Calibration crash

[Starshoot]

Hi,

i've big problems with image calibration and my EOS 7D raws

I have to calibrate each frame separately, cause when I try on several files, I'm always getting errors

Here's an example:

Calibration of 9 target frames:
* Using 8 worker threads

Calibrating target frame 1 of 9
Loading target frame:
H:/Astro/27 04 11 RC/NGC 6888 Le croissant Brutes/IMG_0035.CR2
Timestamp: Wed Apr 27 04:06:04 2011
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
ISO speed: 1600
Shutter: 210.0 sec
Aperture: f/1.$
Focal length: 50.0 mm
Embedded ICC profile: no
Number of raw images: 1
Thumb size:  5184 x 3456
Full size:   5360 x 3516
Image size:  5202 x 3465
Output size: 5202 x 3465
Raw colors: 3
Filter pattern: RGGBRGGBRGGBRGGB
Daylight multipliers: 2.184862 0.935831 1.256838
Camera multipliers: 1713.000000 1024.000000 1924.000000 1024.000000

Invoking: dcraw -D -k 0 -t 0 -o 0 -4
Decoding Canon EOS 7D file (5202x3465 pixels, ISO=1600, Exposure=210.00s): 100%
Loading raw image: 100%

Calibrating target frame 2 of 9
Loading target frame:
H:/Astro/27 04 11 RC/NGC 6888 Le croissant Brutes/IMG_0037.CR2
Timestamp: Wed Apr 27 04:13:18 2011
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
ISO speed: 1600
Shutter: 210.0 sec
Aperture: f/1.$
Focal length: 50.0 mm
Embedded ICC profile: no
Number of raw images: 1
Thumb size:  5184 x 3456
Full size:   5360 x 3516
Image size:  5202 x 3465
Output size: 5202 x 3465
Raw colors: 3
Filter pattern: RGGBRGGBRGGBRGGB
Daylight multipliers: 2.184862 0.935831 1.256838
Camera multipliers: 1736.000000 1024.000000 1893.000000 1024.000000

Invoking: dcraw -D -k 0 -t 0 -o 0 -4
Decoding Canon EOS 7D file (5202x3465 pixels, ISO=1600, Exposure=210.00s): 100%
Loading raw image: 100%

Calibrating target frame 3 of 9
Loading target frame:
H:/Astro/27 04 11 RC/NGC 6888 Le croissant Brutes/IMG_0038.CR2
Timestamp: Wed Apr 27 04:16:55 2011
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
ISO speed: 1600
Shutter: 210.0 sec
Aperture: f/1.$
Focal length: 50.0 mm
Embedded ICC profile: no
Number of raw images: 1
Thumb size:  5184 x 3456
Full size:   5360 x 3516
Image size:  5202 x 3465
Output size: 5202 x 3465
Raw colors: 3
Filter pattern: RGGBRGGBRGGBRGGB
Daylight multipliers: 2.184862 0.935831 1.256838
Camera multipliers: 1751.000000 1024.000000 1883.000000 1024.000000

Invoking: dcraw -D -k 0 -t 0 -o 0 -4
Decoding Canon EOS 7D file (5202x3465 pixels, ISO=1600, Exposure=210.00s): 100%
Loading raw image: 100%

Writing output file: H:/Astro/27 04 11 RC/NGC 6888 Le croissant Brutes/cal/IMG_0038_c.fit
Dark scaling factors:
Writing FITS image: 32-bit floating point, 3 channel(s), 5202x3465 pixels: 100%

Calibrating target frame 4 of 9
Loading target frame:
H:/Astro/27 04 11 RC/NGC 6888 Le croissant Brutes/IMG_0039.CR2
Timestamp: Wed Apr 27 04:20:33 2011
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
ISO speed: 1600
Shutter: 210.0 sec
Aperture: f/1.$
Focal length: 50.0 mm
Embedded ICC profile: no
Number of raw images: 1
Thumb size:  5184 x 3456
Full size:   5360 x 3516
Image size:  5202 x 3465
Output size: 5202 x 3465
Raw colors: 3
Filter pattern: RGGBRGGBRGGBRGGB
Daylight multipliers: 2.184862 0.935831 1.256838
Camera multipliers: 1768.000000 1024.000000 1866.000000 1024.000000

Invoking: dcraw -D -k 0 -t 0 -o 0 -4
Decoding Canon EOS 7D file (5202x3465 pixels, ISO=1600, Exposure=210.00s):  94%

*** Applying error policy: Abort on error.

** Waiting for running tasks to terminate ...
<* failed *>

My system is 100% stable, and PixInsight is the only one soft crashing. 
I'm actually trying it in evaluation, but I think I'll wait for a more stable version to buy it (and eventually an automated stacking process  )
On another side, PixInsight is very powerfull in picture processing. 

thanks

[Nocturnal]

Hi,

sorry, I don't know why PI crashed in this case. I can tell you PI is more than worth the money even without the stacking feature. I use DSS for stacking and PI for post processing and couldn't be happier with the combination. You alone can decide what something is worth it to you but I recommend looking beyond the stacking feature when deciding how to proceed with PI. If you can help Juan reproduce the problem I am confident it'll be fixed soon.

[Starshoot]

Maybe there's a debug mode, in this case I'll can send some data to help resolving this issue

You're right Nocturnal (PI+DSS, that's actually what I'm doiin), but i'd like to to all the workflow under one software.
And I'm never totaly satisfied by DSS results 

[Juan Conejero]

Although "100% stable" is a theoretical limit in the IT world I think PixInsight is quite stable. Actually, there's nothing stable, especially computers

To help you I need some additional information. How much RAM do you have installed on your machine and what operating system are you using (32-bit or 64-bit? Windows?)

Maybe there's a debug mode, in this case I'll can send some data to help resolving this issue

There's no debug version available to users, but if you can upload data this certainly can help us.

We have an excellent preprocessing pipeline script written by S. Brown:

http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=2861.0

This is a work in progress that right now works very well. Expect further development of this script in the very near future. Along with an excellent implementation and clever design, what is very nice about this script is the fact that it is an initiative originated in the PI community.

Nothing in PixInsight has been made "to fill a gap" or anything similar. That concept is not in our dictionary. We work *exclusively* to pursue the excellence in everything we do, so PixInsight is worth for everything it has, *including* image preprocessing and also beyond that. Our calibration, registration and integration tools are excellent —or I'd remove them from all PI distributions immediately.