From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: March 8, 2009 1:33:14 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Requested feature for next version

Hi Dave,

Even if the frames in the the reference movie were organized by timeline, they would likely jump around a little from drift in alignment and atmospheric turbulence. Aligning the images and preparing the movie as an animated GIF in Photoshop would be one way to go.

good luck! ...all clouds here in Buffalo,

Alan

On Mar 8, 2009, at 12:40 PM, doodlebun wrote:

All is well here on the day of the opposition of Saturn with good seeing and clear skies predicted. What I am planning on doing is to record a high quality luminance movie of Saturn at f/25 every minute until the cows come home.

The idea is to finally make the effort to combine the final processed tiff images into a monochrome movie. To do this I will need to bring the final Astro IIDC processed tiffs into Photoshop and carefully register each frame and then export one by one the final frame into a folder for later inport into Quicktime or back into Astro IIDC. I have noticed that version 4.02.00 allows the user to select the best frames and export a movie with the deleted frames removed. But the planet jumps all over the place because no registration or alignment has occurred. If an additional alignment step was performed before movie construction then the exported movie would be perfect, showing the rotation desired.

If I had 50 captured movies to start, then I could create 50 processed and optimized tiffs. Those tiffs could be made into a movie using the IMAGES TO RGB48 MOVIE function. The movie produced has no registration of images unfortunately.

Is there a workaround for this, am I overlooking something, or is this a feature under consideration for the next upgrade?

Gail and Dave Bleser