Processing with Autostakkert

This section describes how to process a video file to stack the frames and create a single TIF file.

1. Start Autostakkert, drag and drop a suitable video capture file (AVI or SER format) onto the Open button and check the settings are suitable.  The Frame percentage to stack depends on the quality of the video but 25% is a good starting point.

2. Click the Analyse button and wait for processing to complete.

3. In the other Autostakkert window, crop the Image Size (unless trying to include moons).  Select a larger Alignment point (AP) size (104 in this example) and click Place AP grid.  Any APs (red dots) at the edge of the image can be removed with a mouse right-click.

4. Click the Stack button in 2 above.  Upon completion of processing, two TIF images will be created in the folder AS_p25 (the stacked image and the sharpened stacked image after stacking the best 25% of the frames).