Help with Reg4 needed - non-optimization of an alignment point

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Has anyone come across this problem and what to do about it?

This is a very frustrating problem, especially if I'm processing 2500 bmps. I load my bmps and align them using multiple points. (It doesn't seem to matter how many points as long as it is more than one.) The align process chugs away happily until completed. I select how many images I want using the slider and click the Limit button. I then create a reference frame of 50 frames. Frames are optimized, stacked and then sharpened in wavelets. I click Continue. I come back to the optimize page and select Optimise and the program does it's business. It optimizes its way through all the points.

I then go to the stack page and select the percentage of frames I want to stack and click Stack. Up pops a message that there are no frames to stack. It appears that the first alignment point doesn't contain any frames! I have noticed at times that after Optimizing the graph for the first alignment point on the optimizing page is blank after optimizing the 1st point. Yes the first point does get optimized. I've watched the process through a few times.

If on getting the message that there are no frames to stack, I go back and reoptimize the whole lot, I then have all the points and frames to stack. Now normally I'm a pretty calm sort of person, but after having to do this for the 3rd time with 5 alignment points on 2500 bmps I'm starting to get a bit antsy.

Has anyone else experienced this and work out a way around it.

btw deselecting the point from the alignment list to remove it from the stack list on the Stack page doesn't help get around the problem and let me stack the remaining alignment points.

bbtw its not just with stacks of 2500, it doesn't seem to make any difference if it's 100 frames or 2000 frames.

[Dennis]

Have you tried the "Optimise and Stack" button rather than just the "Optimise" button and then go to the "Stack" page?

Cheers

Dennis

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

It probably will work that way Dennis, but if I click Optimise and Stack it will stack all the images and I only want to select a few. When I Limit the images to be optimized initially, I select a good 80% of them and then use the Stack page to winnow out the losers after optimizing. It also allows me to muck around with which alignment points I want to use If I think it's looking a bit odd in the stack page.