Auto-Stack by interval BETWEEN photos

Hi,
I want the auto-stack feature to pick up the shots that I take in a burst, regardless of the shutter speed that they are taken at. At the moment the auto-stack seems to check the time-difference between the capture time of the photos; this is useful to a degree, but I would prefer a method where the time-difference in calculated between the end of one photo and the beginning of the next -
e.g. "[Capture time of photo 2] - ([capture time of photo 1] + shutter speed)" < specified auto-stack time
This would allow me to stack all shots that are taken in a burst, regardless of the actual shutter speed. This woulkd mean that low-light HDR bursts with AEB which result in shutter speeds of up to 30s would stack correctly, and be seperate to the next HDR burst even if it started 1 second later!
Gary

However I find the capture time of photos in any one stack exceed 1 minute!!  For instance, these are the capture times of photos in a single stack:
     8:19:12PM, 8:19:25PM, 8:19:43PM, 8:20:24PM, 8:21:19PM, 8:21:45PM
This is a maximum interval setting.  It has nothing to do with the total timespan of the whole sequence. Just, how closely-spaced the individual shots  were. These were less than half a minute apart.
IOW: how long can pass between one shot and the following one, before that is no longer considered to be part of the same continuing sequence.
RP

Similar Messages

  • Auto-Stack by Capture Time: results don't match selected interval

    I selected a collection of 2075 images in Grid mode, and invoked Auto-Stack by Capture Time, with "Time Between Stacks" set to 0:10:00. This resulted in all images being grouped into 7 stacks -- but the difference in capture time between one stack and the next stack was only a couple of seconds.
    I then changed the interval to 0:20:00, and repeated the Auto-Stack command. This resulted in all images being grouped into 4 stacks -- and again, the difference in capture time between one stack and the next stack was only a couple of seconds.

    Thanks Bob for that very fast reply!
    But neither "Modifying hal configuration" nor "Using the Desktop Environment settings" (xfce) worked. So I tried the "I don't want this crap, how do I turn it off?" solution and well it works
    Maybe I turn it back on in a month or so.. but for now i'm fine with no hot plugging but a working keyboard...
    Thanks and Bye!
    smax
    Last edited by smaxer (2008-12-09 17:42:43)

  • Intelligent Auto-Stack by burst Time?

    Hi,
    I'm just back from a dawn shoot by the sea where I was using auto-bracketing. Have hundreds of shots as each moment gives different reflections, blurry movements of boats, and people (late partygoers, early fishermen ;-) etc, I had lots of ND etc in use to get really silky water ... the result?
    Lots of small groups of shots (3 at a time) that are spread over a lot of time, and the existing auto-stack is reasonably useless. But, they were taken with high-speed drive on, and so I know there is only fractions of a second BETWEEN the shots - please can you give us an option to auto-stack by the time *between* the shots? You have the start time of a shot, and the length of a shot (shutter speed), so you  could compute the gap between them just as easily as just looking at the start time.
    This would allow me to stack by (say) 1/4 second which would catch all of my groups of shots perfectly, even though some shots in a group are 15s long
    And, at a sporting event, I could auto-stack my shots by each burst of the shutter, no longer how long, and still get seperate stacks for bursts taken even half a second apart!
    Ppppppplllllleeeeeaaaaassssseeeeeee ................

    However I find the capture time of photos in any one stack exceed 1 minute!!  For instance, these are the capture times of photos in a single stack:
         8:19:12PM, 8:19:25PM, 8:19:43PM, 8:20:24PM, 8:21:19PM, 8:21:45PM
    This is a maximum interval setting.  It has nothing to do with the total timespan of the whole sequence. Just, how closely-spaced the individual shots  were. These were less than half a minute apart.
    IOW: how long can pass between one shot and the following one, before that is no longer considered to be part of the same continuing sequence.
    RP

  • Auto-stack by capture time not correct

    Hi,
    I have 28 photographs taken sequentialy but not at same intervals; they are part of a collection. I proceed to select all of them and choose "Stacking-Auto stack by capture time..." from the context menu and choose time between stacks as 0:01:00 (one minute)
    However I find the capture time of photos in any one stack exceed 1 minute!!  For instance, these are the capture times of photos in a single stack:
         8:19:12PM, 8:19:25PM, 8:19:43PM, 8:20:24PM, 8:21:19PM, 8:21:45PM
    We can clearly see that the capture times between members of this stack are not within 1 minute. What can is happening?
    Thanks,
    Juan Dent

    However I find the capture time of photos in any one stack exceed 1 minute!!  For instance, these are the capture times of photos in a single stack:
         8:19:12PM, 8:19:25PM, 8:19:43PM, 8:20:24PM, 8:21:19PM, 8:21:45PM
    This is a maximum interval setting.  It has nothing to do with the total timespan of the whole sequence. Just, how closely-spaced the individual shots  were. These were less than half a minute apart.
    IOW: how long can pass between one shot and the following one, before that is no longer considered to be part of the same continuing sequence.
    RP

  • Auto-stack by capture time messed up my stacks

    After manually creating many dozens, perhaps a hundred stacks, I tried the Auto-stack by Capture Time feature.  Now my stacks are totally messed up; I either have way too many or none.  Is there any way to get back to where I was except by reverting to an earlier saved version of the catalog?

