AutoStakkert

[Sierra Golf Mike]

Trying to get going with a video file from my Canon 600D but when I click on the file, it comes up on the centre section of the screen as 0 recordings open and nothing happens. Any ideas?

[Cornelius Varley]

Have you tried converting to .mov file to .avi format using PIPP

[Sierra Golf Mike]

10 minutes ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Have you tried converting to .mov file to .avi format using PIPP

Peter,

Didn't know about that, trying it now. PIPP looks complicated but I have guessed at the settings. Here's hoping!

[Sierra Golf Mike]

Managed to convert file, two attempts at stacking and both ended ay the MAP recombination with the error AS!2 execution halted. Out of memory. Hours wasted!

Does anybody have any ideas?

[Cornelius Varley]

Can you upload the .mov file through dropbox. ?

[Sierra Golf Mike]

9 hours ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Can you upload the .mov file through dropbox. ?

Yes, I have dropbox, do you mean upload to allow you to download and look at it?

[Sierra Golf Mike]

9 hours ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Can you upload the .mov file through dropbox. ?

I have uploaded it to Dropbox, what do you want me to do now?

[Cornelius Varley]

Post a link to the dropbox file on this thread

[Sierra Golf Mike]

Link to video file! https://www.dropbox.com/home/Photos/AstroPhotography/SGL Sharing?preview=MVI_9989.MOV hope it works?

[Sierra Golf Mike]

1 hour ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Post a link to the dropbox file on this thread

Hi Peter,

Can you access the file?

[Cornelius Varley]

18 minutes ago, Sierra Golf Mike said:

Hi Peter,

Can you access the file?

No. Dropbox says the file doesn't exist.

[Sierra Golf Mike]

8 minutes ago, Cornelius Varley said:

No. Dropbox says the file doesn't exist.

Sorry, try this https://www.dropbox.com/s/0jjygag69g9giow/MVI_9989.MOV?dl=0

[Cornelius Varley]

Downloading now

[Cornelius Varley]

The .mov converted to .avi in PIPP with no problems and I was able to stack the .avi in Autostakkert and tweaked in Registax.

 

[Sierra Golf Mike]

1 hour ago, Cornelius Varley said:

The .mov converted to .avi in PIPP with no problems and I was able to stack the .avi in Autostakkert and tweaked in Registax.

 

Thanks for that Peter, I appreciate you spending your time helping me. Could it be that my Laptop is not up to the job? It is a few years old now, that said I tried it again and as before PIPP was no problem, but this time in AutoStakkert I cut it down to use 10% of the frames and ticked the gray scale option and it worked. Is there any other settings I should be looking at? I did get a half decent image out and tried wavelets in Registax but I'm not sure what I'm doing with it. Minor tweaking in Photoshop and a bit of rotation and it doesn't look too bad. I need to find a tutorial on wavelets and one on Photoshop. Apologies, don't know how the box below got there and I can't get rid of it!

 

[Cornelius Varley]

The avi file was quite big (3gb) and my seven year old laptop struggled with Registax but seemed happier with autostakkert.

[Sierra Golf Mike]

34 minutes ago, Cornelius Varley said:

The avi file was quite big (3gb) and my seven year old laptop struggled with Registax but seemed happier with autostakkert.

My laptop must be about the same age and Registax worked but AutoStakkert didn't! Strange.

[wornish]

Hope you dont mind but I thought I would have a go with your mov file.

 

This was processed in PIPP to create AVI then again in PIPP to auto centre the moon and create TIFFS , then stacked in Autostakkert and finally enhanced  in a demo version of Astra Image.

 

 

[Sierra Golf Mike]

3 hours ago, wornish said:

Hope you dont mind but I thought I would have a go with your mov file.

 

This was processed in PIPP to create AVI then again in PIPP to auto centre the moon and create TIFFS , then stacked in Autostakkert and finally enhanced  in a demo version of Astra Image.

 

 

Dave,

No problem at all, looks good. Thanks for taking the time, at least I know I can capture the information. I just need to learn what to do with it!

[Sierra Golf Mike]

4 hours ago, wornish said:

Hope you dont mind but I thought I would have a go with your mov file.

 

This was processed in PIPP to create AVI then again in PIPP to auto centre the moon and create TIFFS , then stacked in Autostakkert and finally enhanced  in a demo version of Astra Image.

 

 

Dave,

 

how do you auto centre the moon?

[wornish]

9 hours ago, Sierra Golf Mike said:

Dave,

 

how do you auto centre the moon?

Thats one of the key features in PIPP.

In the processing tab select planetary object and Enable Object detection and select centre in frame.

 

[Sierra Golf Mike]

2 minutes ago, wornish said:

Thats one of the key features in PIPP.

In the processing tab elect planetary object and select centre in frame.

 

Dave,

Thanks! When I converted using PIPP I used the surface feature option. When it converts to TIFFs, do you have one per frame? That's a lot of TIFFs!

[wornish]

2 hours ago, Sierra Golf Mike said:

Dave,

Thanks! When I converted using PIPP I used the surface feature option. When it converts to TIFFs, do you have one per frame? That's a lot of TIFFs!

 

If you use the surface feature option then you cant do the centering.  That option is designed for really close up shots of the moon that fill most if not all the frame.

Select the Object/Planetary option to enable centering.  Make sure to test the object detection threshold before processing further and adjust threshold if it cant find the object ( Moon )

Click on the Quality Options tab and enable Quality Estimation and Quality Weighting before processing

When you convert to tiffs you do get one per frame but first you select the best 20 or so frames based on quality going beyond 50 frames doesn't give you any more detail if you select on quality.   You certainly dont want 2000 tifs !!

 

[Sierra Golf Mike]

12 minutes ago, wornish said:

 

If you use the surface feature option then you cant do the centering.  That option is designed for really close up shots of the moon that fill most if not all the frame.

Select the Object/Planetary option to enable centering.

Click on the Quality Options tab and enable Quality Estimation and Quality Weighting before processing

When you convert to tiffs you do get one per frame but first you select the best 20 or so frames based on quality going beyond 50 frames doesn't give you any more detail if you select on quality.   You certainly dont want 2000 tifs !!

 

Thanks Dave, I appreciate your help. So to select the best 20 or so frames, is it just a case of changing the Number of frames to keep to 20 from 1200?

[Sierra Golf Mike]

This is my attempt at Dave's method, I changed number or frames to keep to 30 and stacked the Tiffs in AutoStakkert, used Registax for wavelets ( still not sure what I'm meant to be doing, but tweaked it until it looked OK ) Then levels and sharpened in Photoshop, getting there I think!

 

Edit: Just noticed that there is not as much definition shown in Langrenus as there is in my attempts above! Maybe this one is too bright?