Anyone know how to make a time laspe movie from a GEOVISION?

[iwatchlive 0]

I was wondering if anyone knew how to make a time laspe movie from a GEOVISION DVR? I have a huge construction site that wants snap shots from different times of day and wants to make atime lapse movie out of them to visually show the job site progress.

 

Any suggestions? We have a work around, but it is a manual one and it would be miserable to have to do.

 

Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Adam-

[rory 0]

One way is to manually select the AVI files and then make a slide show out of it.

 

Movie type way would be to start a new project in Windows Movie Maker, then import all your clips, and make a WMV file out of them.

[iwatchlive 0]

It would be so awesome if it were able to work like an axis 2401 for certain feeds!

 

I was also wondering if anyone had any success witl windows media encoder or real player format to stream from the cameras input? If so what captures the video and streams it before it gets to the GeoVision.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

AC

[jeromephone 6]

Check out movie Salsa on the web I am using it on a construction project to make a time lapse but I believe you can import avi into it also only about 20.00

[Jasper 0]

Try doing a search through Google. I came up with a few programs. I used "avi time lapse software" in my search. If you could find some software that would create a Jpeg file per a specified time period you could easily put together a time lapse slide show.

 

I may have something that would work, but I can’t remember off hand anything that I have that will totally automate the process. If I run across software that will do that I will let you know. And you let us know if you find something.

[rory 0]

Give me a couple weeks and I could write a program to do it .. but $$$$$

[Jasper 0]

It's not worth your time. There are so many programs out there that do just about everything. You just have to find them.

 

I have tons of stuff. I just don't know what the majority of it does

[rory 0]

yeah but they wont know where to look for the geo files, and how the geo format is for those folders and files, but you're right, ive got my hands full

 

If it was going to be something that could make some serious cash though.. i'd be right on it ..

[Jasper 0]

Have you considered being a pimp, they make lots of money

 

You could try an oline Casino, they make a lot of money, just make sure you have lots of cash up front and people you can trust

Oh yeah, if you did the gambling thing you'd have to move to Costa Rica

[qman 0]

RORY's a cashwh0re.

[CCTVINSTALLER 0]

How about giving the customer a multiplexer and connect a VCR, put the loops back into your geo. However, You'd have to manually hit record at random times in the day.

[Jasper 0]

If you can find a good AVI file editor you can just edit out large sections of video out and the just save the pieces you want. Then Join the files together.

 

I have done this with an MPEG-2 editor, but not an AVI file editor, but I know there are programs that will do that. If you run accross a more automated method let us know.

[andy 0]

I don't know if this idea would work, but I'm just kinda thinking out loud. What if you used the GeoFTP server option..this uploads a snapshot to a server you designate, but it just overwrites the image..so you would have to create a batch file to rename the image with the time and date or something, everytime you needed the snapshot...then, I saw an app. called Img2AVI (it's in german and supposedly you need some other app. installed, but it worked for me) that has a command line interface...you can then create another batch file to point this app. to the directory where the images are and create the .avi..phewww. Meh.

[cctv_down_under 0]

beat me to it andy!!