    However I find the capture time of photos in any one stack exceed 1 minute!!  For instance, these are the capture times of photos in a single stack:
         8:19:12PM, 8:19:25PM, 8:19:43PM, 8:20:24PM, 8:21:19PM, 8:21:45PM
    This is a maximum interval setting.  It has nothing to do with the total timespan of the whole sequence. Just, how closely-spaced the individual shots  were. These were less than half a minute apart.
    IOW: how long can pass between one shot and the following one, before that is no longer considered to be part of the same continuing sequence.
    RP

  • Auto Stack Freezes Program

    I have a Dual 2.5Ghz G5 with 7GB ram and a Nvidia 6800 Ultra video card - well over the recommended specs in everyway. I am having issues with Autostack being slow (hours) and/or hanging the program. I have tried importing 6900 medium sized jpegs (shot with a Nikon D2h) from a folder containing a older projects I am doing, which seems like it should be with within the capablities of the program with the hardware I am using. I will then select auto stack, and can move the slider slightly to adjust the time interval before the program gives me the spinning beachball, which it will then spend hours trying to process or will then freeze the program indefinitely (I let it go for 11 hours once) at which time I have to force quit it.
    I then tried it with a ancient project with jpegs from a Nikon Coolpix 950 which produced a averagew file size of less than a 1 Mb. I Auto-stacked 650 photos but still had the beach ball and it took about 10 minutes to complete- much longer than I expected with such small files.
    I have not tried RAW files yet.
    I hope somene has a answer on how I can possibly alleviate the problem, the auto stack is one of my favorite features so far when I can get it to work.
    Even with this problem I can say this program is awesome. It's very power hungry, but truly unlike anything I have used and a excellent 1.0 effort.
    Dual 2.5ghz G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

    Maybe this is why in the training DVD supplied with Aperture Apple recommends using the auto stack feature at the time of import from memory card or camera. There's a slider at the bottom of the import page which, if memory serves me correctly, does the auto stack command. This way you'll be stacking only say 100 raw images from a 1gb card and the numbers won't get too taxing.
    Still, this should be a fairly simple fix for Apple to sort out so here's hoping they get on the case sharpish! I think the auto stack HUD is loading each individual image instead of just working with the attached data.
    Power Mac G5 dual 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2.5GB RAM, 9800 Pro graphics

  • Importing from camera, auto-stack doesn't work

    Hi all,
    I've been using aperture for a while now. According to the manual Aperture should be able to do an auto-stack to the imported pictures and I can see the interval seconds slider on the import page. My camera is Canon 5d and I'm importing raw pictures.
    My problem is that if I touch the slider, it creates one huge stack of all the images on the camera memory card. So if it does an autostack, it treats all images as if they'd been shot at the exact same second. This is illustrated also if I tell aperture to sort the not yet imported pictures according to shooting time. They just appear in a random order after that.
    When the pictures have been imported, there is a correct shooting time/date in the EXIF information of the pictures. I'm not even sure if this is an aperture problem or a camera setting problem. When I look at the pictures on the camera screen, I can see the correct shooting time even in there.
    Any ideas?
    /hv

    Not sure if this would make a difference, but are you importing the photos directly from the camera or are you using a card reader with your memory card?

  • Auto-stack Panorama/HDR question

    When I try to use the auto-stack command in a folder open in bridge I get a warning box stating "Image is missing preview data" for every image in the folder. Is there a way to get around this, the folders I would like to use it on have between 400-1000 images. Thanks

    Lightroom already has an  export option in the Library or Develop module's Photo>Edit In menu. Check it out - it's called Merge to Panorama in Photoshop. All you need do is select the relevent images then choose this command, Ps launches and you do the rest from there. A similar command exist for HDR.
    Edit: added screenshot

