K3CCD Tools Question

[Radar]

Hi Guys,

I just took 500 shots of Saturn. I think I did one frame per second.

I saved the capture file. I have 185 meg of data.

When I rebooted my laptop and tried to open this file in K3CCD Tools, it won't open. It says not a valid win32 file.

I'm confident that the data is all there, just not sure how to get this file to work so that I can process it.

Any ideas welcome.

Thanks

Ray

[Draig]

Hi Radar,

Not to sure I can help as I have never used k3ccd.

Is all of your captures in one file or in a data folder?

Is it the K3ccd program that is not working? Or the opening of your data folder/data file?

CHeers Colin

[Radar]

Hi Col,

All of my images are in one big file. I can use a music / dvd player to play the frames through. So I know it's all there. But I'm not sure why K3CCD Tools doesn't want to open it, after all, it made the file. I might reinstall the software and see what I can come up with.

Does anyone know another program that can process K3CCD Tools video sequences?

Thanks

Ray

[beren]

Gday Ray not sure whats happening ......have you tired Registax, its a popular free/softwareware http://www.astronomie.be/registax/ for AVI/video sequences . Shev i think wrote a great article of the latest version in Sky and Space last edition.

[Radar]

Hi Beren,

I have registax 3.0.1.23.

When I goto "load file", it looks for either a "registax project file" or a "registax frame list". So nothing appears in the open box.

Do you know what the file extensions are for a registax frame list? I'll change the extension and see if that works.

Cheers

Ray

[Draig]

Hi Ray,

I have Registax V4.0 on my system and it looks for AVI files.

Make a copy of your files before you go change files extensions though.

CHeers Colin

[Radar]

Okay, I will try and update the version of registax I am using.

Thanks

Ray

[beren]

Ray try Virtual Dub and convert your AVI into BMPs, without going into to much detail check this tutorial (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=63,306,0,0,1,0) it explains what to do....take the time to go through it , you'll be glad you did :thumbsupmate:

[Radar]

Thanks Beren.

I have downloaded all those programs. I'm up to the part for PPM Centre. I am using the other program (PCFE) that is recommended so that I don't have to use command lines.

How do I use this program with the other the program so that it opens up a window where I can centre the planet please?

At the moment, I'm getting this window -

372

I think I'm missing a step.

[beren]

Ray if you hit "add folders" a pop window should appear showing c; drive plus the plantery imaging folder , click on that then close the window then hit process and your away

[Radar]

Thanks for that Beren. I'll try again this evening.