Talk:Record

Implementation Discussion

And the final name of this activity is?

Activity's NAME? the candidates are

Photograph

Record

Capture

or ??? add-here:>

Feature Requests

Stop-Motion Support

This would be a really nice feature, enabling kids to shoot both time-lapse movies and stop-motion animation. A few examples of what this would enable:

• Time-lapse movies of plants growing, and of their daily cycle
• Time-lapse movies showing the weather over the course of a year
• Time-lapse movies of a kids face over the course of a year.
• Creative stop-motion animations

Key features:

• The ability to shoot and append frames to an existing sequence.
• Ghosting: The last 1-5 frames in the movie should be transparently overlaid over the current camera view to provide a guide for aligning the camera consistent with previous exposures. This would also be very helpful to stop-motion animators.

This would only really be helpful if you can view this from another computer. Standing in front of the camera and screen probably isn't going to be ideal. Specialization is for Insects 19:48, 2 October 2007 (EDT)

• Support for a movie file-format allowing totally independent frames, and easy appending of frames. Probably M-JPEG or MNG would be suitable. Additionally, support for storing the exposure time/date of each frame would be desirable.

Other desirable features:

• Auto time-lapse: The laptop would wake at a preset interval (eg. every 5 minutes), take an exposure and then go back to sleep. Since the camera and subject would both presumably be very still, very long exposure times could be used to deal with low-light conditions (eg. nighttime sequences). The backlight could even be activated as a form of illumination in ultra-low light conditions.
• Editing: Kids would be able to insert, remove and shuffle frames around within a sequence. Additionally, they should be able to manually align frames to compensate for jittery camera positioning.
• Auto-alignment: It might be workable to use motion-estimation to correct a jittering camera-position between frames.
• Smooth low-fps playback: A 10 frame movie would need to be played back at a low framerate to last a satisfying length of time. In order for this to look good, playback could cross-blend between frames rather than flicking from one frame to the next.

Mike260 09:52, 24 July 2007 (EDT)

• Line-in playback: It may be useful if the laptop is able to act as a speaker for another device, like a microphone, CD player, VCR, or musical instrument. This wouldn't require recording -- just routing the audio from the line-in jack directly to the speakers. I'm not sure if the Record activity is the best place for this -- it seems too small a feature for its own activity -- but I can't think of a better one. —Joe 01:01, 26 October 2007 (EDT)

• Filters: Kids may enjoy simple audio/video filters, as commonly found in commodity camcorders (black-and-white, sepia, or psychadelic filters) or recorder toys (pitch shift, flange, robot, or echo filters). —Joe 13:40, 26 October 2007 (EDT)

• Photo/audio link: Tag an audio recording to a photo from the same Record session. This could be a Journal function, but it would be valuable to have Record do it.-Robby 17:23, 16 February 2008 (EST)

• Longer recording of audio: As Flash memory prices continue to fall, Record (or another audio-only activity) should be able to preserve longer conversations. This would be wonderful for oral-history (our-story) or journalism projects for children, especially if they could play back the audio "notes" while using Write to transcribe them or write their stories. -Robby 17:23, 16 February 2008 (EST)

• Longer recording of video: As Flash memory prices continue to fall... -Robby 17:23, 16 February 2008 (EST)

• I'd like to take audio samples at intervals, for example I'd like to capture one minute of audio every hour for a 24 hour period. -Linton 23 February 2008 (EST)

Feedback from children The-User's

Shutter release is hard to operate as configured

OLPC Thailand/Ban Samkha/trial-200705#Some Older Issues

--Chief Mike 07:15, 1 October 2007 (EDT)

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Stop Motion

Animation, IMO is a killer app for the OLPC. Great stop motion animation did wonders for political expression behind the cold wall, still remains a valid art medium, and is a great introduction to visual media production. I've read elsewhere that there are plans to do remote shutter for the microscope app. From what I've seen there is only the suggestion. But for true or even decent stop motion you *Have* to have a hands-off way of activating a shutter. I'll be glad to make an activity or at least content how-to once this is a possibility. Specialization is for Insects 19:46, 2 October 2007 (EDT)

Source availability?

hello Record team, the git source link seem to be broken? what's the best way to get a hold of the source? thanks! -johnhuang

The source is not in git. It is at [1] That is now noted in the main page.