Motion Detection and recording Video

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Tim in Tx
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Motion Detection and recording Video

Post by Tim in Tx »

Can this program record video and not just stills from the motion detection function? Stills are great and the time stamp is great as well, but I need more constant coverage and would hate to miss an image or get one that is too blurry to make out.

Thanks
tellmewhy
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Post by tellmewhy »

Can't record movie with it.
What you can do is save an image every [nn] second and then make a clip from the saved frames.
See Yawcam - On-line help
Yawcam -> Images to movie

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This function converts a series of images into a quicktime movie file. Access the function by clicking "File -> Images to movie..." from the text menu in the main window.

Start by adding the images you want to be included in the movie by clicking "Add images..." and selecting the images in the file chooser that pops up.

It's possible to delete images in the list by selecting them and click the "Delete" button. It's also possible to reverse the order of the images in the list by clicking the "Reverse order" button.

When the images for the movie has been selected, specify the frame rate of the movie. In other words how many of the images you want to see every second.

Also specify the name of the movie and where you want it to be saved.

At last click the ">> Make movie >>" button to start the making of the movie. You will then see a progress bar of the process that looks like this:

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When the movie is finished you will see a window with information about where you can find the movie:

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You need quicktime player (or compatible codec) to be able to see the movie file. Get quicktime here.
Tim in Tx
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Post by Tim in Tx »

Good to know, no problem there, still a great software package, how about using more than one cam, 2 or 3 lets say, if not on one session could you open 2 sessions and run 2 web cams on them at the same time?
tellmewhy
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Post by tellmewhy »

Here to i have to say NOT POSSIBLE to select two sources at the same time in one session of Yawcam.
However, it is possible to have installed and open [nn] sessions at the same time.
How to do this ?
See this thread : Yawcam - Use multipple camera's with Yawcam at my forum.
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