Panoweaver Crashes Importing 16 bit

Hey Everyone,

I've run into another problem that I need help with as well. Perhaps others have run into this same problem.

I've been trying to import images at 16 bit instead of 8 bit. I'm still trying to understand the 8 bit and 16 bit thing but from what I understand 16 bit is higher quality. If that's the case then obviously I want the highest quality. However whenever I do this and then try stitching those images into a panorama Panoweaver crashes at around 50%.

Am I not supposed to stitch 16 bit images? If not, what is the purpose of 16 bit?

I shoot all my images in RAW and import them into Panoweaver as RAW as well. I'm also running Mac.

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skyEffect

Your 16 Bit images, what compression were they saved with? None, LZW, ZIP?

Also what pixel order and what Byte order?

I have tested Panoweaver 8.20 Build 120929 and it stitched my 9x 16 Bit Fisheye images no problem (although slowly) with Windows 7 PC.

Sorry I can't help with MAC, only offer some suggestions.

Regards, Smooth

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It looks like only with 16bit that images will be saved right.

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celavey

Quote: Originally posted by skyEffect on October-21-2012

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Am I not supposed to stitch 16 bit images? If not, what is the purpose of 16 bit?

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Please see this thread for the reason of using 16 Bit images.

Regards, Smooth

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