Making Time lapse movie

[ebonic]

Hello.
hope you can help me out with this one.

we have just bought 3 axis cameras and camera station 2.11.
we have a costumer who wants to film some construction.
the cams will be placed into three rooms and are set to take a snap shot every 100 secs (could do with beeing more like 500 but 100 seems to be as high as it will go.)
the software saves these pics in a single file (.media) my question is how do you extract these pictures? is there any programs out there that can take them out of this format?

the only way i can see is to run them through the axis soft ware one at a time and manualy save the ones you want. 3 cams over a 12 month project.... thats gunna be a masive task!

any one have experience they could share?

thanks in advance

Matt

[ipvideotechnician]

Hi Matt,

The best way to do this is bypass AxisCameraStation and set up an FTP server on a local machine. Then, create an FTP event in the camera to FTP a file over to the FTP server once every 500 seconds as you need. Make sure that the FTP event uses a file structure that includes the date/time in the filename and stores the photos from each camera in a different folder. This keeps all photos from the cameras together and stops them being over-written.

At the end of the project you will have three directories full of photos. Simply compile them into three seperate timelapse movies and bob's your mothers brother.

James
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