PCFE woes

[NightCal]

I've been using the superb PCFE program for a couple of years now and I'm mighty impressed. Unfortunately I've hit a snag which I hope someone can help me with.

I've taken a series of 12 x 1600-frame AVIs of Saturn which I want to put through Registax. I've split them into just over 19,000 bmp frames and put them through PCFE for sorting and cropping prior to processing them in Registax. Now here is my problem - PCFE only produced an output of 10,000 frames.

1) Is this a maximum limit on the program?

2) If the answer to 1) is yes,
(a) Is this 10,000 frames the best 10,000 frames out of the 19,000 + original frames, or is it
(b) a sorted set of the first 10,000 frames, or is it
(c) the first 10,000 frames, unsorted?

3) Is there a work around so that I can produce output of all 19,000 + frames? Do you know if the DOS version (ppmcentre) has this limitation?

Thanks

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I can't answer your questions Michael except to say that the Original program that PCFE was based on, ppmcentre, has been superceded by Ninox. If you do a search you will find a link to Anthony's (bird) site with details that may help.

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi Michael

PCFE is just a front-end : it still uses ppmcentre/ninox as it's backend, so if there's a limitation, it'll be in both.

Have you tried downloading the latest version (ninox)? You can still use it with PCFE, just re-name it to ppmcentre and put it in the PCFE directory.

I'll ping Anthony and see if there's a limitation. If there is, you can probably work around it by having them in separate directories and processing them independantly - but that doesn't help you if you want the best frames out of all 19,000!

btw that's a lot of frames!

[NightCal]

Anthony (the author of ppmcentre) has been in touch and has told me there is a 10,000 frame limit, but that he'll see if he can raise it.

Yes, 19,000 frames is a lot of frames. It's an experiment to see how much of a difference stacking a huge number of frames will have on my capture of Saturn.