Registax

[cristian abarca]

Hi guys

I've been playing arund with registax for about two days now and it's giving me a hard time. To start off with I'm not very computer saavy. I have an avi image of the appenines and the craters that follow it. I didn't track the image so it's a moving video of about 1000 frames. I try to aling the frames but I can't seem to do it. I follow the steps that I have on a tutorial from threebuttes observatory but I just don't get it. Shoud I have taken the image only of the appenines? By the way I used a phillips toucam. The thing is that I like the images and I would like to finish the process. Can someone please advise me please.


Regards Cristian

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

You might have to get a program called "Virtual Dub" and break the avi down into smaller pieces so that there is enough in each smaller avie to stack a reasonable image of a single feature. If you were to break it down say into a dozen or more smaller avies (maybe 50 - 100 frames /avie) process them individually and then use autostitch to link them together.

[cristian abarca]

What I've done is I have gone to the frames tab on the side and I have removed the ticks of about 600 frames. The remaining 400 or so i run through the system. It seems to run OK, (It does it all by itself). When it gets to the wavelets stage it come up with a weird unrecognizable image. (as if you were looking through a keleidoscope). I downloaded the programmme you suggested. I'll give it a go and see how it works out.


regards Cristian

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

An alternative is to use your current technique but only tick about 30 - 50 frames at a time. I will be a slow process but hopefully registax will be able to align the small amount of movement over that period of 30 - 50 frames. It will mean doing 20 - 30 runs but my feeling is you will get better images. You don't need a lot of frames to make one image of the moon. An extension of that idea is to go through the 30 - 50 frames and only leave ticked the good clear ones so that you end up with only 10 - 30 frames to stack. Yep its a long slow process.

If you use Virual Dub make sure you save each section of avi under a different name so you don't loose the original

[cristian abarca]

Thanks Paul

I've been at this for a few hours now so I'll try again tomorrow. I'll try what you say and see how I go.
Regards Cristian

[cristian abarca]

Thanks Paul

I,ve been at this for a few hours so I'll try what you say tomorrow and see how I go
Regards Cristian

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I can see that Cristian your starting to stutter in sentences