From: "gaffney.mark" <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: February 3, 2008 10:49:11 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Stacking and processing...

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Mark;

On 3-Feb-08, at 12:14 AM, gaffney.mark wrote:

I tried the stacking process and got the following picture; 

20080131_035652_L.mov_60PN.tif

but lost the movie in trying to "Export" it. It will no longer  

open. Never mind I can try again

when the weather improves again!

Do you mean you selected "Export Movie..." from the "Processing" menu  

and it then ate the movie?

If so, the only way I can see that happening is that you used the  

same name as the original movie (which means you received a Warning  

dialog that your going to replace the original) and then part way  

through the export it either was cancelled or ran out of disk space.  

Since it's overwriting the original, any interruption will cause loss  

of data. Export is done via Apple's QuickTime code and all we do is  

make one call to execute it. How it operates beyond that point is in  

Apple's hands.

Milton J. Aupperle

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Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

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I think something like that happened.I do mean "Export" from the processing window. I 

remembered I`d saved the original stacked and aligned file to my external HD and have 

retrieved it. I have quite a bit of space on the Mac HD so lack of disc space is probably not 

the reason. Should I alter the name of the new file  (movie) slightly if trying in future or 

send it to a different location perhaps?The warning about the "bug" applies if the export is 

an AVI file or running at slower than 1 frame per second I understand. I`ll watch what I`m 

doing more carefully if trying again!