Alternative to Registax ???

[raymo]

Being as I have a seemingly unfixable problem with Registax, I am
wondering if there is any alternative freeware for stacking video.
raymo

[rmuhlack]

Autostakkert is what you are after:
http://www.autostakkert.com/

[raymo]

Thank you very much indeed Richard.
raymo

[raymo]

I downloaded it, but it won't open my AVI files. Says wrong codec, whatever that means.
raymo

[Star Catcher]

Is the AVI file compressed? If so, try using uncompressed recorded avi file and it should work fine. Alternatively use (ser) file format.

Ted

[raymo]

Back again. I don't know whether my AVI files are compressed or not, nor
how to find out, and my file converter has over a hundred file types I can convert the AVIs to, but SER is not one of them. Incidentally, in case you were wondering, I am old and not very comp. literate.
raymo

[Merlin66]

Raymo,
Which camera are you using to generate the AVI's??
Have you tried using Registax 5 rather than the new V6 - I sometimes find it work better for me.

[raymo]

Hi Ken, My camera is an 1100D, and of course produces MOVs. I converted the videos to AVI and neither Registax nor Autostakkert would
open them. I realise that it was the wrong AVI [codec problem] so I want
to convert them back to MOV and start again, but can't find any software that will do that.
This is a totally separate problem from the one that Jeff and I have with
Registax. [see adjacent thread].
raymo

[Merlin66]

Raymo,
Which MOV conversion software did you use?
I'm not experienced in MOV files but this one looks promising
http://www.tucows.com/preview/606789/Convert-MOV-To-AVI
then there was
http://download.cnet.com/Free-AVI-to-MOV-Converter/3000-2194_4-75891858.html
to hopefully allow the AVI you created to be returned to a MOV.
HTH

[raymo]

Being the forgetful 80ish old fella that I am, I forgot that the videos are still in the camera; I'll just delete the others and download them again.
Thanks for your help Ken. I'll have a look at the two links.
raymo

[sharkbite]

Hi Raymo - try PiPP

https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/

it reads Canon MOV's, and produces a video that Autostakkert can understand.

It has a whole bunch of other interesting functions for planetary stuff as well.

[raymo]

Thanks for the tip Sharkbite.
raymo