Write AVI

Interface

Instructions

1. Image to Save - Specify which image to save.

2. Write to Filename - Specify the file to save the recording to.

3. Limit to - To stop the recording you have two options. You can limit recording to a set number of frames and/or stop after a set amount of time (whichever comes first).

4. Stop after - Specify the time to stop recording.

5. Frame per second - Specify the number of frames per second the video should record at. Note that 30 frames a second is standard for most movies. However, if you do not need very fluid movement you can reduce the number of frames per second in order to reduce video size.

This can also be used to record a movie slower or faster than being played.

6. Compression Codec - Specify the type of compression you want to use to record the video. Note that the video size will depend greatly depending on what type of compression you use. If you are not familiar with compression codecs chose "Microsoft Video 1" which is a good general codec.

7. Configure button - To configure the compression options to a finer degree you can use the Configure button to show the compression dialog specific to the selected compression driver.

8. About button - To know more about what Compression Codec you are using press the About button.

9. Quality - Many of the codecs will allow a quality measure to be provided on how well the video will represent the true pixels. Less quality will create a smaller video file whilst higher quality video will create much larger files.

10. Keyframe every - Some compression drivers use temporal encoding which may need more keyframes when playback occurs online or with some viewers. A keyframe is a frame within the video that includes all information to reproduce that frame without having any dependent information stored in previous or next frames.

11. Use Real Time - If you use a function that may slow the image processing pipeline (such as the movement detector) you should uncheck the "Use Real Time" checkbox. This removes the actual timing of the image frames so that frames can be played back in a sequential time frame irrespective of the actual time the image frame was saved. With the checkbox checked the actual time while recording is used. This may cause the original timing not to be preserved when processing videos.

12. Command Variable - To automate the starting and stopping of video recording (i.e. through the API) you can specify a variable whose value will contain either Start, Stop, Pause or Restart as a command word which will cause the module to perform the appropriate action. Note that once read the variable will be set to blank to avoid repeating the same action more than once.

To start the recording press "Start". You can also manually stop the recording by pressing "Stop".

Note that any recording will terminate if less than 20 Megs are available on your hard disk to prevent the computer from running out of disk space.

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