Wierd IcCapture behavior

Hi all,

I got my DMK camera the other day and installed the IcCapture software successfully. I did first light this morning on Mars and Venus. The Mars session went fine, but I got some weird results when doing Venus. I was using a UV filter for my first three runs, and I have the frame capture limit set to 2000. I get a nice image and do the capture, with the screen confirming 2000 frames in each capture session. When I went to process the avi in Registax, the program shows 6000 frames in the first sequence and 10000 in the next two. Turns out (to make a long story short) that I had the 2000 original images and 2 exact copies in the 6000 seq and 4 exact copies in the 10000 seq, in other words only 1/3 and 1/5 of the sequences were unique images. Needless to say, they did not process very well. I painstakingly extracted the 2000 unique frames in one sequence and processed it and it turned out fairly nice. Oddly, this did not happen during my Mars run 2 hrs earlier or after I removed the UV filter for two w.l. Venus runs immediately after. I have not heard of this elsewhere. Somehow my DMK yahoo group membership got removed, so after I get back into there I'll ask there too.

Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Paul Maxson

Paul,

If you e.g. say exposure time is 1/15s and you ask for 30fps, you will have 50%
double images, this is how it works...

Dodi

Paul,

I have seen this as well. I think you might be dropping frames from the camera and the software is "filling in" the missing frames with the previous copy to make the .avi smooth. Try experimenting with other Codecs. Another possibility is a bandwidth limitation with your computer. Try closing all other apps and/or running on a faster desktop machine to verify.