Mac vs PC weirdness
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Thanks Chuck.
Just to make it clear, as it turned out in this topic, the panorama created and textured on Mac, didn't show any images on Win.
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Here is the link to the original file: link
You can access the file as well as the individual jpegs.
I am dying to hear Support's view on this.
Thanks.
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Now I'm pretty sure that in this topic the problem was/is the same.
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Thanks, Gaeius, for staying on top of this.
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Hi Chuck,
I think I may know what is going on with this issue. I believe your images have an exif (common to digital cameras) format - true? If so, we have finally isolated a bug with exif formatted images. Those images can display correctly on the Mac but fail to display on the PC. Unfortunately, the only workaround that I have found is to save the images with a different format. We are working on this issue though.
Does that help?
Best regards,
Tricia
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Thank you for the update, Tricia; it is great to know that you guys are investigating.
You are absolutely correct that the images have exif data. They were originally shot in RAW format from a Canon XTI. I then stitched all of the RAW images into a single panorama, used photoshop to cut the panorama into pieces smaller than 1024 x 1024 and saved the pieces out as jpgs.
I was under the impression that all formats saved in Photoshop contain exif data. Is that not correct? Or do you know of a way to strip the exif data out save a clean version of the image?
Thanks again for the help and I look forward to figuring out a good workaround.
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Hi Tricia and Chuck,
Could it be done in a way that you create a mask or selection or whatever in PS and then copy it and paste it into a new file of the same size and save that without the exif data?
(I'm just wonderind - I don't use PS but Corel PhotoPaint which is similar but not the same.)
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I didn't even know you could save without the exif data. I am going to work a couple of tests today, if I have some extra time.
The mother of all computers is scheduled to arrive tomorrow (pant pant) so I need to get my act together today for the migration.
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What machine will that be?
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3.2 ghz 8 core mac pro. Starting out with 10 gig ram (expandable to 32!) and 2 HDD, one 500 and one 1T (expandable to 4 1T). IT is also coming with the Nvida 8800 GT graphics card (and the computer supports 2 graphics cards!) and a 22' and a 19" monitor.
I have been waiting 5 weeks for this bad boy to ship and it is scheduled to arrive today! I am toying with the idea of driving around looking for the Fedex truck (small town here) and getting it early.
I have benchmarked a bunch of animation exports, both SU and raytraced, so I will have a good idea how much faster the new one is from the Macbook Pro I have been using.
I am also looking forward to doing some top flight video editing to further polish my animations. Can anyone say "flicker filter"?
I am having a hard time concentrating (for the last week, really
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