Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
I have about 460 pictures of 360x180 panorama. Many overlaps at zenith. Actually I have several tries of the same panorama taken on different nights, so I have about 2000 pictures which can be used.
Is there a chance to stich them all together in APP? I'm getting warnings about downscaling and technical limits after trying to stich about 20-30 of the images.
I'm used to stich gigapixel panoramas in Autopano Giga but stiching dark skies has proven to be challenging. Transition between dark sky at zenith and light polution at horizon seems very difficult. Manipulation of such transitions gives easy visible bands between top/bottom of the images.
Is there a way in APP to solve this problem and prepare images somehow for stiching in Autopano?
Is it possible to batch save streched images with neutralized bg + saturation as tiff after registration?
Thanks for any tips!
You can try to do that, but it would require a hefty specced machine. When landscape is included, this is not something APP is made to do well yet. I would try to do it step-by-step, so smaller parts first and then try the bigger one. Before pressing the integrate button, you can always check where the panels end up after registration by choosing the "l-c-registered" preview mode on top of the preview window. This is faster than having to wait for the entire integration to finish and only then seeing it failed or succeeded. Do use the "calibrated projection" model in tab 4.
It is rather challenging though, just so you know, it may be that APP needs some more fine tuning to get that to work easier.
Looks like the 700 mpixel limit is a problem for me. My columns are 16 images high (from Canon EOS 550D) and I cannot even process one column at once. Am I doing something wrong?
How can I save images to .tiff after registration? I see there is a "save registered frames" button. It saves to .fits. Are those the calibrated images? How to convert from .fits to tiff? When I use convert on Linux I'm getting only bw images. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Mmm, it might be too big of a project in the sense you do need loads of memory for tasks like that, and I haven't seen such a huge project with APP before either, so it might not be the best of experiences yet. What happens if you chop it up even more, half a column at a time? You likely also have to make it smaller in the end by quite a bit, just to be able to process it.
@vincent-mod Is it any real file size limit for APP? Because I have 130 panels of Milky Way multiply by 2 the same cameras(in final it will be around 260 panels). Of course I will first integrate separate panels and then try to integrate into final panorama, I would like also interpolate result by 1,5-2,0(based on two cameras data). So I wonder if I will use a supercomputer I will be able to calculate it, or APP does have some kind build in limit that it won't work? I expect result of around 4-5 GigaPixels.
Thank you in advance for your answer.
@mostaszewski Hi. There is no hard coded limit in APP. But I hope that you realize that you will need a LOT of CPU, memory and disk space.
@wvreeven Thank You for your answer. Yes, I am aware of this, but I will find this computing power fot this project I really believe that it is worth it 🙂 I just was worry that there is some kind of limit directly in APP.
