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Exposure in file name

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I have set following file name for "Live Stack (Processed)":
{TargetName}\\{TargetName}_{Camera}_Stack {StackedFrames} frames_{Exposure} s_Tot.Exp. {TotalExposure}_{DateTime:S}

The resulted file name:
Capture_Test Camera 1 (Deep Sky)_Stack 4 frames_20,0s s_Tot.Exp. 20s_2019-01-09T23_07_31
The individual exposure time is set at 5 s but the the file name shows the TOTAL exposure time.

Is this a bug?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Hi,

I've just tested these settings and I seem to get the results that I would expect from them
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The first exposure value is 1.3 seconds here and that is the length of the individual frames and the 2nd is the total exposure of the stack.

Do you see a different result of this?

Cheers, Robin
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Re: Exposure in file name

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I still can't replicate your result.
Always total exposure time instead of individual exposure time.
Tested on different computers with same outcome.
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Hi,

Okay, that's weird. The only thing I can think of is that there is some particular set of options that cause the problem to happen which are different from those that I am using.

Please can you give me some more details so that I can set things up exactly the way you have – for instance let me know the camera you're using, the settings you are using with it (particularly the colour space option) and the live stack settings that you are using. A screenshot showing the major camera controls and the main life stacking controls would probably have pretty much all the information that I need.

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Re: Exposure in file name

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Hello Robin,

Thanks replying.
Different 'screenprints' attached.
Done with the DeepSky Test Camera.
I've done also a test with a ZWO224MC, indoors, with very small exposure times (10 ms) but same outcome.
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stacking screen
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stacking alignment tab
stacking alignment tab
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output
output
10 x 50,0s = 50s.jpg (49.64 KiB) Viewed 3661 times
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Re: Exposure in file name

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and the file name settings
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Okay, now I understand why were getting different results – in spite of your first post clearly saying you were having problems with the process filenames, I went ahead and tested the raw filenames I think. Oops! I will retest later this evening.

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Re: Exposure in file name

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Hi Robin,
Did you already had time to look at this issue?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Hi,

I think I would need to add another template option for 'SubExposure' to fix this properly - if I change the 'Exposure' parameter to be the sub exposure length then other things will break (like saved file metadata values).

There are a couple of other requests for more template parameters (like temperature), so I will give this area of the program an update in the future.

cheers,

Robin
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Re: Exposure in file name

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OK thanks.

A while ago I did post a request re. annotation into processed image.
Perhaps this can be considered to:

It would be nice to have implemented the possibility to annotate the processed image.
Eg. Target information - Scope used - # Frames - Exposure time - "free information"
Thanks in advance considering this feature.
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