Prom Animation

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Had a crack at a prom animation yesterday. Capture was 1min every 4minutes or as close as I could while dodging clouds.
I learned some things not to do next time. The main one is not to use a reference spot that is changing. It maybe easier to chose a bit brighter one as well. I think it is an activity when it is clear sky as well. Anyway here it is.

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Certainly a great effort! Well done.
Usually it's easier to register on a core feature of the prom (just around the spicules line) - takes practice, and practi....

[asimov (John)]

Nice work mate. AS2 is great for animations when it comes to planets (it auto crops a planet image dead centre) but I've yet to work out how to use it for this type of work. Before AS2 I used to crop things by eye. What are you using?

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Love that!

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Neat!

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Nice work mate. AS2 is great for animations when it comes to planets (it auto crops a planet image dead centre) but I've yet to work out how to use it for this type of work. Before AS2 I used to crop things by eye. What are you using?

I used Photoshop to do the whole lot from creating an action through to alining and batch crop and finale animation. Maybe I should split it up.
I will try some variation when time permits.

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Originally Posted by Merlin66

Certainly a great effort! Well done.
Usually it's easier to register on a core feature of the prom (just around the spicules line) - takes practice, and practi....

Yeah Ken I can see that. I chose an area that I though would remain stable to guide the whole lot, but it disappeared on me. Hence the jumping on 3 frames. I also used different bolts on the mount which screwed the alinement as well. It does not take much as you know.

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Very cool

[johnnyt123 (John)]

That's a cracker of an animation Ralph.
Well do done mate.