Process Container Question

[SeattleStarGazer]

I have a series of Comet 21p images I'd like to use to create an animation. I'd like to process each frame the same - DBE, background neutralization, color calibration and histogram stretch. Is it possible to do this with process and image containers, or would I need to do it all manually? There are a couple dozen images so no big deal but a batch process would be great

[pfile]

it is possible, however, DBE does not work with ProcessContainer so you would have to use ABE. you need to set it to discard the background model and to modify the original image though.

having said that, you can load everything into Blink with the channels unlocked and it might look OK. Blink can produce animations if you install ffmpeg.

rob

[ngc1535]

You might also find that if the issues in the images are small- simply applying a Linear Fit to the images will make the animation look good.
-adam

[msmythers]

I did a video a few years ago now that was 800 plus frames. I used a process and an image container. For color balancing(Not Calibrating) I used the AutoHistogram tool. I also let ABE normalize the background. While not the best quality in the world for way too many reasons I found this approach good for the extreme number of frames and the environmental conditions I have in Florida.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B13r3kYqTf8NM3pVZkpLUUhaaHM/view?usp=sharing 

It is a total of 3.6 hours of single images made into an MP4 and then to a GIF. There were 864 images used to make this. The shots were taken from my light polluted front yard. Each exposure was 6 seconds with a 9 second delay between shoots. I would go out and try to recenter the camera on the Double Cluster every so often. Everything was done in PI including using Blink and FFMPEG to make the video and the GIF shown on Astrobin.

https://www.astrobin.com/201725/


Mike