for saying "wouldn't it be nice if hugin would work as advertised?" Would I love to tell my customers that they can reliably try using hugin with video-stitch? yes, I would, but I can't, because as I said, I have not managed to get a single pano out of hugin, ever. so my recommendation is: "go and try hugin, if you are getting it to work, you are a better user than me", if not, buy a ptgui license, and don't worry, it works 100%. There is so much potential within hugin, but somehow it feels like there is a captain missing at the helm, and the MS Hugin is floating aimlessly in the sea of panoramas. and every time somebody mentions there is a leak in the ship, a guest on board, or a crew mates comes up and tells us "you're doing it wrong, stupid". The MS hugin has also an open door policy: if you don't like it, don't use it. As Jeff said, I will look how the MS hugin is doing in 6 months. I hope she finds her way. On Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:12:34 AM UTC-4, Jeff W wrote: > > > > David - > > On Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:39:52 AM UTC-4, GnomeNomad wrote: >> >> >> You have lots of knowledge in a narrow specialty. >> >> > And yet my grandmother, to the day she died, swore I was going to > electrocute myself when changing a lightbulb if the switch was still on. > > But in all seriousness, how many other ways are you going to find to call > people stupid and inadequate in this thread? > > The only reason I've entered this discussion at all is that following > Hugues' admittedly not-terribly-helpful post, the universal response from > the community was what we might call the Apple playbook: blame the user. > You didn't take time to get to know the software. You must not understand > what's going on. You're holding it wrong. You're not computer savvy enough. > You are just part of the point and shoot crowd that wants a one click > solution. You should be using Linux instead of Windoze. Etc. > > Joergen's point, and mine as well, is that you can have a very good > knowledge of what's going on under the hood, be very proficient > technologically and photographically, and still have a difficult time > getting good results with Hugin. It crashes far too often. It produces > outputs with black patches where image stacks should be (even in Linux). It > gets stuck in an optimization loop for 3 hours. And the like. These are not > problems with the user; they are problems with the program. > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/7052f307-48e2-48a9-af90-3844128b5e1d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
