You can easily jump between frames, line up objects with half-translucent overlays of previous frames, keyframe lights, sync audio to your character’s mouth movements and manage huge amounts of captured stills, while always staying on top of things – try that without such a piece of software! With the so-called Arc motion control workspace within Dragonframe, you can control third-party hardware in order to pull of stunning moco shots of your animations.
With it, everything regarding stop motion becomes less fiddly and more creative, because the software takes care about almost everything.
Moreover, you will have more days covered on the hard drive (depending on the location camera set on motion may get 3-7 hours of motion recording daily).Heads up, stop motion fans! Edelkrone has just released a new stop motion module, which seamlessly connects its HeadPLUS series with the industry-leading Dragonframe stop motion software.ĭragonframe is the de-facto standard if you are into fully-fledged stop motion projects. If something happened, you know exactly when to playback.
However, when it’s possible the motion detection is way more convenient than recording continuously. Motion detection works best in small areas and is ideal for residential or retail environments.īut for larger area such as outdoor of parking lot or inside warehouse, it is recommended for one to use 24-hour recording mode. Let’s say, you can set the system to record continuously 8 AM-8 PM and on motion during the nighttime. This way, when you are playing back motion recorded event, you will see before the object has triggered the motion and after it has ended.Īnother useful feature is to set the security system to record the motion on certain timeframes only. Post-record record is the number of seconds the recorder records after the motion event has ended.
It’s recommended to set the pre-record above 30 seconds. As the name suggests, pre-record is the number of seconds the recorder actually records before the motion event. Pre-record and post-record settings are very important features that will provide better performance when recording on motion. For example, you can set the entrance area as very sensitive and the rest of the picture in low sensitivity. Some new recorders allow you to set different areas on the picture with different sensitivity levels. The algorithm will track and compare the differences between subsequent frames, if your sensitivity is set to the highest level, the algorithm will trigger the motion detection even if the differences between these frames are low. Usually, 1 represents the lowest sensitivity whereas the highest (usually 5 or 6) represents the greatest sensitivity. Most security systems use a range of numbers to determine how their motion detection algorithm works (some variation of H264 standard). Motion sensitivity is not as straightforward as the motion area. You can exclude parts of the picture you deem unnecessary, such as a tree that triggers the camera all the time. When setting up motion area, it is very important to limit motion active area in the video, so you can avoid false motion events and subsequently save more recording storage. Motion area is as important as motion sensitivity because both determine when the recording starts. When you are setting motion detection for each camera, you have to keep in mind a few things such as motion area, the sensitivity of the motion detection, and pre/post recording settings. Only after the algorithm determines that there’s unnecessary (motionless) events, the footage will be disregarded. When you are using motion recording, security systems are always recording in the background as a buffer. Since H264 ignores the stationary objects, house, stationary car, or tree in the images, and only uses changes in the motion blocks in the frames for recording, motion detection saves both bandwidth and recording storage. Using H264 standards, motion detection works by comparing the frames one by one and subsequent changes in the image. Unlike 24 hours recording, motion recording does not record unnecessary events. Compared with motion mode, recording continuously 24 hours a day will give you fewer recorded days on the hard drive.īoth motion and continuous recording work by using the H264 compression. When you set your system to record 24 hours, the recorder will store the footage continuously on your hard drive using the framerate, resolution, and bitrate specified on the settings of your recorder. Nowadays almost all security systems are able to record on two modes: continuously (24 hours non stop) or based on motion detection.