Needed - Program for time lapse video capture

[subucni]

Hi,

As title suggests i'm trying to find a program that i can run on my pc to capture footage from my Canon XM1 video camera via firewire for an experimental video i want to make. Basically i want to capture straight to my pc but with an hours worth of video taking up approx 13gb, i just haven't the hdd space to be able to leave it capturing for hours and hours. Plus it's also just impractical as with time lapse it would mostly be unwanted footage.

So what i need is a program that can capture X amount of frames/seconds of footage every Y seconds/minutes/hours etc.. Any suggestions? There must be some program that can do this.


Cheers

Bres

[scottyman]

or just under 11gb
I'm not sure - you won't be capturing at that rate - 720 x 576 x 24bit it a bit extreme to say the least.
You'd probably use the composite output (allowing it to be monitored by a security camera application) then set timelapse on that. you'd be storing mjpeg format, or avi - but ideally mjpeg (as you can then monitor individual frames as they're being recorded)
simple.
That's exactly what we did from canary wharf to record the building of the dome. Mind you, I'm in TV so we did cheat a bit

[scottyman]

your main problem with timelapse will be iris control over time, as if camera is in standby before recording frame, it will have to wake up, adjust iris, then record frame. generally, adjustment of iris will happen as you're recording the frame - so you may experience blooming.
better grab a second at a time, then edit - take the last frame of each second of video recorded.

[subucni]

I've work out a way of being able to prevent my XM1 from going into standby so i should be able to set it up manually how i want it and leave it without it having to go in and out of standby all the tape, and as i'm just using the camera for front end video capture and not actually wearing the tape heads i don't leaving it on. just like a glorified webcam.

I would want to capture in pal 720x576 for TV playback and .avi would certainly be easy for editing (especially if the program would store all the captures with sequentially numbered)

I'd agree that some kind of webcam/security camera app would probably be the best option by far, i just have no idea of whats available to use.

[SHISH]

My Intel camera has a lot of apps like that with it and once installed will use other installed video sources.
Maybe look around some of the webcam sites and places like Hauppage tv card site for progs. Know there was some freebie time lapse etc on there a while back and I`ve seen a few around on web cam sites.

[SHISH]

Just remembered.
Isn`t there a timershot prog in Windoze XP powertoys?