Moon Processing from Video Capture AVI (using PiPP, Autostakkert!, and Registax6)

all right guys this is brendo st all right now i'm taking an avi clip of the moon using my asi 120 and my zwo 60 millimeter scope it's not a very big scope there's a 3x barlow in there right now and uh i mean we get pretty close to it um i should have set a limit to this my apologies so basically i want to take a video of about a thousand frames now it's it's still laid out so this is not poor aligned any means necessary it's as close as i can get it i know polaris is that way but you can tell it's still drifting significantly right now i'm trying to move it where it's not gonna drift too far off and we can get a corner of this i'm gonna get two shots here i'm gonna switch out with a different barlow in a second but i'm just trying to get a thousand frames here and hit a video and this is using the asi cap uh software uh it automatically installs when you um get a zwl camera i'm pretty sure uh as you can see it is drifting slowly but surely but i think we should be able to finish before it clips off the edge of that and when we go into the stacking process we'll stack the images pretty quick unfortunately we're losing a little bit of it it's drifting a little too fast well that's my fault i'm impatient and still too light out to really get a good shot the tracker i'm using as a uptron 3200 smart eq pro not the greatest mount but it does well and like i said you definitely could use a bigger telescope this is just what i have laying around so this video is done taking here and you can tell it's drifted quite a bit you can do this with pictures as well but i find it easier to go through the frames on a video it's much faster and i set my gain and everything all automotive automatically uh so i'm gonna take this 3x barlow out because you're getting up close but i want to try to get a wide shot of everything so i'm going to switch out and see what we can do all right guys this time you can see i have the moon centered in is in focus as well as i can get it i've got it at 3 000 frames right now and it's going through so i believe the moon will stay in frame for that whole thing so i won't have to uh adjust too much and like i said i just took the barlow out i might be able to it's getting starting to get dark enough where i might be able to see polaris and get this properly aligned sure makes it easier for uh this kind of stuff at least but i mean this is just a sunset so i don't see anything yet now with my eyes at least but let it finish here and then i'm gonna go upstairs with the video clips that i have and we'll uh process them through pip and auto stacker and i'll finish off in regis stacks i believe same process as i do for stills but the video i feel like at least this camera it's a monochrome camera i feel like it gives you way more detail getting closer to the moon than i would have gotten with my dslr alrighty guys i'm on my computer now and uh before you ask yes the background is a picture i took with my dslr uh i might do a video later on how i do uh lightning shots but uh that's for a different day because there's no thunderstorms around here that frequent so that was a lucky lucky day so i have my videos on here that i have dragged over from my laptop um these are going to be obviously your video clip that you took it's an avi file um i'm gonna pick which one we're gonna do here i think i'll do this one i believe because this looks like it was steady in frame i lost a little bit at the end there but i think we can still recover most of that let me see if there's another one what's going on what was this one okay that was all right so we're gonna do that one i'm gonna do one of those big ones and then a couple of these were that one's a little a little dark we'll see what happens though but first we're gonna do that up close shot so there was a second one we did there um i have not done this in a while so bear with me as i kind of remember how to do this crap but for the most part i remember we're doing uh we gotta do our input file we're gonna add our image files which in this case it's right on my desktop and it is going to be an avi file the second one here so we got that that's what we got so far we are doing solar close up now if i remember correctly this is we'll get to that i think so for input options let's see if i remember changing anything here i'm gonna leave all this the same i'm so i record i recorded with a monochrome camera already um i should not need to do anything that should automatically detect that it was monochrome uh for processing options okay convert color i'm just gonna check that because we don't need to because it's already black and white uh this one i like to do that um i'll leave it at 75 percent i think that's the option and then okay anchor feature box so this is um where it's gonna kind of align every image so let's say we want to anchor right there so when it goes to go through all the frames there's a thousand frames gonna go through it's gonna make sure that spot that box is in every every frame so you don't it'll throw out the frames that are uh obviously not good we don't want to resize we're gonna leave them the same i feel like i set black point to zero before can't remember but i'm gonna click it anyway we'll see what happens quality options this is a good one i like to drop a certain percentage of frames i like to keep so we're doing a thousand frames here we're not gonna process all the frames so let's say fifty percent of those frames the best ones will keep it's gonna drop fifty percent of the bad ones because not everything's perfect in in our world here nothing in animation options the output we're output in an avi it's going to output um i think that is all in