From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: April 1, 2009 12:37:33 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Astro IIDC 4.03.00 - the sequel - available.

Hi Folks;

I posted an updated version of 4.03.00:

http://www.outcastsoft.com/Astro_IIDC_Installer40300.dmg

Throw the old out and start using this new version. Changes made are listed in the "Release History" section of the "Read Me First.rtfd" document in the .dmg.

I have some typographic errors still to correct, but feature wise expect this to be the last changes I make for this release.

The two major changes are:

- Added the "Images To Aligned Movie…" menu item to the "Processing" menu. This will allow you to to take a bunch (up to 1000) frames (jpeg, tiff, bmp, pict, psd etc.), import them and then Astro IIDC will align them all against the first frame and create a cropped uncompressed ARGB32 aligned movie from them. You can use the "Export Movie.." menu item in the Processing menu to recompress them into something more web friendly else (PhotoJpeg at High quality is a good codec choice). This handles simple cases for say planetary objects and will not work reliably if the main brightest object changes shape (don't try it with lunar eclipses) or radically changes brightness.

- The universal version of Astro IIDC 4.03.00 has been compiled using the Leopard XCode 3.0 version of Apples compiler, which has more x86 options than previous versions. XCode 3.0 is still as big a resource hog and pig slow as when compiling as the Tiger 2.x compiler is, but it may generate slightly faster SSE3 x86 code.

Thanks in advance..

Milton Aupperle