Customizing Movie Interactive

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Customizing Movie Interactive

 

This page shows how to use the Movie Interactive program assuming that a GenICam Video Interface (GenICam.vin) should be used.

The functionality of the program while using an Emulator File, Video File or another Video Interface is quite similar.

 

➢Start the Movie Interactive 2 program.

 

The main menu is shown and the button "Video Interfaces" can be clicked. Choose the GenICam driver (under %CVB%Drivers) and open it.

 

Movie2Interactive_2_options

 

Now there are two buttons below the "Video Interfaces" button:

➢ Options (Grabber Property Dialog) and

➢ GenICam (GenICam Property Grid).

Use these two to make the settings for your grabber and your camera.

 

The following table shows all possible settings you are able to do with the four tabs before recording:

Menu Items

Description

Options

Refer picture above.
Use the Option tab to select the handling of timestamps or to stream meta data to the video file.
It's also possible to grab the video stream here.

Grab: While checked you are able to see the real-time video in the image window below.

Timestamp: Enable / dispabel timestamp writing to image.

Metadata: With Movie Interactive 2 you are able to write metadata to your video file.
This means for example that you can write a timestamp to the video file without changing the original image data.

 

Start Event

Select the Start Event (keyboard, mouse or a specific date / time).

start

 

Keyboard or mouse input: Starts acquisition with a keyboard or mouse signal.

Specific date / time: Starts acquisition at a specific date and time.

 

Stop Event

Select the Stop Event (keyboard, mouse or a specific date / time).

stop

 

Keyboard or mouse input: Starts acquisition with a keyboard or mouse signal.

Specific date / time: Starts acquisition at a specific date and time.

Choose the "Number of frames" box in the down right corner to select the number of frames recorded after the stop event had occurred.

 

Processing

Select the algorithms for processing the video stream before it's saved to harddisk.

Processing

 

Processing plugins as AOIcut, Bayer to RGB Conversion, Frame skipping, Image Normalization, Resize and Software Trigger are included.

You are able to add one or more with the "Add" button and to do the settings with the "Configure" button.

If you choose more than one plugin they will processed one by one from top to bottom.

Refer to Plugins for Movie Interactive 2 for more information about these plugins.

 

 

Especially for the "Video Interfaces" there two more possibilities as output.
Additional to the standard outputs (video file and single files) you can also choose two different kinds of ringbuffer handlings.

The outputs are explained at the User Interface chapter.

 

We choose "Ringbuffer to file -Start Event"

 

Movie2Interactive_2_ringbuffer

 

In this case 10 frames will be saved in ringbuffer after starting the recording.
In the drop down list you can select a codec to compress your video file bevore saving it.

Click "Apply and close" and a green "Get Ready" button will pop up in the main form.
Click this one and you are able to start the recording (in our case we start it with mouse or keyboard).