Nice work David, you're on your way.
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Avi sett: Toucam, prime focus, 1/100, bri 100%, sat 100%, gamma 50%, gain 100%
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Gain 100% is way too high - your aim should be to have gain as low as possible. Start with gain at 0, and adjust your shutter speed until there's no bright washed out areas. Then, if you need to make it a little brighter, adjust the gain upwards. But I would never go above 30% with gain, you'll get too much noise and your image will be all grainy.
Brightness 100% - I leave this default at 50%, always. As I said above, use the shutter speed and then gain to adjust your exposure.
Gamma 50% - I leave this at 0 (or, more accurately, all the way to the left) which means "maximum contrast". The camera will work out the best setting to get max contrast, which is what you want.
Have you got a link to the original avi? I'd be happy to have a go at processing it for you if you'd like. Your effort was quite good though, playing around in registax is the best way to learn it, but I do mean to write that guide soon. (Tony, i'll answer your q's soon).
One last request, your signature is way too long. See the forum posting guidelines, it's requested to have it no more than 4 or so lines high. Can you please amend it a bit? Thanks
Oh one last thing, it's great that you're getting into the imaging, but don't forget to use the eyepiece sometimes too.. you've only just got your scope and there's some wonderful things to look at with your eyes, instead of having your head in a laptop screen and continually moving the dob as the object drifts out of the FOV. I know, I've been there
I enjoy imaging a lot but I need to keep reminding myself to give myself some eyepiece time and relax with the telescope, avoid the stresses of imaging.
So that's my advice.. you've only just got your scope so spend some time with it before you get full-on into imaging.. I suppose though if you spend long enough each night outside, you may get to do both.. just don't neglect the observing, is all i'm saying
oh and I do understand that you would want to get better at imaging to get some good planetary imaging before Jupiter gets too low.
I've rambled.. bye