RE: AppleScript and Video Capture?
RE: AppleScript and Video Capture?
- Subject: RE: AppleScript and Video Capture?
- From: "Patrick S. Page-McCaw" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:50:43 -0700
Now all I then need to find an application which is AppleScriptable and
allows image capture to occur.
I can't help you much with the hardware, but once you're plugged into
the FireWire port there are two pieces of software that will get you
home. They are BTV (www.bensoftware.com)and VideoScript
(www.videoscript.com). Both are AppleScriptable, both have cheap
lite versions.
I use VideoScript to capture images from a Sony HandiCam.
VideoScript Pro is my tool of choice since it allows extensive
manipulation of the images. If you only want to capture and put in a
db then BTV is probably easiest. The usual warnings about capturing
'scientific' images using video apply (especially if color).
For hardware you could look into Scion (www.scioncorp.com), which
makes frame grabbers for Mac. They use their own version of
NIH-Image to capture. They may well now also have plug-ins for
ImageJ (freeware from the NIH, rsb.nih.gov??). I doubt that ImageJ
will ever be AppleScriptable.
I hope this helps,
Patrick