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The input of the process should be a `.tiff` 3D and temporal stack with one or more channels.
If you want to use fix points registration option, you should have a file that contains the position of each tracked point at each time.
See in our demo dataset for the format of this file.
It can be for example generated from a [TrackMate](https://imagej.net/plugins/trackmate/) file with the macro [getTrackPosition](XX) proposed in this repository.
It can be for example generated from a [TrackMate](https://imagej.net/plugins/trackmate/) file with the macro [getTimePoints.ijm](./src/napari-3dtimereg/getTimePoints.ijm) proposed in this repository.
Activate your python virtual environement in which napari and the plugin are installed.
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Go to `Plugins>napari-3dtimereg` to start it.
Load the movie to register. The plugin will ask you to choose the channel on which to calculate the registration, so choose a channel that should be immobile during the movie (for example, the channel containing the fibers which should be stable over time).
Set the `reference channel` to the corresponding channel number (that you can see in the bottom left part of the viewer, with the layers name `MovieChannel*`).
Set the `reference channel` to the corresponding channel number (that you can see in the bottom left part of the viewer, with the layers name `Movie_C_*`). In our example dataset, choose `0` as the reference channel (the red channel that contains the fibers).

Click `Update` to get to the step to choose the [registration parameters](#calculate-temporal-alignement).
## Parameters
### Parameters
In [Sarde et al., 2025](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643016v1), we used the following parameter values to register our intravital movies:
*`use reference points: True`
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*`spline final spacing: 200`
*`final order: 1`
When the parameters have been selected, the registration will be calculated.
This step can take a lot of time depending on your movie size.
## Output
At the end of the process, you will get a folder named `aligned` in which all processed stacks will be saved (registered stacks)
At the end of the process, you will get a folder named `aligned` in which the registered movie will be saved.