ElphelVision
We are working on a touch screen based camera control interface with all camera controls, live preview and an integrated file browser/viewer to watch the files on the camera connected HDD/SSD. This interface will work together nicely with the hardware buttons and rotary encoders (see Dictator project) displayed on the touch-screen tablet PC.
The name "ElphelVision" was chosen in honor of the company Elphel Inc. that builds the free software and open hardware camera modules that are the heart of the Apertus project.
Initial Concept Design
About
The down-to-earth idea is to create the camera control interface as user friendly (in terms of usability and visual experience) as possible. We think the days where you had to navigate through several levels of menu structures on your camera with an up/down/select button setup are over. Of course it also has to support all features you would expect from a state-of-the-art camera but we try to do it in the most pleasing way for both the eye and the person who operates it. This means we keep the live video preview area clear of any text or icon overlays (you can switch on cropmarks and guides though). All buttons are ordered and labelled in a way that you will know what this particular button will do before pressing it and seeing the results.
Screenshots
Versions 0.5
Versions 0.4
Versions 0.3 and older
ElphelVision (Version 0.3) running on EeePC connected to camera over Wifi
Technical Specifications
- free software
- developed as cross platform Java Application
- using libvlc(jvlc) to display live video stream with very low latency
- or alternatively Gstreamer framework for very low latency video and a nice plugin architecture
- live histogram
- freely configurable markers/guides
- audio monitoring & recording
- recording of videos or stills
- full manual control of all camera parameters
Download
Files that go on the Elphel camera
Developers: Setting up IDE and compiling from source guide
Task: Video Clip Browser
We are looking for someone to develop a clip browser that allows: easy transfer of recorded files from the camera to a host computer with validation (md5 most likely), easy viewing of copied clips with navigation-timeline, viewing of metadata/exif tags, transcoding of video files to different formats (JP4 sequence to DNG sequence for example). Ideally this clip browser is platform independent.Similar to Sonys: XDCAM Clip Browser or Panasonics P2 Viewer
Contacts
Please contact us when you decide to start working on this task so we can add a note to the task history about your goals.
History
13th Oct. 2009: Task openend
Other Recording software
- video disk recorder and file browser (camogmgui)
Post Production
JP4 (RAW)
Experimental Avisynth plugin to demosaic JP4 video by Steven Mingam.
Experimental Avisynth plugin to demosaic JP4 video by Konstantin Kim.
