[ome-users] Initializing a movie without loading to mem

[Guy Blanchard]

Hi,
From IDL, I'm using your FileStitcher which is working well to identify the FilePattern of groups of images, and then accessing specific images thereafter is all good.

However, 'FileStitcher->SetId, filename' will never work for some applications where I have too many images to open at any one time (whole series is 70Gb+).
Is it possible to initialise the image series with FileStitcher without loading any images, or only a necessary subset?

I couldn't find any class methods that would do the job, and documentation that you point to on your website didn't seem as far as I could see to address this. Sorry if I missed it.

Of your Memory Management options, these seem the kind of thing, but I can't see how I can implement them with or combine with FileStitcher.
	• Crop the view area
	• Open only a subset of images
	• Use Virtual Stack

Any help gratefully received.
Many thanks,
Guy



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Dr Guy Blanchard
Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 3DY
UK
gb288 at cam.ac.uk
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