Help with script to auto align and crop, then export

[threplogle]

Hello everyone,

I shot a timelapse from the top of my SUV and there is some movement of the camera between shots. I'm trying to write a script to:

1. Open the first image in the folder

2. Use this image as reference to align all of the other images in the folder.

3. Crop all of the images to 16x9

4. Export as tiff layer into another folder.

I'm not much of an action/script writer (hence this post).  Thanks in advance for any assistance!

Tom

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Photoshop has a script for stacking files to layers, which has an option to attempt to auto align:

File > Scripts > Load files into stack

You can then crop all in one go.

There is also a File > Export > Layers to files script if you need separate files rather than a layered file.

[threplogle]

Thanks Stephen for your response! I'm trying that right now on my M1 Max MacBook Pro and after two solid days it's still going.  The Tifs are about 50MB in size so it's quite a big task.  Is it possible to create a script to use one file as a reference and open each image individually, align to reference file, crop, and save....and then close everything out and repeat the process with the next file?