I used to use Hugin yonks back with no issues, but it seems that it doesnt like Windows 7 64 bit. Im curious if anyone else uses the program in 64bit and on W7, and have got it working? It seems to have issues with autopano sift.

Ages ago I installed it on a computer, ran straight out the box, recently I installed and needed to download extra files for the alignment

tried running it compatibility mode?

Ive got it running on w7 32bit, I think it was just one file required.

Just had a look in mine, and seems to be linked to "autopano-sift-c.exe" I think I just downloaded that and copied to the right folder.

sometimes AutoPano-SIFT is fantastic, sometimes it makes a right hash of things.

When it fails, try going into the manual control point panel, ordering the control points by missmatch distance and deleting the worst few. Its often obvious that one or two of the worst fits are actually total rubbish and not the same point in the picture at all.

This is one of the things I like about Hugin, (these days) its fully automatic when you ask it to be, but when the automatics mess up you can take manual control as much or as little as you need to. Bit like a DSLR really

For the "planet" picture I put in to the last comp, I think it was about 14 photos and had to manually add all points on all photos, as there was so much grass and leaves it didnt really have a chance, but didnt take too long and came our well once done. Photoshop just appeared to lock up and didnt really tell me what it was doing.