  • Improve Auto-Stack and Process Collections with user settings

    I have read through all of the Bridge request discussions, and encountered a few comments on the stacking process but nothing to explain my critique and feature request. My apologies for any redundancy.
    Bridge CS4 includes two features that would (virtually) streamline my entire photo-organization workflow. Brilliant! Except that they offer zero configuration and my default scenario is very different from Adobe's, so these two would-be-wonderful features are pretty much useless to me, and to anybody else who doesn't happen to shoot in the way the presets are configured.
    The first feature is to automatically group images into stacks, based on their similarity, exposure settings, and timestamps. Unfortunately Bridge considers no minimum or maximum amount of photos per stack, and has a fixed timestamp window of 18 seconds. I shoot everything in three-exposure bursts and sometimes multiple shots in less than 18 seconds, so being able to say "process collections in 3-item stacks only" would be absolutely perfect. For other people, being able to limit the timestamp range or other min/max exposure options would work great.
    The second feature, which could save me hours every week but is equally useless, is to automatically process collections in Photoshop. My biggest ire about this function is that it completely ignores stacks that I have manually created AND stacks that were previously created using the auto-stack feature. Every time this function is run, it re-runs the auto-stack process from scratch and then delivers the collections to Photoshop. Not only is this made useless by the previously mentioned inflexibility of the auto-stack process, but even if auto-stack worked perfectly, this would waste time by doing the entire thing again and denying the user the option to review the stacks before committing to the Photoshop processing. The process collections feature would also be much improved if the option were given to process ONLY panoramas or HDR photos, or auto-detect. I have never shot a panorama in my life and I'm sure plenty of people have never shot HDR, but Photoshop isn't capable of knowing our intentions and there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to instruct it.

    Agree. It is an interesting capability that falls short of being really useful. I feel like an ingrate to complain, but ...
    I'd also like to see the capability to specify something than "Auto" for the panorama option. My experience is that most of my panos work best with "Cylindrical + Geometric Correction".
    My experience is that once you get past 5+ images in a pano, it becomes very tedious ... and then 20+ images in rows is painful. Unlike a single image that you can quickly evaluate, with panos I find I need to make the pano to tell if it going to turn out.  I have been generating smaller 1800x1200 or 1200x1800 files to speed up the evaluation process, but it is still very manual and tedious.
    The Auto-Stack generates a AutoCollectionCache.xml, but I haven't found it workable to edit this. I'd like to be able to modify it to "force" my knowledge of what is in a group. It seems to check the time-stamp, and re-do the Auto-Stack, thus ignoring my changes. Sigh.

  • PSE wish list - Auto stacking RAW + JPGs

    I'm using PSE V10 and have a 'wish list' item for suggested improvements to the program.
    A feature that would be extremely valuable to many users would be the ability to auto stack photos where there are the RAW + JPG images present in the Catalog. The JPG would end up on top of the stack.
    This can be done manually but is tedious when there are many photos to deal with. Failing an automatic feature a single action shortcut to access the 'Stack | Stack selected photos' command would be useful.
    a forum discussion on this topic is here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4585792#4585792

    As reported above I THOUGHT I'd found a shortcut suitable for stacking a JPG over a RAW.
    However, the stack command in the main menu, which has the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+S will stack the RAW over the JPG whenever the RAW thumbnail is ahead of the JPG in the Catalog. I want the reverse to happen.
    I found I can get the JPG to stack over a RAW, if the RAW appears before the JPG, by selecting the RAW first then with the Ctrl button down select the JPG. Then using 'Stack | Stack selected photos' in the mouse right click menu. However, this fails when using Ctrl+Alt+S whenever the RAW is listed before the JPG. Am I missing something?

  • Auto Stack JPG's in Front of Raw

    Hi,
    I shoot everything JPG plus Raw.  I have a number of reasons why, but would rather not make this post any longer..... I would like to be able to view everything in my library with all JPG's stacked in front of the RAW with the same file name.  I have been able to Auto-Stack by time (setting time to Zero Seconds) does this.  The Problem is that the NEF's appear first in the stack.  I want the JPG's first, always.  I can figure out any way to do this automatically.  It looks like I would have to manually change which file is first.  I shoot thousands and thousands of files, I need to automate this.  How can I do this?
    Secondarily, does anyone know how I could apply a star rating to just the jpg and have it also apply to the raw file?
    Thanks

