Command Line Operations with PTGUI and the Mac's Automator

[Jeff]

I'm looking into command line operations with PTGUI Pro and was
looking for any information that will let me use PTGui Pro with
Apple's OSX Automator. I have to produce large numbers of spherical
images over a short period of time and would like to use several of
PTGui Pro features to my advantage. The shooting of the spherical
photos has been standardize and my use of PTGui is very straight
forward. Is there any information on command line operations for
PTGui Pro and where can I find them.

Thanks

[Hans]

Jeffrey what do you want to automize.
Are you talking about non PTGui operations in combination with PTgui
or is it just the stitching process.

PTgui is fully capable of producing panoramas in batch function if you
know how to set up a template with the Project settings and use the
batchbuilder.

How you do it depends a little of the Camera/lens and if you use one
single camera or several Cameras of similar type, for example a 5D and
a 5D Mark II with same lens and using the same template needs a
special function to be set in the Project settings.

Hans

[Matthew Rogers]

As PTGui Pro isn't a true Cocoa app you can't use Applescript which
means the only way to semi-script it is via recorded actions. Simply
recording actions very rarely works and is extremely buggy.

Matt

On 2 Feb 2010, at 23:31, Hans wrote:
>
> On Feb 2, 11:03 pm, Jeff <jeffreytb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking into command line operations with PTGUI Pro and was
>> looking for any information that will let me use PTGui Pro with
>> Apple's OSX Automator. I have to produce large numbers of spherical
>> images over a short period of time and would like to use several of
>> PTGui Pro features to my advantage. The shooting of the spherical
>> photos has been standardize and my use of PTGui is very straight
>> forward. Is there any information on command line operations for
>> PTGui Pro and where can I find them.
>>
>> Thanks
>

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[PTGui Support]

Hi Jeff,

Basically the only way to automate PTGui is by launching the batch
stitcher with a project file, something like this:

"/Applications/PTGui Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/PTGui Pro" -batch xxx.pts

Adding the -x switch will close the window when done.

The good thing is that the batch stitcher covers all functionality of
PTGui, including control point generation and optimizing. This can be
programmed in the Project Settings tab. Since project files are plain
text files you can easily generate your own or modify existing ones.

And also take a look at the Batch Builder, chances are it already does
what you need without any scripting.

Joost

[Mohammad]

I was actually running the batch stitcher from command line with the following command (as you mentioned):

/Applications/PTGui Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/PTGui Pro" -batch xxx.pts

It basically runs the same GUI stitcher. I was trying to check if the stitcher successfully stitched the images or failed. If I run them from command line, it looks like it doesn't return or print anything in the terminal. Is there any way to track the status programmatically? That's because, I was using an automated script in Java to run the tool.

Any idea?

[PTGui Support]

Hi Mohammad,

If you add the -x option the batch stitcher will quit when the project
has been processed. You could then wait until the process has terminated.

Joost

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[Mohammad]

I have figured out that doesn't really close it right away, until you move your mouse. That's weird.

By the way I'm using PTGui Pro 9.0 on Mac OS X Lion.

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[Ananda Shah]

HI,

 Im looking for a similar functionality which will give me the ability to apply numerical transform to each project file separately, and then batch stitch it.
Is this possible?

Thanks,
Ando

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[os...@rain-maker.com.tw]

Dear Sir,

I found the -x options seems don't work in PTGui Pro 9.

We use the PTGui command line to stitch panorama.  It worked fine in PTGui Pro 8.3.X for a long time.

After the upgrade to 9, the PTGui windows won't close automatically in spite the -x options.

The mouse or keyboard must be touched such that the windows close.  If we do nothing, the PTGui windows won't close automatically.

Can anybody solve this issue?

My OS is Mountain Lion.

Oscar Wu

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[PTGui Support]

Hi Oscar,

I will look into this.

Kind regards,

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Joost Nieuwenhuijse

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> Dear Sir,
>
>
> I found the -x options seems don't work in PTGui Pro 9.
> We use the PTGui command line to stitch panorama. It worked fine in
> PTGui Pro 8.3.X for a long time.
> After the upgrade to 9, the PTGui windows won't close automatically in
> spite the -x options.
> The mouse or keyboard must be touched such that the windows close. If
> we do nothing, the PTGui windows won't close automatically.
>
> Can anybody solve this issue?
>
> My OS is Mountain Lion.
>
>
> Oscar Wu
>
>
>

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[floz]

Any updates on this? I seem to have the same issue, Batch stitcher window not closing and my bash script hence not continuing...

[PTGui Support]

Hi Florian,

There's no Automator support (yet).

But the problem might be caused by the way you are calling the batch
stitcher. I just noticed that the -x parameter is ignored if it precedes
-batch.

On mac the best way to call the batch stitcher is by using the 'open'
command as follows:

open "/Applications/PTGui Pro.app" -n --args -batch -x "/xxx/project.pts"

..all on one line of course. Does that work for you?

Also see
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/open.1.html

Kind regards,

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[PTGui Support]

by the way, if you need to wait until the stitch finished: add the -W
parameter to 'open':

open "/Applications/PTGui Pro.app" -n -W --args -batch -x "/xxx/project.pts"

Joost

[floz]

Yep, that did the trick, thank you very much for the quick help, Joost!

On Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:03:05 PM UTC+1, Jeffrey wrote: