converting for autostakkert

[poider (Peter)]

I am looking at using autostakkert to process some videos but it appears that all of the videos taken on my Nikon D7000 are in Quicktime mode and it appears that autostakkert will not accept quicktime files, I have attempted to convert the files with a conversion program but it tells me that there are invalid codecs..... so is there a way to make my camera take files in a format that autostakkert will accept.... I don't even know what files it will accept.



Help Please
Peter

[raymo]

I have exactly the same problem with my Canon and Deep Sky Stacker.
The Canon produces Mov files, but DSS only accepts avi files, and every
avi file I have been able to produce has the same codec problem as yours.
I was told how to fix the problem, but it didn't work. Sorry to hijack your
thread, but maybe others will be helped by any suggestions that this
thread receives. I just used a $15 webcam instead.
raymo

[poider (Peter)]

Thanks Raymo, did you need to modify the webcam in any way?
Peter

[sharkbite]

Hey Poida...

try:

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

It's great for planetary - it crops and centres as well

this sucks in my Canon Movs and spits out something that autostakkert can read.


Should work for Nikon as well

[poider (Peter)]

Thanks shark bite I will check it out

[raymo]

Thanks Sharkbite, and no Peter, webcams work straight out of the box,
and will need a 2x barlow for planetary work.
raymo

[speach (Simon)]

try YTD or VLC both are free

[Mickoid (Michael)]

Pipp centres and converts .movs to .avis that Autostakkert can read. It may do Quicktime files as well.

[Southernastro (Andrew)]

PIPP works great, another option to look at is either BackYardEOS or BackYardNikon depending on your flavour of choice. At least with BYEOS there is a planetary mode which will record direct to avi which you can feed to AS!2 (or preprocess in PIPP to crop and centre etc), and also a 5x zoom which on my 70D puts me at native pixel scale rather than a down scaling of the full sensor. Not sure how much of that functionality is built into BYNikon.