A new approach to studying thermo-acoustically driven heat release fluctuations has been developed. By performing a phase correlation of the pulsation signal for each instant in time in post-processing, a number of advantages over the usual online processing technique are obtained: many frequencies can be analysed from the same data set allowing faster recording and introducing fewer errors than performing the phase correlation online. The method does not require complicated trigger and delay line setups and is most flexible. As an example of this technique, two different pulsation modes of a swirl combustor are resolved from only 300 chemiluminescence images. Further use of this method for a wide variety of applications is indicated.