Hoping someone could give me a suggestion or two of what to do with an recording of the 2017 eclipse I made with my camcorder.
I didn't have any sort of tracking mount which would have been what I needed, instead I figured I'd set the camera up, let the sun move across the frame and then post-process it to align everything. I took one early pass and got sidetracked and didn't check again. I think what I did was to use
vdub to deinterlace and export all frames. There's a crap-load of frame even when done at 30 fps. Thinking back, I may have recorded progressive frames, so there may have been 60 full frames/second. I can't remember but will investigate.
What I'm hoping to hear is someone has a trick to measure an inter-frame x/y movement and then be able to create a fine movement script for avisynth/vdub. I just have no idea other than taking several sequences of frames and trying to manually measure the movement. This sounds like hell, so I'm hoping someone can come up with a less painful way to do this. I believe I took a large group of frames into
photoshop and tried to align with transparencies but that was slow.
I expect I'll also be throwing away a large percentage of the frames, and then also changing the playback framerate to play quicker.
I've got an older version of adobe's CS5 so photoshop and premier. I've also got an older version of
Vegas if any of those will help. I just recall that Premier at that time didn't play well with
avisynth there was something about creating a frameserver and importing to be able to do anything but I don't recall any thing which would help. But... maybe vegas has a motion tool which I could align the first and last frames and let it find the path?
Sorry for the bit of rambling, I've thought about this a bit but without a good knowledge of the tools and what they can do for me.
Thanks for any ideas!!!