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Video stacking

Feature Request

Posting this to gauge interest.

Stacking from a short video is a Helicon feature I use occasionally.

The Panasonic G9 (possibly others) stacks in camera by racking focus while recording video. If you want the same stack on a computer the short video is all you have to work with.

Video recording is equivalent to fast burst shooting and you can manually create stacks by racking focus or moving the camera.

You can stack from video by rendering all fames with ffmpeg and selecting them for stacking. It would be nice and not very much development work for macro studio to automate that.

Posted by Stu ·
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  • Mathias

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    Oct 24

    i would totally use that. useful for quick and dirty preview of what ends up in focus - and for focus stacking video in motion control scenarios.