Frequently asked questions

No. The core is free. Each Pro segment (Scenic Pro, Night & Astro Pro, Drone / 3D Pro) is a one-off purchase of AUD 30, and the licence does not expire.

Yes. Each segment has its own 14-day trial, started when you choose in Settings > Licences & 14-Day Trial. Results you make during the trial are yours to keep.

Up to 4K: 4096 pixels on the long side. Larger exports, 8K and up, and PSB need a Pro segment, and any one of the three unlocks them. The gigapixel tiled TIFF is part of Scenic Pro.

The segment's tools show a licence badge again. Your projects still open and show every edit you made; only new uses of those tools, and Pro exports, need the licence.

Only to activate it, and for a short check about every 20 days. Between checks PanoRyse works offline. A licence is a signed file that PanoRyse checks on your computer, and each one is active on one computer at a time; Deactivate this computer moves it.

Soon: licences go on sale with the public release. See Download.

No. Stitching, developing, stacking and plate solving run on your computer.

Only what you ask for: map tiles, buildings and terrain heights for drone and Sky Atlas views (it asks before sending a photo's coordinates); catalogue, comet and satellite data downloads; the online name lookup in the Sky Atlas; Check for Updates; and a cloud AI provider if you choose one and press Send. Each is started by a click.

No. It has no cookies, analytics, trackers, external fonts or third-party scripts.

64-bit Windows 10 and 11.

JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, Radiance HDR, OpenEXR, FITS, PSD and PSB, and camera raw from the major makers (Canon CR2 and CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Fujifilm RAF, DNG including deflate, lossy and HDR DNGs, and many more). Nikon High Efficiency and Sigma Foveon files open as their embedded full-size preview.

Yes. It opens PTGui (.pts), Hugin (.pto) and Autopano Giga (.pano) projects, and saves them (Scenic Pro), keeping camera positions, lens values, control points, masks and crops. See Round trips.

Yes. The PanoRyse plug-in sends photos from Lightroom Classic and brings the panorama back into the catalogue as a DNG or TIFF. PSD and PSB files keep their layers in both directions.

No, but it helps. PanoRyse uses every processor core and, where available, the graphics card for warping and blending. Large sets load as smaller working copies so they fit in memory, and the export is rendered from the originals.

No. Every tool has a button. AI Assist is there if you would rather ask. Its built-in model runs on your computer; a cloud provider is used only if you add your own key and choose it.

Yes, at full resolution: darks, flats, bias and dark flats are sorted automatically and made into masters, every light is calibrated, registered on its stars and weighted, and bad frames are left out with a reason. Hundreds of frames fit in a few gigabytes of memory. Stacking needs Night & Astro Pro (or Scenic Pro). Plate solving, Auto colour (astro), the shot planner and the tracker guides are free.

The Drone / 3D views show the flight over the real place, and depth and point views of a panorama. The splat export is a point picture of the panorama on a dome, not a trained reconstruction of the scene.

Not yet. Importing video and choosing the sharpest frames as panorama tiles, and lucky imaging of the Moon and planets from video, are planned for version 4.