The most effective way to make a scan from many photos?

[Brit]

 I just returned from a trip where I let my laptop render for one and a half days. Photoscan said upon returning that I needed another 9 hours more to complete the scan. However I didn't have nine hours since I I needed to catch a train within 3 hours.

This scan was a record for me with 380 photographs. What is the most efficient way of completing such a scan on different multiple  overnight sessions? Can I divide it into chunks? If so, is there a good video link to how to achieve this? I have ot found any so far that are easy to understand. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

[Brit]

Really. No one knows??

[rossnixon]

Your question is strange. What do you mean by make a scan? Do you mean produce an orthophoto?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Brit,

The only way that I see that would allow to keep the intermediate processing results and continue the same task later is using Network Processing feature in Professional edition:
- run server and node instances on the same computer (laptop), then submit the processing task from the application GUI,
- when you are about to stop the current processing "session", put the task on Pause via Agisoft Network Processing Monitor, wait till the node finishes the current sub-task (or just disconnect the node, if you don't care to loose some time to start the same sub-step later), save the Batches list to json file via Monitor,
- next time when you are ready to continue the processing, start the server and node again, load saved Batch list via Monitor and continue the processing.

[Brit]

Thanks.

Since the professional version is way beyond my budget, I'll stick to waiting another 6 hours for the dense cloud complete,processing. I can do the processing  when I plan be away from my laptop for the 30 hours needed to complete it.

However I had thought that dividing the processing into "chunks" might work in allowing to separate the job into two.

Although I have used this software fairly successfully for about 6 years, I never really understood what a "chunk" is or how to use it. I read the instructions and searched for videos but I haven't yet for a definition of the word, "chunk" ...or how to use them...and if they can be used to simply divide the project into two parts. Do they need to be in 2 halves, by somehow gathering all photos from one half and then the other?