Request flat or panned image stitching mode

[Jeffry Johnston]

Sometimes in video documentaries or animation an image is too large to fit all at once, so the view is panned across. It's not a perspective move, everything is flat. The frames can be stitched manually using GIMP, but often there are slight defects, because pixels don't always match up to the panning speed 1:1.

I tried to use Hugin to stitch, but it seems to be very camera-centric. I could not figure out how to disable the perspective transformations or the exposure changes. I also had to manually play around in the crop window, because the auto-centering stuff just didn't work right. Finally, it failed, telling me that a seam would be visible, and I couldn't figure out how to override and force the output.

I request a wizard for stitching flat images, where all it does is figure out the sub-pixel position of each image and then outputs the entire uncropped image (no cropping, rotation, exposure, etc).

I could also see this wizard being useful if I wanted to scan in something larger than my flatbed scanner and stitch it together into a single image.

If all of this is already possible, I request documentation on how to do it.

[tmodes (tmodes)]

First, this request would needed to rewrite big parts of the program new.

Second, this is already possible and documented here http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml
Derived for this tutorial there is also an user-defined assistant available (Edit>user defined assistant>scanned images).