Aligning Photos of Anular Eclipse

[RRochelle]

I am trying to align 70 pictures to make a movie and prevent them from jumping around. Composite does not seem to be working for me. Is this a possibility in
PW60??
If you could guide me toward whats available I would appreciate it.
Many Thanks for your wonderful program.
Ray Rochelle

[tomczak]

With Composite, have you tried picking a single image as the base Input image and than adjust all the remaining 69 or them to it by selecting them as Overlays in turn? I would try Operation = Register and Alignment = 1-Point or 2-Point. If that doesn't work, perhaps a Multipoint alignment could? The images need to be probably cropped later to the same size, but that could be automated.

[MikeG]

Ray,
If I were you I'd align this largish number of shots using Alan Hadley's CombineZP available here: http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co. ... lation.htm. This is free software which works wonderfully well BUT only handles 8 bit images.
The software is designed for focus stacking but I'm pretty sure that you can save the aligned images prior to the focus stacking stage.
The aligning is automatic, but with a range of options, however the saving of the aligned images may have to be done one at at time.
When I use the program (for focus stacking) I do the bulk of post processing first, save as jpg, then focus stack, and then a little further post processing.
Mike.

[RRochelle]

Thanks Mike I will go there and download and try it and report as soon as I can
Ray