400 Frame Stack

[Graeme1858]

I captured a 500 frame video of the Moon the other night. I turned it into .tif files in PIPP and stacked the best 400 in AS!3.

9.5 hours is a bit over the top! Looks like there's a legitimate argument for a new laptop in the budget!

Regards

Graeme

[Greenman]

I captured a 500 frame video of the Moon the other night. I turned it into .tif files in PIPP and stacked the best 400 in AS!3.

9.5 hours is a bit over the top! Looks like there's a legitimate argument for a new laptop in the budget!





Regards

Graeme

I think you can safely assume it time for an upgrade, on my laptop it would take a few minutes, a bit longer with drizzle to be fair. Get a letter to Santa sharpish.

[yobbo89]

do you have mem buffering on or off ? i got better results on an older pc with it off, now i have 64 gb ram i leave it on ..

[Graeme1858]

Get a letter to Santa sharpish.

I fear I've missed that boat. The socks have already been wrapped up and put under the tree!

do you have mem buffering on or off ? i got better results on an older pc with it off, now i have 64 gb ram i leave it on ..

64Gb!!! Nice. My laptop is an i7 with 16Gb of RAM but to be fair it is 6 years old now! In AS3 buffering has become adaptive buffering but it doesn't seem very adaptive with a 500 frame .ser file with both the sharpen and drizzle boxes ticked! I'll try turning it off next time. The last process was the top half of the Moon. I started another run of the bottom half 6 hours ago, we're at 28% so far! It might be a plan to install AS3 on the capturing pc in the garage. That one is the motherboard, processer and RAM hand me down self build from my son, in a second hand case, it has a lot more oomph!

Regards

Graeme

[Graeme1858]

The last process was the top half of the Moon. I started another run of the bottom half 6 hours ago, we're at 28% so far!

The laptop crashed! Time to install AS!3 on the garage capturing pc!

Regards

Graeme

[Graeme1858]

Ok, so the laptop hard drive is full up! I deleted some old PIPP files, emptied the recycle bin, switched off Normalisation and Sharpening and reduced the image size from 4144 x 2816 to 800 x 600. The stack took no more than 3 minutes!

800 x 600 is no good so I did full size in the garage. That took 5 minutes with an SSD hard drive!

Right, I'm off to process my stacks!

Regards

Graeme

[JayTee]

Why did you save it as individual .tif frames in PIPP? Tif images are huge no wonder it took so long. I always output .avi from PIPP.

In fact, I did a 500 frame .avi yesterday in AS!3 with 1.5 drizzle turned on and it took 20 minutes.

JT

[Graeme1858]

I only use PIPP to debayer the video, AS3 can cope with .ser or .avi files but I read somewhere that single frames are better, not sure why! Either way it would still be 500 frames whether it was a video or a pile of single frame images.

Videos on the new camera is a new thing to me and I didn't get the debayering right anyway!

Here's the result: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=15520

Perhaps I'll have another go with .avi into AS3 as you say and see how that goes. Cheers.

Regards

Graeme