here so as long as all my settings are right we'll go to start processing just make sure i feel like i'm missing something but i don't know for sure i've had this happen before there was something i had to change i can't remember it maybe it wasn't in this it might have been in the next step which would have been auto stacker so start processing this usually goes pretty quick when you're dealing with avi is as opposed to a singular frames from like a camera but that's because this is recording in 1280 by 960. so it's a really small frame when i was taking with a dslr i'm taking a what 6 000 by 4 000 frame image or however 20 megapixel um images i don't run the numbers but it takes a lot longer when you do a thousand frames of a dslr image as opposed to just a video here so this is done this is going to be you know minus this right now minimize it it should have in here a little pip file with our frames they should all kind of look like this kind of wiggling around like that but fairly staying in the same spot if there's any frames that look off or um like a half frame or something like looks like everything's good so we're gonna keep that so next step i have not ran this yet this is auto stacker this is where we're going to do all our stacking we're going to open that file we just made now you there's other ways to do this this is just the way i'm familiarize myself with um doing this processing this is my workflow for moon images and videos uh there's probably way better ways than this trust me that this is this is a process but all right so this is our moon yup that is a moon all right uh we're gonna leave this stuff so i'm gonna go and analyze the image uh that gets one part of the way frames percentage of stack um so we already cut the stack it or cut the frames in half to 500 frames so we're going from thousand to 500 if you wanted to go further with that you could do it here and because we already did that um let's just say i'm going to stack 80 of the frames this drizzle especially when dealing with my specific camera which is asi 120 the frame size is so small the 1280 by 900 whatever i like to do a 3.0 drizzle 3d 3x drizzle this will increase the image size by three times i don't know exactly what it does completely but i just know it looks better when i do it like this at first i won't but when we get to the actual processing of the image and ridgestacks it will so um we're not sharpening the image we will do that ourselves but we do need to place a grid so let's do 24 and see what it looks like oh okay all right um we may want to decrease brightness or no do i want to increase brightness brightness would be because i want to get more of the image because we're seeing we're cutting off a little bit here i got a close edge i kinda gotta remember how to do this there we go that's better because i want the whole whole image this top here i might lose that which is unfortunate but it is what it is so now i got my frame set here um it doesn't really matter what number you do here and i really don't think it does but this is how it's gonna adjust to um stack the images so i'm going ahead and stack actually i think there was one thing i wanted to check before i did this and i did not but we'll uh see what it does here let's stack the image kind of something in one of these settings i think it's um a double stack so what it does it'll go through and then i'll go through again just to make sure everything is aligned properly and all this is doing right here is actually aligning all the images so you got 500 frames that you have left and it's now perfectly aligning those frames on top of each other to create a single stacked image um in our case we're doing 80 of 500 whatever that number equates to well i'm not doing math in my head i know it's an easy number mock me as much as you want i'm not not mathing right now but uh you know what i think it's 400 or something i don't know somewhere around there but uh right now it's sticking the images we're gonna let this go a second yeah it's 400 isn't it i'm not actually doing the math i'm just quick thinking which is very slow obviously now depending on your computer this may take a minute or two all right so i didn't do the thing i wanted to which would be under advanced in his brute force alignment pretty sure it was brute force alignment or was a setting somewhere in here where it double stack reference maybe i don't remember but one is fine it's not going to kill the image so we're done here now we're going to go into registex all these programs that i'm using pip registax6 auto stacker they're all free on the internet you just gotta go google search each one and find them um very useful pro especially registex i i was kind of on the fence about using it originally until i kind of got used to using the wavelets and understood how how amazing it really is for planetary imaging um deep spot deep sky stuff i've never tried to use it for i have my own a separate workflow for all of that there we go it always tapes on a tiff at the end here and we're not going to stretch any levels or anything here all i want to do is get into the wavelets which here we are so this is our stacked image as you can tell it looks a little a little blurry but don't worry because this is where registex comes in yeah click an area because it creates like a box and we want to do gaussian so i only use about three or four of these i don't do the all the all the layers here but i'm gonna not that i'm gonna increase the sharpening for this one uh let's say 250 250 and i go fairly high on the first round so let me increase a little bit more we'll do 300. so you can already see yeah there's an image there it's sharpening up the image but you got all this just noise that's making and that's