Hi, I am trying to find a video camera app with a particular function. The idea is that the camera records in a loop of, say, 30 seconds (that is jut an example), constantly overwriting the beginning to make sure there is always 30 seconds of continuous footage recorded. Then, when you press a button, it saves everything from, say, 10 seconds before the button was pushed to 20 seconds after to a file. Then it starts recording again.
The advantage of this approach is that it lets you capture action more easily, for example sporting events, lightning strikes, birds catching fish, a baby doing something cute, etc. For events that are expected, but too quick and unpredictable to prepare for, human reflexes are too slow (and the phone is often slower), meaning that by the time you hit the button to start recording the event is already over. On the other hand, this approach takes much less storage space and less postprocessing than just recording continuously for minutes or hours.
If you have watched BBC's Planet Earth, it is the same principle used to get the shark attack videos (although that was also a higher-speed camera). I also had a camcorder with a similar function built-in. However, I have not been able to find such an app, either on google play or by searching the forums here. Does anyone know if such an app exists, or if there is an camera app that has this feature?
TheBlackCat13 said:
Hi, I am trying to find a video camera app with a particular function. The idea is that the camera records in a loop of, say, 30 seconds (that is jut an example), constantly overwriting the beginning to make sure there is always 30 seconds of continuous footage recorded. Then, when you press a button, it saves everything from, say, 10 seconds before the button was pushed to 20 seconds after to a file. Then it starts recording again.
The advantage of this approach is that it lets you capture action more easily, for example sporting events, lightning strikes, birds catching fish, a baby doing something cute, etc. For events that are expected, but too quick and unpredictable to prepare for, human reflexes are too slow (and the phone is often slower), meaning that by the time you hit the button to start recording the event is already over. On the other hand, this approach takes much less storage space and less postprocessing than just recording continuously for minutes or hours.
If you have watched BBC's Planet Earth, it is the same principle used to get the shark attack videos (although that was also a higher-speed camera). I also had a camcorder with a similar function built-in. However, I have not been able to find such an app, either on google play or by searching the forums here. Does anyone know if such an app exists, or if there is an camera app that has this feature?
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Not sure if I'm getting the right idea, but wouldn't this drain battery life?
ginno95 said:
Not sure if I'm getting the right idea, but wouldn't this drain battery life?
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Probably, although how much depends on whether the looped video is short enough to keep in memory. But it wouldn't take any more battery than recording a continuous video, which is the only way to record these sorts of events without this feature.
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I'm doing a project at university where I want to use my phone (a rooted Nexus 4 running CM10.2 nightly) to record everything my phone knows about my life, 24/7.
By everything I mean every sensor on my device (GPS, accelerometer, compass...), every message, every call, every photo I shoot, every notification... everything that is loggable.
I tried apps like Sensor Track and Sensor Recorder, but these seem to be meant to record stuff over a few hours at best. Also, its much better for battery life when the app only records for one or two seconds every minute or so, and both Sensor Track and Sensor Recorder record all the time.
I'm also in the process of experimenting with "Funf Journal" (would like to post a link, but I'm not allowed yet), which is pretty much what I'm looking for, but it's pretty buggy, it seems, and right now it's crashing a lot. It also doesn't record notifications, but I don't know if that's even possible, even on a rooted phone.
So, does anyone know of an app which can do what I want? Is recording of notifications possible?
Thanks,
Marius
You've probably gotten your answer since October but here are two ideas:
Moves - tracks your geographic location
Momento - aggregates your online (social media) life
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Today i notice that the second hand in all watch faces are delayed some seconds from time to time. When you wake the watch you see the second hand jumping serval seconds forward. Any way to solve this?
Same problem here. Sometimes theres a delay of 10+minutes and i have just enough time to realise thats not the time before it catches up. Frustrating when i need to simply glance at the time. Also on the "tachymeter" watch face I use the stopwatch function, however the stopwatch starts then stops showing the time recording, showing 0:00.97 every time. If i press stop, it tells me the true time I was trying to measure, But sometimes I'd like to see how the time progresses, For example if I need to countdown something. Is my watch too full of crap? Do i need to delete files???
Just got a lg 360 camera and having a strange issue, it stops recording exactly 20 minutes in, this seems like an artificial limitation, but I can not find how to stop it.
I am using a 64gb sd card and the file size is 2.4gb (I realize on afat32 4gb will be the limit but expected it to simply create a new file at that point.)
Extrapolating out and rounding up that is 7.5gb an hour so the 3 hour long events I planed to record would take 22.5gb so disk space is not an issue....just this darn 20 artificial limit.
Any solutions (seems a common issue from searches but cannot find any fixes)
mrgreaper said:
Any solutions (seems a common issue from searches but cannot find any fixes)
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This question is not really new. see here > https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67111950&postcount=4
a solution is ,as i know, not available until now.
Tip: the record time seems to be a little longer, if you reduce the resolution.
see here->https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67305581&postcount=23
But who wants to do that?
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This question is not really new. see here > https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67111950&postcount=4
a solution is ,as i know, not available until now.
Tip: the record time seems to be a little longer, if you reduce the resolution.
see here->https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67305581&postcount=23
But who wants to do that?
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Yeah since these will be viewed mainly in vr, resolution matters a lot more then usual...damn, gonna have to rig up a timer and hit record again every 20 minutes, sometimes developers make some absolutely bonkers decisions, personally i would of just had it auto create a new file and let the user decide when to hit stop.
(and that thread did come up in my searches i but i did not want to necro it)
Well today was the big test and tbh the camera failed it.
Ok so the first recording stopped after 20 minutes, no surprise there as i was expecting it.
I restarted the recording and it stopped after 12 minutes
I restarted the recording and it stopped after 4 minutes
I restarted the recording and it stopped after 2 minutes!
