Re: Photostitch dictionary...
Re: Photostitch dictionary...
- Subject: Re: Photostitch dictionary...
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:43:57 -0700
On Jul 20, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Peter Bunn wrote:
Canon Photostitch doesn't seem to have a scripting dictionary, it
does not
show in the readable files.
Not being sure what you want to do with a scriptable stitcher, I would
suggest that you define what it is... do you just want to preload some
settings? If so, many stitchers have the ability to use project
templates or batch operations that get you to the same point.
If you have some magic for intelligently controlling a stitcher from a
script (depending on image content, or some external data) then your
best bet would be to look at PanoTools - this is a very flexible
library, though depending on what you want to do you may have to write
custom code for it.
I do a lot of panoramic work, and a lot of AppleScript, but there is
very little use for automation in most cases in the stitching phase as
each image set (for a pano) has different properties that need to be
accounted for, especially if you're not shooting VERY repeatably (a
rigid tripod, professional pano head, and calibrated positioning). If
you want highly automated stitching you can take a look at recent
products from Kekus.com - not AppleScriptable, but based on
cross-platform shell tools which can be scripted if necessary. XPoints
is a smart tool for automatically pairing up images and creating
control points in adjacent frames in a pano; PTMac or any PanoTools
product can then take these control points and use them to stitch the
image set; and xblend can blend the output. Used together,
XPoints+PTMac+Xblend are the basis for a potentially completely
automated pano production workflow.
QuickTimeVR Authoring Studio is also scriptable, but it's quite
unsupported (hasn't been updated since 97).
Tell me - if PhotoStitch was scriptable what would you want to do with
it?
-Roger
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