How to set default for TIF files

[jeffweiss9]

Hi, I'm using BatchProcessing to calibrate 75 frames of DLSR data for a major panorama but when I select .tif as the output format, BatchProcessing writes 32-bit floating point tif files instead of 16bit integer.  Apparently Microsoft ICE for generating the panorama, can't read these floating point tif files.  Global preferences doesn't show a way to choose a default tif format.  Am I missing this or can that be selected in the BatchProcessing script?
THanks,
Jeff

[msmythers]

Jeff

The BatchFormatConversion Script.


Mike

[Juan Conejero]

Do you know the MosaicByCoordinates script by Andres del Pozo? You have it readily available and fully documented in PixInsight.

MosaicByCoordinates can generate ultra-wide field mosaics very easily with high accuracy, PixInsight's native floating point and XISF support, and a prescribed projection system. The tool you mentioned in your post is a generic panorama making program, which will stitch your frames inaccurately and without any control on the geometry of the generated mosaic, besides forcing you to degrade your data to 16 bits and an inferior file format.

That application can work for daylight panoramas (although there are much better solutions, including free/gratis ones not based on patented algorithms), but it is definitely a bad choice for astronomical images.

[jeffweiss9]

Thanks, Mike-
I had already done them by hand, but much appreciated for next time.

Juan-
That's terrific.  With MS ICE and the data for my astrobin post that you referred to (Southern Winter Milky Way),
I just gave MosaicByCoordinates a try, but it only accepts FITS files so I'll have to convert my TIF's again and definitely try it. I'd like to use it in combining the northern and southern hemisphere Milky Way shots I have to make an astronomically accurate picture of the galaxy.
Thanks,
-Jeff