Hi folks,
When I'm viewing the Moon, currently Full the frame rate displayed at the bottom of the screen is nice and high, over 20fps for example.
As soon as I start to capture video .SER files that frame rate drops right down and alternates between 1.3fps and 1.8fps.
My camera is the ASI 6200MC Pro.
Is this merely due to the large file sizes involved with this camera OR are there settings that I need to adjust?
I look forward to your expert advice.
Regards,
Dave
Reduction of Frame Rate when taking .SER of Moon
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Re: Reduction of Frame Rate when taking .SER of Moon
Dave
It might be worth working through this viewtopic.php?t=2590 to better understand your camera's USB rate capability. It would be useful to provide some settings from an attempted capture by including a camera settings file and maybe a screenshot. All these tests can be done in the house with the camera cap on and the camera connected to the capture PC.
Dave
It might be worth working through this viewtopic.php?t=2590 to better understand your camera's USB rate capability. It would be useful to provide some settings from an attempted capture by including a camera settings file and maybe a screenshot. All these tests can be done in the house with the camera cap on and the camera connected to the capture PC.
Dave
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Re: Reduction of Frame Rate when taking .SER of Moon
Hi Dave,
since the speed is dropping when you start to capture, it sounds like it is the speed of writing the image data to disk/SSD that is the problem. Check that the disk that you are writing to has plenty of space, and that it has been defragmented (hard disk) or optimised (SSD) recently. You can also use the disk speed test in the filename settings (see https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.0/#Speed%20Test) to test the write performance of your system.
cheers,
Robin
since the speed is dropping when you start to capture, it sounds like it is the speed of writing the image data to disk/SSD that is the problem. Check that the disk that you are writing to has plenty of space, and that it has been defragmented (hard disk) or optimised (SSD) recently. You can also use the disk speed test in the filename settings (see https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.0/#Speed%20Test) to test the write performance of your system.
cheers,
Robin