BlurXTerminator with Russ Croman (Interview, Use, Workflow and more)

Free 30-day trial (or purchase) of BlurXTerminator: https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/BlurXTerminator/?refId=ab50193bb04b84af Here is the first interview Russ has given since he released BlurXTerminator to the world in late December 2022. This is a wide ranging interview that covers many areas and addresses many questions through Russ's explanations and demonstrations. As mentioned in the video a comprehensive explanation of the architecture of Russ's neural network can be found in this AIC video he published on his own YouTube channel at: https://youtu.be/JlSUVJI93jg A shorter version of this video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc91GAHrL2Q Use the Chapters below to find topics of interest: 00:00 Introduction (Interview and Explanation) 08:10 Tour of the BXT process by Russ 09:22 Explanation of Automatic/Manual PSF for NonStellar features 15:00 Demonstration of variable sharpening (Automatic PSF) 16:17 What is oversharpening? (Fine scale deconvolution) 20:05 Behavior of the PSF Diameter Slider 20:45 How to determine best PSF value 22:20 Major Updates to AI version 2 25:05 Luminance Only Mode and Aberration Corrections 26:51 Chromatic Aberration Correct Only (demonstration) 29:18 Manual PSF uses circular/symmetric PSF (demonstration) 29:50 Luminance Only Mode Demonstration 33:25 Correct First (demonstration) 35:21 Best Workflow with BXT 41:57 RGB Considerations 42:42 BXT on individual color channels? 43:47 BXT For matching PSFs (repair of images) 44:54 LRGB considerations 46:10 Narrowband Images (SHO) 51:00 Demonstrations in PixInsight 51:40 Baffled at BXT Popularity?? (SNR example) 55:11 Limitation of Deconvolution 56:24 Comet example (using BXT, SXT, NXT...) 57:35 Batch mode of SXT mentioned 58:57 M88 example (LRGB) 59:41 Showing improvements of the different AI versions (and Luminance Mode) 1:02:05 Ill matched PSFs for LRGB (example) 1:04:13 SH2-104 example 1:05:00 BXT only sharpens features that exist in image 1:09:02 BXT is not "content aware" filling features 1:11:45 Overfitting of Neural Net? 1:18:07 Results (vdB 1) 1:19:46 Results (vdB 4) 1:22:09 Final words Wrapup More at: http://AdamBlockStudios.com See the Reviews: https://www.adamblockstudios.com/categories/Reviews Those just starting out in PixInsight will enjoy FastTrack Training! (Updated to include SPCC!!!) https://www.adamblockstudios.com/categories/pixinsight-fasttrack-training-beginners (see the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrEqFS2Yd4 ) #PixInsight #BlurXTerminator #NoiseXTerminator #StarXTerminator #Deconvolution #neuralnetworks #vdb1 #vdb4 #sh2106 #AdamBlockStudios