4.0.11 – January 21, 2024
- Fixed bug another RGB Align bug causing seems showing up in the R and B channels.
4.0.10 – January 17, 2024
- Fixed bug causing incorrect colors when using RGB Align option.
4.0.9 – January 16, 2024
- Fixed bug when stacking images when AVX2 instructions are not available, causing lines in the image stack.
- Added option to manually enter a path in the data browser.
- Fixed date modified not showing the correct time in the data browser for folders of images.
4.0.8 – January 14, 2024
- Fixed bug causing cancelling of processing during buffering and analysis stage.
4.0.7 – January 14, 2024
- Fixed frame derotation bug.
- Added scrollbars for drives in data browser.
- Fixed ColorID when exporting raw color bayer SER.
- Fixed data browser displaying number frames and width/height from actual file when available (instead of only using Firecapture log file).
- Fixed horizontal/vertical blurring settings not being remembered correctly (rewrote the automatic quality method that could overwrite these settings).
- Optimized color and drizzle processing speed (minor change).
- Fixed bug when trying to save stacks for color images without sharpening the images.
- Fixed not opening certain session files in data browser (session files saved manually from interface).
- Fixed changing browse form when reading session files.
- Added option to read the metadata or not, and improved browser performance for large AVI files when reading metadata.
- Fixed file size metadata for image files.
- Modified form sizes.
- Added refresh of data browser as directories change (+manual force refresh)
- Added sorting of files in data browser according to all columns (click on column header; click again for descending sorting)
- Fixed black lines around image when using pre-filtering.
- Fixed bug that kept .AS3 file open in background after using data browser.
- Fixed bug in not re-reading files when stacking when blurring enabled (causing weird results, particularly when making multiple image stacks in one go).
- Fixed bug for AP placement not taking into account scaled brightness of the frame.
- Updated to FastMM5 memory manager for slight speed improvements.
- Removed Vampyre Imaging Library requirement to clean up code. This library was not
- Removed other components that weren’t really necessary to clean further up code.
- Many small code improvements behind the scenes.
- Added shortcut for some more menu (e..g, old style open browser = ctrl + shift + p).
- p.s. Happy new year!
4.0.6 – December 10, 2023
- Improved data browser; added support for images and folders of images, as well as stability improvements.
- “Find Anchor” now unchecks when manually placing an alignment anchor.
- Added brightness levels up to 256x under Display Options.
- Increased time of tooltip visibility (25 seconds).
- Default FFmpeg conversion command line parameter for conversion of compressed videos to raw avi files is now [automatic]. This setting tries to automatically detect grayscale/colour conversion instead of forcing to RGB. Remove [automatic] from the ini file to revert to previous settings. Keep ffmpeg.exe file next to autostakkert.exe for this to work!
4.0.5 – November 26, 2023
- Fixed missing removable drives in data browser, and some minor related interface tweaks.
- Fixed Min Brightness changing during batch processing of surface recordings.
- Fixed placements of alignment points in grid for data with little to no green channel information (e.g., H-alpha recordings with color camera).
- Improved surface stabilization; better tracking for images with big jumps when “Improved Tracking” is enabled, and some additional performance improvements.
4.0.4 – November 19, 2023
- Fixed reprocessing of first recording during batch processing of recordings
- Fixed not stacking batch processing surface recordings with find anchor set to True
- Fixed bug for BGGR bayer data showing an empty R channel.
- Fixed not opening avi files through the data browser with extensions not showing up in windows (due to hide extensions for known file types being enabled).
4.0.3 – November 12, 2023
- Fixed bug moving frame view window too far to the right.
- Fixed bug ignoring checkbox for automatic alignment anchor placement.
4.0.2 – November 11, 2023
- Fixed interface bug affecting missing setting for manual reference frame settings. The setting “% around center” tells the software to only use frames around the midpoint to create a reference frame (e.g., settings this to 50% means it will ignore the first and last 25% of the frames in the recording). This setting can be handy when processing very long recordings (to still create a sharp reference frame), or when creating animations the results can be a bit smoother. I don’t expect huge differences though. Note to self; this is not a change note, this is something that should be written in a user manual….
4.0.1 – November 11, 2023
- New data browser / selector
- Performance optimizations, particularly when processing very large files
- Automated placement of Surface alignment anchor
- Automated quality estimation settings
- Improved command-line execution
- Many small interface changes
- Many small bug fixes
- Many more bugs introduced!
Please note that this the very first beta release of AutoStakkert! 4. I expect lots of small and big bugs, please help me fix them by reporting your issues to me!
I’ll try to add more details here over the next few weeks.
Emil