Smart camera for flame and smoke detection

Has anyone ever done this with the camera? Is the camera capable of hold the agorithems to do the task?

That sounds reasonable to try. But, I'm not sure if it'd be able to give you satisfactory performance and reliability. You do have the option of downloading the trial versions of our Vision Development Module (VDM) or Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (VBAI) products. You could then use any camera to acquire some images of smoke and fire and use our software to check if your algorithm ideas work. VDM is a LabVIEW add-on, which gives you low-level control over our image processing algorithms. Whereas, VBAI is a stand alone application that lacks some of the functionality of VDM, but it's menu-configured and allows you to create vision inspections much faster. Either of these software products can run on our smart cameras. I linked some info pages and trial download sites below.
Vision Development Module
http://www.ni.com/vision/software/vbai/
Evaluation: https://lumen.ni.com/nicif/us/evaltlktsigproc/content.xhtml
Vision Builder for Automated Inspection
http://www.ni.com/labview/vision/
Evaluation: https://lumen.ni.com/nicif/us/machinevisionbrochure/content.xhtml
Mike
Applications Engineer
National Instuments

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If yours are in a format that is not in Vazandrew's list, you may need to sync them to your computer and convert them to M4V or MP4 format. You can use a program like HandBrake to do the conversion. <HandBrake> Once converted, you can sync them back to the iPad and they should play.
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I bought a new iPad recently with a Smart Cover. I find the Smart Cover very good for typing, at the low angle. The angle is very nice, it feels very comfortable and it allows fast typing. But then what is called the FaceTime/Video angle seems way too steep for me, like 80 degrees. I need to be like 3 meters away, at least, to watch a movie correctly or to be captured by the FaceTime camera. I'm rather tall but still, I don't really get it. I thought for the first couple of days that I was folding the cover in a wrong way but it seems not.
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godbout wrote: ... Am I the only one to experience this issue? Or is there another way of folding the cover to get a correct angle?
My experience is the same as yours (and everyone else's, I suppose.)
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Hi, thanks for your input. I'm aware of the fact that my question is a bit OT, but I'm just looking for input from people with more experience and broader information in this area than I have myself.. I know people are here to talk about FCP, but I'm betting many editors and film makers who work with FCP will have more insight in this area than I do.
I've been reading every review I can find at dpreview, and also am watching as many test video examples I can find on the internet, mostly on vimeo because the ones on youtube look pretty awful. I just am reaching out to get some actual experience and advice from people who might give me pointers on what to look out for.
As for 60fps not being fast enough, I know what you're saying. But for me, even 60 fps slowed down to 25 fps on playback is enough of an interesting effect, as long as the actual quality of the footage looks good to start off with. I like the subtle effect of slightly slower than real motion when it's real, bona-fide high frame rate slowed down. Artificially created slow-mo using plug ins looks cheesy to me, and the gimmicky super high frame rates of cameras like the casio exilim (where the resolution looks like a mobile phone video from ten years ago) are completely useless.
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Hi,
This is a totally newbie question, but I'm a total newbie to the video part of the mac universe.
I want to use a camcorder to "stream" live video into iMovie (which will record it to the hard drive), and use an EXTERNAL microphone, plugged into the microphone port of the computer, as the audio source (I want to use a good mic).
Will iMovie support doing this? Is it automatic that the external mic overrides the mic on the camcorder?
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I wrote a reply to your earlier post ..but either the system went offline, or some other glitch occurred, and the post didn't appear. So I'll try to answer your earlier message and the one just above.
Congratulations on getting the camera, by the way!
"..play video through camera" option in the preferences, which MUTES the sound in iMovie.." ..Yes, this has been standard in iMovie from the earliest versions. There may be a slight delay between the audio you hear straight from the camera and the audio coming out of your Mac. To stop the annoyance of hearing the audio separately and slightly out-of-sync (..you'll find that the video on the Mac lags very slightly, too, during import..) you can turn OFF the Mac's audio with that preference.
"..I assume this goes away if I unplug the firewire cable.." ..er..? You mean that the preference switches back when you unplug? I can't remember: try it. But don't unplug the FW cable in the middle of an import!
What I was previously trying to post was:
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I still don't understand why you want to capture directly to iMovie. If you're using a camcorder, surely you'd want to capture to tape, in case you need to do three or four "takes" of the same material ..and then you only need to import, and fill up your hard disc with, the best of those takes.
And if you're recording a computer screen, then you wouldn't capture with iMovie at all, but with one of those other programs, above..

Output as a camera for chatting and webstreaming

can we have out put option for visual communication as a camera also. So as we can use for web live broadcasting application like ustream.tv or blogtv.com
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