It was rather warm to the touch (even though the room we were recording in was fairly cold)
i let it call down for a couple of minutes and tried again... it stopped after 9 minutes so yep it was over heating
I tried to record again...22 seconds
I gave it about 10 minutes to cool down and tried again, it lasted 19 minutes
Then 1 minute recording time
I gave it 2 minutes cool down and it lasted 7 minutes
then 2 minutes recording time
I gave it another 2 minutes cool down and it lasted 8 minutes
This is where the battery failed
Now this was in a large, not chilly but not warm room, with plenty of space around it. full recording length about an hour 45 ish all done with the wifi turned off on the camera to conserve battery on 360 degree mode full resolution (assuming manual record uses full resolution) total file size pre-converting (which using thier desktop app is taking forever!) 11.6gb
to say i am not impressed is an understatement.
somebody else has reported a notification requester after restarting his record again. Recording was discontinued because overheating of cpu. See here for more information about that: post 12!
-> http://360camerasforums.com/index.php?/topic/1079-record-while-charging/
This seems to be a health protection of LG 360 cam firmware. Stop of recordings after 20 min or 4GB of size (because the capability of FAT32)
as you can see, it should be the same circumstance with Samsung Gear
-> http://www.threesixtycameras.com/best-360-camera-out-now/
non-toxic said:
somebody else has reported a notification requester after restarting his record again. Recording was discontinued because overheating of cpu. See here for more information about that: post 12!
-> http://360camerasforums.com/index.php?/topic/1079-record-while-charging/
This seems to be a health protection of LG 360 cam firmware. Stop of recordings after 20 min or 4GB of size (because the capability of FAT32)
as you can see, it should be the same circumstance with Samsung Gear
-> http://www.threesixtycameras.com/best-360-camera-out-now/
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Yeah i get the feeling its early adopter symptoms and not something that is easily fixed (no amount of firmware updates is going to add cooling...unless it blows a capacitor and makes a hole, which may cause some unwanted side effects)
My 11gb 1 hour 35 minute 2k(not as impressive as that sounds, remember thats 2k for 360 degree so in reality much lower res then hd?) video is uploading to youtube, at the minute i can not share the link as one of my mates has asked the video remain unlisted until he has seen it.
It was a bleep to join the files together, everything i tried either did not work or wanted money, in the end i had to use a trial version of adobe premier cc 2017 (no idea what ill do next week, make a new adobe account most likely lol(in my defense if it was a one off charge i would pay it...£20 a month...nope dont have that kind of money) anyway, this took an hour and a half to join the files, but i loaded the result into the lg 360 desktop player and it worked perfectly
It should also be worth noting here for people that find this thread, the desktop application converted the videos a lot slower then my honor 8 smart phone.... i mean like 3 or 4 times slow and only one at a time. (my pc, being an i7 6700 with 16gb ram and a gtx 1080, should of had my phone dead to rights lol)
@mrgreaper
Normally a good video cut software has to render only the few frames between two parts of video. But all the costless software i know, will render the whole video again! This is absolutely unusable to save time!
maybe this could be interesting for you too:
1.) http://vidpromom.com/edit-360-video-theta-s-360/
2.) http://www.viar360.com/
3.) https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-360-degree-video-editing-software
you could test PowerDirector 15 of Cyberlink or VideoStich. Both are able to edit 360° video streams. You can get trials of both software!
sometimes i put my phone in my bed and i forget its there so it ends up falling to the ground,
i usually have it in a vertical stand,
there is any app or task manager that i can config so it remmembers me with a beep the phone is not vertical, and therefor,
it will keep beeping once every hour for example, and when its vertical, to stop,
thanks
spalnndsstest said:
sometimes i put my phone in my bed and i forget its there so it ends up falling to the ground,
i usually have it in a vertical stand,
there is any app or task manager that i can config so it remmembers me with a beep the phone is not vertical, and therefor,
it will keep beeping once every hour for example, and when its vertical, to stop,
thanks
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You should be able to concoct a simple DroidScript for yourself using the easily accessible motion sensors. Now, JavaScript doesn't have a built-in "sleep" timer (to save on processor cycles and battery life), however: You can usually wrap your own or copy someone else's sleep function and use that.
You could even create a task-manager type scheduler or just use the DroidScript itself to act as a time-based scheduled event to launch between X and Y hours every Z days (infinite I'd assume!).
If you're asking if there's a pre-made application to address this small injunction of luxury of life: I do not believe so; I say that based around the belief that not too many persons have such ideas let alone that issue. Who knows? Maybe I'm totally wrong and you could become a millionaire by being the first one to write it!
You could get your 10 minutes of fame on the Google Play Store!!!
Hi.
Since the first time I tried to make a slow-motion video, I notice that the camera can't capture enought light, like it's always in the dark, but the regular photo/video works great.
The next day instead, one time when I open the camera app a toast appeared: "unknown error" and the camera wasn't open; in the second attempt instead it worked normally, even the slow motion video.
But sometimes, the 480fps video are "laggy", and sometimes not.
I'm pretty sure, at this point, that is a software problem. I already tried to delete the app's data, but nothing changed. Anyone have this problem too?
All high speed cameras ever made, especially stupid high framerate ones like 1000FPS+ (just gets worse the faster they get) needs bright light. You're not going to be shooting high framerate video on any device in dim lighting situations any time soon unfortunately.
Maybe turn on the improvement program data sharing if you want help with the errors, that would most likely be something the phone sends info to Oneplus about.
Already enabled. The bright problem in the slow-motion wasn't the low light itself, because I tried outdoor in the day, full of light. This disappeared after a while, but I can't replicate anymore. Have no idea.