PC controlled slow motion video?

[gregulator]

We are using cameras in industrial environments to setup our equipment and are finding that the downtime associated with running cameras is a huge time suck. Our workflow right now is:

1) Setup 4-6 gopros to trigger off the wired remote
2) Record events
3) Stop video, take gopros out of cases, and take SD cards out of gopros
4) Dump SD cards to computer
5) Either evaluate the videos separately, or combined in a multiview stream
6) Repeat!

If you could control gopros via USB, it would be perfect, but you can't even record with them plugged in.

Are there any similar devices that you can control from a PC, and dump while plugged in? 720p at 120fps would be ideal. We don't need live streaming.

We don't necessarily need waterproof cases, but something somewhat rugged would be nice.

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[Scarpozzi]

Maybe something like this....
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...G&Q=&A=details
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...FWIV7AodhXkAZA

There aren't a lot of good solutions for your problem because the gopros are the problem. If you don't have a wifi or some kind of wireless technology to offload the data, you're stuck. Another possibility is to build your own wireless camera from a rasberrypi that has a remote wireless feature. Something you can poll from a server to download client content on command or run a test to see if the units recorded data.

 

[gregulator]

We don't need them to be wireless, in fact I would love them not to be wireless! But we also don't want to spend a fortune on cameras and recording rigs (like setting up a basic broadcast booth!).

I looked into CCTV and IP cameras but there doesn't seem to be anything that quite fits (plus it gets expensive).

My current thinking is to just rig up something where I can plug in the gopros to USB, and kill the USB 5V when I need them to record. Turn it back on when I want to dump the footage...

 

[jaedaliu]

It's been a while for me, but you could connect video cameras via firewire, and have them copy directly to their own hard drives. You would want to pre-allocate the storage space, otherwise windows swap is going to cause skipped frames.

Getting the wireless-enabled SD cards that Scarpoozi suggested is the easiest solution, and probably the cheapest.

 

[brainhulk]

There's a go pro phone app that lets you view what your go pro is recording