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HandyAvi 3.2 (New
version 3.2 - 7 June 2007)
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All you need to start is a copy of HandyAvi 3.2 and a USB Webcam or an NTSC camera and a USB adapter. HandyAvi works with nearly all USB Webcams such as those sold by Logitech (Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 for example), Philips (The ToUcam Pro and the SPC 900 NC have been favorites among amateur astronomers), Creative Labs, and others.
ITS EASY! Simply start HandyAvi 3.2 then select the type of movie you want to make (Time-lapse, Motion-detect, Astronomy or Meteor Trail imaging). Then use the control panel that comes up to set up and begin making your movie.
Time-lapse movies let you speed things up such as flowers opening up or clouds moving in the sky. Use it to see what happens when ice melts. Capture building construction, sunsets, moon rise, plants growing, bird growing up in a nest... Use HandyAvi with a microscope to show crystal growth or speed up the movements of an amoeba. Create time-lapse movies showing cell division.
Motion-detect movies let you leave out boring stuff. For example, you could point the webcam at your yard and instead of getting a really LONG movie showing your unchanging yard, you'd get a much shorter movie showing only the things that HAPPENED in your yard, such as a dog or cat walking through. If you were to point the camera at a bird feeder, the movie would only show the scenes where birds were present and moving about. HandyAvi motion-detect is also ideal for surveillance applications.
Planetary movies are oriented toward the amateur astronomy community. You would usually take these types of movies through a telescope. Most webcams are sensitive enough to allow you to make images of the moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. HandyAvi contains a full set of Meade telescope controls so that both the webcam and the telescope can be controlled remotely. Typically, movies created this way are then processed with a freeware program such as RegiStax to produce extremely high-quality still images.
Meteor trail imaging is a new and exciting feature of HandyAvi that lets you point a webcam at that sky at night and capture meteor trails. HandyAvi will capture frames that precede the "trigger event" (a frame where the meteor is bright enough to cause the trail to be recorded) and also frames that follow the "trigger event." This means that the WHOLE trail will be captured. HandyAvi suppresses "false trigger events" so that camera noise, star scintillation, stars drifting slowly across the field, etc. do not cause images to be recorded. The file produced after a night of imaging will be very small, containing only events that pass the sophisticated "trigger event" tests. The meteor trail imaging mode can also be used to capture lightning during storms, airplane trails, satellite passes...
Customer comment regarding HandyAvi for Surveillance:
I use this program with a wireless camera I bought on ebay, for home security purposes. I use it to time-lapse video survey the front of my house. Your program was by far the most inexpensive one out there for time-lapse purposes.... I had to do a little research to see if this program would suit my needs, and it does, absolutely perfect I might add.
Customer comment regarding HandyAvi meteor trail imaging:
"Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!
I let the program run all night, and even with passing clouds there was not one false detection in the group. I picked up many "very dim" objects passing through the clouds, with no false detections. I believe you have hit the solution on the nose. I am extremely happy with the results. I believe your program is now the easiest to use, and best of the group, of the existing meteor detection programs."
Customer comment regarding the California Fireball image up above:
"This was taken with HandyAvi operating from a second port of the Sentinel all-sky camera system here in Yuba City, California.This movie is spreading on the Internet & local TV with CREDIT references to HandyAvi & the Sentinel System at every opportunity.A major event, which might lead to a recovery attempt by NASA, or JPL, if they hear/read about it, and certainly by private local citizens to obtain fragments.Rare to get a compete video.... Sentinel did not capture the explosion. Just the Fireball."
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