Thanks Eduardo and Seb!  These are really great ideas.  I have tried
the "Apply template" idea and it works perfectly for the case of all
images being aligned.  It will certainly simplify the approach for
many projects.  The only issue I have is that the Nadir is handheld.
For this case, it will only be aligned for the original set used to
create the template.

The project I am working on is an exposure enfused pano made up of 5
shot, 1EV step brackets.  The Nadir is also a 5 shot bracket and is
handheld.  I am using a stereographic projection, so alignment of the
Nadir will be important.

Thanks,
Rick

On Sep 3, 6:27 pm, Seb Perez-D <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a similar but more automatic approach. I create the pto project
> file for one exposure, and then use a custom script to generate the
> panoramas for the different exposures. One feature of nona is very
> useful: you can pass the names of the images on the command line and
> it will use those images instead of the ones in the pto file. What the
> script does is to increase the number in the filename of the images.
>
> An alternative would be to use the "Apply template" in Hugin (in the
> File menu), which reuses the settings of another pto file. You could
> then use ptomerge
> (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Panotools-Script/bin/ptomerge) to merge
> these different exposures into one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Seb
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:16, Eduardo Perez
>
>
>
> Esteban<[email protected]> wrote:
> > I guess you are doing HDR panoramas, aren't you? Me too, but I take a
> > completely different approach: instead of passing all the images to Hugin, I
> > make a separate panorama for each exposure, and merge them afterwards; when
> > the exposures are aligned, the control points and optimizations can be
> > shared, I just change the images.
>
> > My workflow is:
>
> > * Copy the files from the first exposure to IMG1, IMG2, ..., IMGn (actually,
> > I use symbolic links in Linux, but Windows users will probably have to copy
> > the files).
> > * Open IMG1, IMG2, ..., IMGn with Hugin, create the control points,
> > optimize, ...; save the project and create a panorama named PANO1.
> > * Now copy the files from the second exposure over IMG1, IMG2, ..., IMGn;
> > execute the project again, but save the result to PANO2.
> > * Repeat for each exposure, and you will obtain a set of bracketed panoramas
> > PANO1, PANO2, ..., PANOn.
> > * Do all the HDR work.
>
> > Hope this helps.
>
> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, RueiKe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> I am looking for ways to simplify some of my more complex projects
> >> which could be 217 images connected by >10,000 control points.  In
> >> these cases I am doing 7 shot brackets for 31 images for full 360 x
> >> 180 degree pano.
>
> >> Seems like control points would be greatly simplified if I could just
> >> get hugin to assume the bracketed images were already aligned.  I have
> >> done a case where I just picked alignment points on the 4 corners of a
> >> few photos and it seemed to work fine.  Is this a reasonable
> >> approach?  Would it be possible to have an option to add a set of
> >> fixed control points for a specified set of aligned images?
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Rick- Hide quoted text -
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