where you kind of click this a few times i like to go to 35 i feel like that gets most of that junk out of there and then of course i'll go with my second one and the second one is going to be significantly lower on the sharpening maybe 200 i'll add a little bit of the noise as well but not as much and we'll raise that up as well and you can see the image is getting just a little bit clearer and then last one we'll do like 150. i'll add a little bit denoise and once again it's all up to your your eye of how far you want to go but like from that to that is pretty significant i'm sure there's more i can do in here but if you go too far on the d noise you're gonna start to blur out your your sharpening and you don't want to go too far so i have to keep it at 35. i go past 35 you start to see those little checker marks coming back in with your you know i don't want those and then not really anything's going to happen with with that i'll just slide it up so this is kind of i'm happy with this we'll hit do all at the top here it's going to go through the whole image it's going to do everything with that specific little filter but we are done no we are not done because i take it from here i go right into photoshop with it and i don't do anything crazy in photoshop i just want to give it a little extra kick um i'm sure you can do all the stuff i do in photoshop in registex i just don't know how to do it and i don't feel like trying to learn how to do it right now because i like my my way of doing things we're gonna have to crop the bottom off because obviously part of the image was not um there but let's save our image because we have this we don't want so we want to save it as a tiff make sure you save it as tiff just overwrite the original one it doesn't really matter all right registex done photoshop next okay open going to desktop vsa cap i'll pull open our drizzled image here i think this is it nice and sharp yep okay so well you can tell nice and detailed this is where i'm gonna do a quick crop we're gonna get rid of that crap crappy crop all right we're going to [Music] what i usually do is go right in the filter go to camera raw filter i spend most of my time on all my deep sky objects all everything i do is in camera filters my favorite place to be because this is where i can like adjust things like a little contrast maybe not like this is where i can bring up the highlights drop them down a little bit maybe it's too bright in that area you may want to add a little bit of light you know this is where all that all that stuff is done maybe i want to bring the highlights down a little bit but i wanted to have a little bit of light there because you know the sun's kind of flexing reflecting in that area the most um clarity is a nice one because that really brings out a lot of those those hidden details and those shadows than the blacks there i like to dehaze my image and really it's it's up to you and your preference of your image what you like to see um i'm pretty simple i like to go in here now you can sharpen even further if you wanted to like you crank this up like i don't really notice if you notice anything on so yeah it does a little bit it does a little bit of sharpening um but i also you can still see when you close all those little lines so if you really want to try to fade those out a little bit add a little bit of luminance noise reduction so i really don't think the sharpening does anything in that case if you're adding noise reduction anyway um maybe a little bit and and that's look what we came from and look at what we got now so you get a significant image from just taking a little video with your and mind you that camera i'm using for taking this image and that that scope i'm using it's not meant for this whatsoever that is a uh asi 120 mm the super that's meant for a guide scope that that actual scope is a guide scope it's meant for guiding your astrophotography rig and i just happened the six the sixty millimeters ew scope that's attached is a little too deep for my actual camera i need to get the 30 millimeter instead of the 60. but you throw a barlow in there like like this image says using a 2x barlow and you get pretty good detail so not bad for for what it is so i'm gonna finish this image up and that's that's it that's i'm happy with that so i'm gonna post it on facebook or something but uh that's that's it that's my process of going through and kind of giving you my view of how to take an avi video with a guide scope camera or i you probably use a dslr and do an avi from that i think it records mp4 instead i'm not sure i've never really done it with the dslr i've always used this for video but i've done still frames for my dslr which i have another video on my channel for that but that's it that's how to process your moon and get some amazing detail just with a little tiny guide scope camera so thanks for watching guys i'll create more videos in the future i got a whole bunch of stuff i want to do soon um just dealing with a lot of stuff and personal life so i haven't really made a lot of videos um i definitely i want to make a video on that lightning image that i got there it's one of my favorite images and i'd love to show you guys how i how i get those so i'll do a video on next thunderstorm that i i got i'll show you how i set my dslr for that but thanks again for watching and i'll talk to you guys later

Channel: BrendoST

Views: 2,335

Keywords: ZWO, ASI, ZWO ASI 120mm-s, Telescope, Guidescope, Astrophotography, Planetary Images, Moon, Luna, Waxing Crescent, PiPP, Autostakkert, registax, photoshop, Image Processing, How to, Guide, Moon Details, Lunar Surface, Photography, Image, Photo, Video

Id: w26phP5z25o

Length: 24min 10sec (1450 seconds)

Published: Sun May 16 2021