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We write and publish the world's best and easiest-to-use video software tools.

Use webcams, USB/Video Adapters, IP Cameras, video boards, and any camera with a Microsoft DirectShow driver, to capture video.

Start videoing today with a FREE copy of HandyAvi

ITS EASY TO USE!  Simply start HandyAvi then select the type of movie you want to make (Time-lapse, Motion-detect, Astronomy, Meteor Trail Imaging or Animation).  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, or birds 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 and construction applications. 

Planetary/astronomy 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 either with our built-in image stacking subsystem or with a freeware program such as RegiStax to produce extremely high-quality still images.

Meteor trail imaging lets you point a webcam at the 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... HandyAvi contains very sophisticated but very easy-to-use meteor capture algorithms.

Animation is a feature of HandyAvi that lets you make animation (stop-motion) videos. 

Plus these additional features: 


Example movies (Click here to see example movies created using HandyAvi)

See Camera Info for some additional camera information.

Our tools are currently in use in over 45 different countries and are being used for business, pleasure, scientific research, wildlife studies, time-lapse movie making, security, surveillance, planetary and lunar imaging, meteor capture, telescope control, video editing...

HandyAvi® 5.0 Deluxe Edition Video Capture/Editing Software 

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IP Camera Filter 2.5 For capturing Internet (IP) camera video

NOW, you can use Internet (IP) cameras in addition to webcams! 

Download the IP Camera Filter  Free unlimited trial!  (See IP Camera Support for more details.)

Buy the IP Camera Filter License - Just $39.95! (For single-camera license.)

See IP Camera Filter description and features!

View IP Camera Filter Documentation

 

Customer Comments:

HandyAvi 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.

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."

HandyAvi California Fireball video (Click here to see video):

"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."

HandyAvi support when a problem was encountered:

"I'm sorry I missed your call today.  I was in a meeting at work.

I have to tell you I am so incredibly impressed with the service level.  I never really thought I'd even hear from you. I had a break in at my house... I'm using this setup to attempt to catch them in the act...   I know they will be back, I just don't know when. 

Anyway... thank you so much for both responding so quickly, taking the problem so seriously, and creating a great little piece of software!"

[We resolved the problem and provided a Beta release to this customer within 12 hours...  We can't always guarantee that level of service but we try...]

HandyAvi - Catching a thief:

"...we have deliveries at 2 and 3 am most days when I am fast asleep in my bed and recently things have been going missing but thanks to your motion detection programme and one very small and very cheap web cam we have 'one less' dishonest delivery driver to worry about.  The cost of 40 dollars (£24 UK) to buy 'HandyAvi' has saved me about £6 per day in losses

Many, many, thanks,..."

We helped solve a user problem:

It’s working perfectly!  Good results from an overnight test.
Thanks for all your help in getting this up and running. 
I’ll be purchasing licensing codes tonight, and putting your software to use.

We helped a user solve an IP Camera problem:

 Wow, you got it!  You're amazing.  On a sunday, no less.

I bought this camera because I trust [seller of camera] to sell good stuff, but I might not keep it [the camera].  The hardware may be okay, but the software it came with [it, the camera] really sucks.  Now that I can use HandyAvi, maybe I'll keep it [the camera].  Kinda amazing these haven't been standardized.  Makes it pretty hard to produce software like yours.  Really appreciate what you do.

We helped a user connect his NTSC camera:

Thanks for the help earlier. I just discovered another RCA-to-USB product that works
with HandyAVI. It is the EasyCAP DC60 - USB 2.0 Audio/video Creator. I bought 3 from
Amazon.com for $7.05 each. I just installed one in my Vista machine and it worked
immediately. ... all is working for now.
I hope to produce some beautiful images of Saturn soon. I'll let you know.

[We have tested many USB/Video adapters and each of them worked well with HandyAvi...]

Something we had not thought of:

I use this program for time lapse of a nights sleep,  then take the video to my sleep Doctor so he can see what is going on.  It has been a great help.


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