Excellent images Greg, especially Saturn, you can make out the Cassini Division right to the front of the rings, and even a hint of the polar hexagon! Jupiter is possibly a bit over-cooked, but there's certainly lots of detail there.
Thanks for posting your logfile, I'll just comment on a few items I noticed that stand out.
FireCapture v2.7 01 BETA Settings
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Duration=161.495s <---- could increase to 180 (300 for Saturn)
Debayer=yes <---- for best performance and higher fps, record the RAW footage (ie not debayered), and debayer in AS!3. Recording the debayered video also makes your video file 3x larger as you are recording 3 colours, not 1
ROI=1024x768 <---- Reduce the ROI size, unless you are interested in capturing the moons, all you are recording is black space and this reduces your capture rate
FPS (avg.)=88
Shutter=4.578ms <---- With this shutter speed, the maximum fps possible is 218, but you are capturing at 88, due to the larger ROI and recording the colour information.
Gain=278 (46%)
Gamma=41 <---- Record with gamma OFF, you can add this later
HighSpeed=off <---- Record with HighSpeed ON
USBTraffic=100 <---- If you start losing frames, try a slightly lower value for better results, I set it to 70
WBlue=90 <---- I believe this should be closer to 86
WRed=50 <---- I believe this should be closer to 69
A lot of the locations for these settings are in this post, but it was for ver 2.6 rather than 2.7, but most things are in a similar spot
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=185290
Debayering in AS!3 is the best way to take these images - yes, it looks terrible on the screen while recording, blocky and monochrome, but it's the best way to do it.
Reducing the ROI during recording is also highly recommended. Yes, you might have to make slight corrections during capture to keep the planet in the FOV, but the file sizes are smaller and the frame rate can be higher. Firecapture shows you a continuous update on how many frames per second it is recording, both while recording and when observing. Try to match the shutter speed to the fps value indicated, if you set the shutter speed to 5ms, then the fps rate should be 200. Set it to 10ms then you should see 100fps. This way you are not "wasting light" by having to increase the gain to get the histogram level up, but not getting the frame rate to match.
The USBTraffic value is a strange one, ZWO cameras tend to like to hog all the resources, so if you let it have 100% of them then it can overflow the USB buffer and you lose frames. Setting a value too low reduces the fps value. I find a value of 70 is about right for my computer, ymmv.
Do not record with the Gamma value on, it may make the image look better on the screen, but you can make all those corrections afterward on the computer. Record as pure a video stream as possible.
Based on previous result from the ASI462MC, I reckon the Wred and Wblue values should be set at 69 and 86 respectively. This was from another CN post which is shown below.
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/7...#entry10376048
With a few little tweaks and a bit more practice, your images will improve even further, and you are already significantly ahead of where you were
Hope this helps, Andrew