    impactsystemsDT wrote:
    Thanks for the question.  Here is an example of why
    Yesterday - Easter Egg Hunt at my House.  I shot about 300 pictures.  Raw plus Jpg.  I want to go through them and I'll choose about 25-35 shots to document the event and perhaps make a photo book that I can keep for us and send to a few friends.  I want the JPG's for this purpose.  My JPG's generally look quite good.  I do pretty good job with my in camera capture and settings.  So, I want to be able to either spend zero time on these 25-35 shots or perhaps just 30 seconds to 1 minute on some or all to crop, vignette or some very quick adjustments, make my book and I'm done.  My wife is happy, my friends are happy and I have somehting to remeber the event.
    Then I will then have 2-5 really nice shots that I'll want to really work on.  I might spend 10-20 minutes on each of these.  I will generally process the raw file for the purpose.  Occassionally the JPG's are just fine, so I'll just process those a bit further.  I'll end of with a 2-5 "Hero" shots of the event.  I might use these to add to the photo book or to print or add to my portfolio.  Often I might just tag them to work tomorrow or next week or even next month when I have more time.
    So I want to go select my 25-35 shots from the 300 with a simple pick off the JPG's, then the one's I really want the very best quality and versatility I.d like to be able to click on the stack (JPG in Front, Raw behind total of just 2 shots) and work the Raw file (the Negative). I don't ever have time to process more than a handful of Raw shots from any one shoot and frankly 95% of the time the JPG's look as good as the Raw files even after a fair amount of processing, so I really only need to process the Raw file on certain types of files.  Having said that I am a very competent at processing and use combination of lightroom, photoshop, NIK, OnOne and Topaz.  I just don.t need to do post capture and pre-out sharpening, cloning, healing, content aware fill, gradient filters, advanced color processing etc... on 98% of my files.  The JPG's I create are good enough most all the time.
    It seems that many people would want to work this way.  I don't to rate all of the JPG's and the Raw's.  I just want the Raw's (negatives) behind the JPG's so I can dive into them if I need to for the 5% or so of the files that I really want to spend time on.  That doesn't mean I won't use the the other 95% (well more like 10%), it just meanst that the jpg's are just fine to email to friends or make photo books.  Not every file that comes out of Lightroom is supposed to be the cover of Sports Illustrated.  Raw and the JPG that I captured are the same file and it should be treated as such.  Importing as the same file doesn't give you any access to the JPG so I don't see the purpose.
    agree with your workflow and raw+jpg should be linked as same file (as in aperture)

  • Auto-stack doesn't work

    I am new to Aperture and am exploring all of it's features. Unfortunately I cannot get auto-stack to work. I have a project with 900 pictures. When I slide the auto-stack slider to the right, I get a spinning ball. After a minute it looks like the images have been stacked. When I close the auto-stack HUD, all the stacking disappears again. Am I doing something wrong here? I do not think it has to to wit my MBP. It has to be fast enough.

    Not sure if this would make a difference, but are you importing the photos directly from the camera or are you using a card reader with your memory card?

  • Auto-stack hanging up machine?

    Hello,
    I'm trying to use the 'auto-stack' feature. Unfortunately, every time I try to use it, it seems to hang Aperture for a very long time. I'm wondering why this is, as I'm using a Quad G5 with a 7800GT graphics card & 4Gb ECC memory. (The project I'm trying to stack has only 1100 images.)

    I started over. I deleted all 20,000 photos, and began importing folders one at a time, working from 2005 backwards. This time, rather than having top level folders = projects and subfolder = albums, I made every subfolder its own project. This kept every project under a few hundred photos.
    Autostacking both in the import tool and after import remained lightning fast.
    Around mid 2002, I had a single folder with 600 images. I carelessly imported it, and ...
    Ooops!
    Autostacking anywhere including projects that had worked moments before now gives the spinning beachball. Projects with ~30 photos which I've been restacking every so often during this process to see what happens, suddenly take 120 seconds to restack.
    On startup, Aperture says 64 projects, 7,269 items not stored in vault. In the library, I find 5,796 images if I open all stacks, 2,246 if stacks are closed.
    Have I crossed a total image threshhold? Or was it having a single project with 679 images?
    I dunno, but it's not the Quad G5, since from the delete-all until this latest folder was imported, everything was screaming.
    G5 Quad   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   6.5 GB RAM / CD 30" / Aperture

  • Auto-Stack stacks erractically

    I have problems with auto-stack -- the stacks are more-or-less random. Unrelated photos are grouped, yet ones take only a few seconds apart are not stacked. This seems consistent every time I've tried it. Adjusting the time slider just ends up with a very slow response. The latest project I'm trying it with has 1600 pictures from 3 different cameras, but even continuous sequences from the same one are messed up. I've tried it on reduced selections -- same problems.
    I've given up with it and do it all manually now.
    Anybody got it working properly?
    G5 dual 1.8 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   Olympus E-1, E-300 (+ Canon Digital Ixus V2)

    I noticed with my Canon XT that there is a bug in Aperture stacking when you first connect the camera up. Perhaps this is causing your problems as well. In my case when the camera is hooked up, and aperture automatically goes to the import mode, all photos on the camera have the same date and time, so the stacking doesn't work properly. What I do to work around it is cancel the import mode, and then turn the import mode on again (click on that arrow in top left corner). This causes all the images to have the correct time in the import window, and stacking works correctly.

  • Why can I no longer swipe between photos in iPhoto?

    why can I no longer swipe between photos in iphoto?

    I will request that your query be relocated to the iPhoto forum where knowledgeable iPhoto user will be able to assist you.
    Ciao.

Maybe you are looking for