HandyAvi 4.2 is a WebCam Tool product from AZcendant.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Use any webcam to make time-lapse, motion-detect, meteor trail planetary or animation movies. Easy to use! Simply start HandyAvi then select the type of movie you want to make (Time-lapse, Motion-detect, meteor trail, Astronomy or Animation). Then use the control panel that comes up to set up and begin making your AVI movie.
SCIENCE: Time-lapse movies let you speed things up such as flowers opening up or clouds moving in the sky. Examples on www.azcendant.com. Time-lapse cameras used to be extremely expensive. Now you can make time-lapse movies inexpensively using a Webcam.
SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE: 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, youd get a much shorter movie showing only the things that HAPPENED in your yard, such as a person, 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.
ASTRONOMY: 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. There are user settings that allow you to take, for example, 100 frames every 10 minutes. This is convenient for making movies of Mars, Jupiter or Saturn as they rotate.
Meteor Trail images: Capture entire meteor trails. Capture lightening bolts too.
ANIMATION: Create your own animated movies.
MEADE TELESCOPE CONTROLS: HandyAvi contains a full set of Meade telescope controls so that both the webcam and the telescope can be controlled remotely. Automatic planet centering system
MOVIE VIEWING: An AVI movie viewer is built-in with continuous or frame-by-frame viewing features.
MOVIE EDITING: Movie editing features are built-in. Select frames, crop frames, make new movies from the original.
UPLOAD: Movies to your web site.
ITS EASY TO USE! Simply start HandyAvi 4.1 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.
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 software 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...
Animation is a new and exciting feature of HandyAvi that lets you make animation videos. The license of this communication software is Free Trial Software, the price is $39.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of HandyAvi, you can buy this communication software.