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Originally Posted by iceman
Great work Roger, well done!
How are you moving the camera? Did you buy some dolly gear?
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At the moment I am just using my AstroTrac mount without the wedge, so it rotates the camera at sidereal rate horizontally. I change how horizontal that plane is to get the effect I want. I have built a DIY dolly but the motor was way too fast, so currently waiting on delivery of a $15 2rpm motor from Hongkong
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Originally Posted by iceman
Also, I saw your thread about codecs etc.
How did you end up putting the sequences together?
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I still don't understand how codecs fit in to the puzzle. When I play these videos on my iPad I see it says there is no codec used. I ended up buying the Sony Creative Software video studio. In to that I import a raw uncompressed video created in VirtualDub from the individual frames. From the video studio I choose to "make video" to the specs it chooses for the iPad, and just use that. It works, I have no idea if it's a good way to do it. Up until that make video stage it is all 1080p but it ends up being 720. I am not sure yet what settings to use for 1080p and if Vimeo will accept 1080p.
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Originally Posted by Greg Bock
Thanks Roger, I really like the way these videos depict the beauty of the night sky.
I wish I had more time to do my own.
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Thanks Greg. Time will tell if I can keep up the interst due to time commitments. November has been a productive month for astronomy for me, being able to spend an excetional 15+ nights capturing data, the crunch will come soon enough
Thanks,
Roger.