Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
Hi Mabula,
After Calibration, Registration and so on, the final lum stack gets a few pixel larger than the subs and the rgb combine does not work. If I integrate the rgb channels without the lum I have no problem. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Uwe
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Hi Uwe,
Yes, the integrations will have different dimensions due to integration composition set at full. The full composition mode created a Field Of View in which all pixels of all frames are used in the integration. If you use the reference composition mode, then the integrations will have the same dimensions as the chosen reference frame. So that's one solution, just make sure that you use the same reference frame (either a good Lum or Green frame I would recommend) when registering the frames of different channels.
There are several other solutions for your problem:
- just create the integrations of all channels separately, and afterwards, load the integrated channels as new lights and register en save them in 4) using save registered frames.
- Or register all frames of all channels at once. Then 2 possibilities, save all the frames and put the registered frames for each channel in separate folders (for your own overview), and then create the integrated channels by using the no registration mode (since registration was already done). Then the integrated channels will have the same image dimensions and are registered to each other. The other possibility, don't save and after normalisation, just select the frames for each channel and click on integrate to create the integrated channels.
Let me know if you can create your composite now 😉
Kind regards,
Mabula
Hi Mabula!
Thank you very much for your help!
With the "register all frames of all channels at once" + "just select the frames for each channel and click on integrate" + "try out things in tools" i have got a first result. And I like it:)
I have a lot of different files: 5x300s R/G/B, flats: 15 R/G/B, 10x600s lum, 11x600s darks, 15x300s darks, bias: 15.
Can APP handle such a puzzle?-) It recognises the different darks, but I'm unsure about the flats.
Anyway, I will make further attempts in the next days.
Thanks again for your help!
Kind regards,
Uwe
Hi Uwe,
Currently, it's best to calibrate the data of the different channels first. Then proceed with the calibrated frames 😉
In a future version, I am planning to have implemented full multi-channel processing, then APP should be able to do as you indicate.
Kind regards,
Mabula
