Before purchasing a Toucam, I used a Fuji S5600 digital camera coupled to a Pentax SLR lens (See Sky and Tele Letters Mar/Apr 2007) to produce pictures of the moon. It was very successful and by using both the camera zoom and the lense focal lenghs I was able to control the image size. At that time I was unaware of using AVI and processing it in Registax. A friend suggested using it to compare the results with the Toucam. I tried a few seconds of AVI taken with the above set up, but Registax will not accept the file.
Has any member tried a digital movie file and found away to process it in Registax?
Laser pointer
For the aged who suffer with a stiff neck when trying to sight their scope, the laser pen used as a pointer is just marvelous! I made my own adjustable holder, which only took a few seconds to line up the test star to my prismatic finder scope and I found and viewed more objects in two hours than I had seen in the previous 6 months of viewing.
Hi Dennis,
I've had the same problem. I get an error "failed to start decompression"
So i'll be interested if anyone has a solution too.
Cheers,
Duncan
Hi Dennis,
Just did some research on my little camera (Samsung Digimax S800) and it records in VGA Mpeg4 and i don't know if this is the same or compatible with AVI. But i'll try to work it all out. It's frustrating though.
Thanks Mike, it works a treat. I just left the programme settings as they were apart from putting AVI in the convert box. It worked a treat and registax worked. Thanks again.
Cheers
The Avi's taken with my Canon won't be accepted by Registax, Fail To Decompress etc.
To make them acceptable I open them up in VirtualDub then click on File, then, Save Old Format Avi.
Then process in Registax as usual.
