file size

[Hightower]

Last night i captured some webcam footage for the first time. When i got home i tried to stack it, but it kept hanging. It turned out each of my avis were 4gb plus, and i think this may be why.

I was capturing 4mins at 10fps for jupiter, at the highest resolution the xbox cam will do. How big is your footage normally and what should i change for next time?

Thanks

[Cornelius Varley]

4 minutes is too long for Jupiter. You should be recording for no longer than about 90 seconds. More than that and you will start to see rotation of the planet. Try cutting the A I down a bit using Virtualdub.

Peter

[Radders]

Sorry to hijack the thread. Hi Peter, i have a question. When I went to process my Jupiter videos taken last week AVIstack wouldn't load them. Do you know why?

Radders.

[Hightower]

Is 10FPS ok, and should I really be using the highest res or should I set that to 640?

What about length of footage for other things such as the moon, bright star etc? Is 90 seconds ok for them all?

[Cornelius Varley]

Sorry to hijack the thread. Hi Peter, i have a question. When I went to process my Jupiter videos taken last week AVIstack wouldn't load them. Do you know why?

Radders.

Avistack can be fussy about which codec was used. If the video plays in media player or loads into registax you could try running it through virtual dub and saving the file as an old format AVI.

Peter

[Cornelius Varley]

Is 10FPS ok, and should I really be using the highest res or should I set that to 640?

What about length of footage for other things such as the moon, bright star etc? Is 90 seconds ok for them all?

I don't know what the Max fps is without compression is for the Xbox. 10fps should be OK. For the other planets and the moon you can shoot longer if you wish.

Peter

[Hightower]

I don't know what the Max fps is without compression is for the Xbox. 10fps should be OK. For the other planets and the moon you can shoot longer if you wish.

Peter

But the longer I shoot the larger the video file is. I had 90 seconds of the moon and that file was 1.5gb - is this normal, or do I have something set up wrong?

Thanks

[Ant]

I try not to let my AVI's go over 1gb.

From what I can remember the rotation of Jupiter starts showing up in captures over around 40 seconds. So best to limit the AVI's to 40 seconds.

Cheers

Ant

[Hightower]

Cheers guys. Gonna try and play with some settings when the cloud next clears.

So what's the best settings to have for anything that isn't a planet i.e. what duration, fps, etc etc

[badgers]

Use castrator on the avis

It'll crop out the planet and make a new much smaller AVI that's easier to stack.

[Hightower]

Use castrator on the avis

It'll crop out the planet and make a new much smaller AVI that's easier to stack.

Thanks, will give that a go tonight if the weather stays clear.