CCTV - Image every 64 hundredth of a second?? Help or advice

[pateljay 0]

I was hoping you could help me -

 

My CCTV footage is time lapse CCTV and is displayed like this Timecode HH:MM:SS.00 - but the 00 at the end is not the frame rate (I dont think so anyway) I think it is ms - showing 1/100th second?

 

For example a time from the video would have 20:35:01.95 for example.

Times run at -

20:35:00.67

20:35:01.31

20:35:01.95

and so forth. So has a 0.64 gap between each new image.

 

it looks like it takes an image every 64 hundredth of a second? Is that correct?

 

Its basically time lapse CCTV, and I think that it takes a unique frame every 1/64th of a second. Is that correct?

 

any thoughts? Could you help?

 

Why do CCTV cameras do this? Is it to save on storage space?

 

Any help or discussion on this would be great. Thank you in advance.

 

Jay

[Soundy 1]

Analog cameras themselves actually only give you a new image every 1/25 or 1/30 (depending whether they use PAL or NTSC video standards, respectively). They do this simply because those are the specs of those standards, and all equipment must conform to it if cameras and recorders are to be able to talk to each other.

[SEANHAWG 1]

It may be your camera. I bought a couple cheap cameras from China one time and when I plugged it directly into my monitor, it looked like a very fast time lapse recording, basically the view was not 30 frames per second, it was more like 10 fps, it sucked.