Brad Templeton

Further note, when I run in -cli mode, it seems to create a video from the profile as requested, but then just sits there and never terminates. You need to ^C 3 times to get out of it. It writes the file into the folder of the profile, not the folder specified with -o, though it creates an empty directory there. However, just creating from a profile with the option to change the video format is not what is desired here, as I note above. There does not seem to be a way to set the audio file, or to...

Well, I attempted to run photofilmstrip-cli, it makes the video from the profile file but it never terminates. It just sits there, and you have to hit ^c 3 times to get out. Also, it doesn't seem to take an audio file on the command line as shown above.

I have 500 songs, and I would like to automate generation of videos for them for use in YT upload. PhotoFilmStrip is a great tool, but the command line doesn't seem to offer a means to do that. Of course for each file I would have a different audio file but I see no option to set that. I could pre-load a profile but I want to vary the images used, so for example I might want to provide a list of 3 images to use (with some sort of default pan/zoom rectangles) or perhaps prepare an array of images,...

I noticed in ASTAP if I tell it to build a master-flat from a set of flats, it combines them all together. It doesn't seem to build a master flat per filter. I suppose one can go in and select out and put checkmarks on one filter and build a master flat from that, but it's a bit of slogging to do that. For dark flats, you can ignore the filter -- I often set to a narrowband as it's a layer of dark -- you just want to use the dark flats with the same duration/temperature, though since flats tend to...

I noticed in ASTAP if I tell it to build a master-flat from a set of flats, it combines them all together. It doesn't seem to build a master flat per filter. I suppose one can go in and select out and put checkmarks on one filter and build a master flat from that, but it's a bit of slogging to do that. For dark flats, you can ignore the filter, you just want to use the dark flats with the same duration/temperature, though since flats tend to use short exposures, you can probably safely just create...

I am still playing with this and don't rate my quality enough but I can suggest to friends who can give you more. One friend has gone even further -- he uses StarXterminator to remove the stars (these tools use AI networks, and I think those are good enough they don't actualy use the database.) Then, he re-renders the stars in ideal form from the databases, using the colour from his RGB frames. So he gets the real colour he recorded (to match conditions and other things) but idealized shape and position....

An old thread, but I thought I would check in on doing this on Linux. A new workflow has become common -- shoot RGB and narrowband (HSO) and then use AI tools like Starnet and StarXterminator to split the result into nebulousity in one layer and stars in another. The nebulousity comes strictly from the HSO (colour and intensity) but the stars get their colour from the RGB. They can get their intensity from the RGB, but it's often sharper to get it from the HSO, where they are not as bright. One can...