From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: October 11, 2009 3:21:38 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: first light with PGR Scorpion

Hi Alan;

It's supposed to be there right before the "CCD Image Left:", unless the call to get the selected format from the Apple Menu control fails and returns an error.

That's likely could be some bug in 10.6.x and I know there were issues in early versions of 10.5.x with this. Apple is obsoleting (and breaking) older code faster than they can come up with replacement code that works :)

If you open the the movie in QuickTime player, and choose "Movie Inspector" ("Apple I" under the "Windows" menu), it will show you the bit depth of the movie as either being 8 or 16 bit.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

On 11-Oct-09, at 3:00 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi Milton,

Is this a different file than the text file saved with the movies?

I'm not finding "camera display format"in the text file:

=================== File:20091010_122731_L.mov #frames 143

Monochrome Camera = Model:'Scorpion SCOR-20SOM' SerialNumber: 0x70C775

CCD Image Left: 0

CCD Image Top: 0

CCD Image Width: 1600

CCD Image: Height 1200

Gamma: 1.00

Brightness: 583

Black Point: 0

Exposure:  0.05 ms

Sharpness Limiting On: 0

Dark Frame Subtraction On: 0

Flat Frame Correction On: 0

Invert Image On: 0

Flip Horizontal On: 0

Flip Vertical On: 0

Histogram Expand On: 0

Binning Off Monochrome

=================== File:20091010_122819_L.mov #frames 135

Monochrome Camera = Model:'Scorpion SCOR-20SOM' SerialNumbe

Hi Alan;

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Alan Friedman <alan@...> wrote:
> I'm not sure yet. This first image was made by copying two frames from
> two movies opened in QT7 and then pasting them into layers in
> Photoshop. I can't tell from my log file in AstroIIDC whether the
> movies were captured in 8bit or 16bit mode (I used both yesterday.) I
> am currently processing some prominence movies in AstroIIDC. The
> stacking status window shows me that the frames being stacked are 16
> bit... I will try a log stretch on these to see.
>
> best regards,
> Alan

The depth and all the other settings used are stored in the Session Log File, which is created when you grab a frame or record a movie.

Check for the field "Camera Display Format" in the log file. It either says 8bit or 16bit and indicates what depth frame was grabbed or the movie was recorded at.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle