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Title: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: MarkS on Mar 18, 2009, 23:10:10

Everyone else is having a try, so here's my attempt - hope it works. It covers 90 minutes elapsed time.

http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10046/lulin280209.avi

Hmm - I couldn't make it work without right clicking the link and doing "Save Target As ..."

And you might have problems with the Codec I used: Indeo 5.0

Let me know if it works.

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: Mike on Mar 18, 2009, 23:24:17

Works for me. Nice animation Mark.

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: JohnP on Mar 19, 2009, 09:32:26

Nope not for me with windows media player

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: mickw on Mar 19, 2009, 09:59:17

Nope, me neither in latest Media Player but it works fine in Media Player Classic

Here : http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=media+player+classic

Nice animation as well

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: MarkS on Mar 19, 2009, 10:06:52

What's the best codec to use for maximum compatibility? I could re-create the avi.

I also have a much smoother animation with 4x as many frames but it is very large.

Mark

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: JohnP on Mar 19, 2009, 10:09:46

Couldn't you just save as an animated gif? It's what I did with mine... John

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: MarkS on Mar 19, 2009, 10:48:42

Aimated gif gave me a really clunky colour palette - it looked terrible.

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: JohnP on Mar 19, 2009, 11:10:14

ah... mine was B&W so I guess this wasn't an issue...

I did my animated gif in Pshop - I'm sure there is an option to export as a Macromedia Flash (SWF) file - maybe this would work better without the blotchey pallette...

John

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: MarkS on Mar 19, 2009, 11:57:41

I'll give SWF a try ...

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: MarkS on Mar 20, 2009, 06:43:10

Using Photoshop (instead of PaintShopPro) I've now created a GIF animation that looks O.K. but it is much bigger than the AVI (8Mbytes instead of 2.4 Mbytes)

Trouble is, I can't upload it to the server. It seems to successfully upload O.K. but when I then try to place it in an album I get the error "The previous file could not be placed"

Mark

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: Rick on Mar 20, 2009, 09:23:10

It's probably failing to produce one or other of the smaller versions. Or it may be another manifestation of the current login problem. I'll look into it.

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: Rick on Mar 21, 2009, 12:10:56

Yes, it was the thumbnail it couldn't create. I've done the necessary hacking to create and upload one now. Just don't try to re-create the thumbnail... ;)

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: MarkS on Mar 21, 2009, 17:33:27

Thanks Rick!

Here's the link to the animation (8 Mbytes):
http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10046/lulin280209v2.gif

Mark

Title: Re: Mark's Lulin Animation
Post by: JohnP on Mar 21, 2009, 17:50:25

Nice Mark - that has came out well - good to see in colour even if clouds are playing havoc with the background.

Well done & worth the effort - John

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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: MarkS on Mar 18, 2009, 23:10:10