Tutorials & Tools for Fastec High-Speed Cameras
Fastec Updates:
Tour of 3.3.x: 3.3.x Update Video
- Image Trigger review
- Review while record
- Gapless FasFire recordings
- Cut-in / Cut-out sync for multiple videos
- Step Controls for MFT lens focus
- FREL overlay (Frame Relative Time)
- Offline CAP file rendering
Image Trigger Setup: IT Setup for 3.3 Video
- %Change / %Area / Reference Frame Interval
- VT Flags overlay (image trigger status)
Enhanced FasFire for HS Cameras: FF for HS_3.3 Video
- FasFire Setup Review
- Live while Saving in FasFire
- Review while Recording and Saving in FasFire
- Gapless consecutive FasFire Captures (no dropped frames between events)
Micro Four Thirds Lens Control Demo: MFT Lens Control Video
- Aperture, Focus, Zoom Sliders
- Swapping Lenses
- Step controls for N/F focus buttons
Frame-Relative Time and Overlay Demo: FREL_Overlay Video
- Review Overlay creation
- Review all Time-related overlays: Source, Time, TimeO offset, SMPTE Time, TREL, FREL
- Graphic Overlay (Grid)
- Tour of 3.2.x: FasMotion 3.2.x Update Video
- New update process for IL, TS, and HS cameras
- Aiming Cursor (cross hair overlay)
- Tab Locks for FasMotion Control pane
- Reference Frame Interval control for Image Trigger
- Enhanced controls for Time Trigger
- Colorize Saturated Pixels
- Focus Assist
- Multi-camera control lock allows changing parameters on multiple cameras
- Autosave Enable / Disable button
- Separate RGB controls in Display / Curves
HS7 Color Demo Video: HS7_Color
- New per-pixel Gain / Offset Calibration (PRNU correction)
Hardware Image Trigger Demo: FasTrigger Introduction Video
- Image Trigger setup
- Ignoring slow-moving objects
- Triggering on a single frame
- Counting objects
High-Speed Camera System Setup and Operation:
Video: TS3 / TS4 / TS5 Touchscreen
- Tour of the menus
- Tapping and scrolling techniques
- Playing back saved videos from SSD
- Find the camera information
- Setting maximum frame rate for a given resolution
- Setting the maximum resolution for a given frame rate
- Restoring previous resolutions, etc.
Video: Saving Configuration Files in FasMotion
- Saving camera parameters (Resolution, Frame Rate, Exposure, etc.)
- Reloading camera parameters
- Selecting the correct Ethernet cable
- Setting up the Network Interface parameters on a PC
Video: Mac Network Interface Setup
- Configuring the NIC
- Configuring the Firewall
Video: Setup UDP Receive Buffer
- Set UDP recvspace to 3MB
- Better transfer performance
- FasFire Image buffer setup
- Triggering
- Saving (CAP files to SSD)
- Recovering buffers as CAP files are saved
- Load and Play saved CAP files
- Loading & Reviewing CAP files in FasMotion
- Batch Transfers
- Cut-in and Cut-out
- Saving AVI files to a Path
- Saving CAP files to the SSD
- CAP files saved to PC may be opened via File/Open
- Trans-coding
- Setting the Trigger Position
- Configuring the Image Trigger
- Enabling the Image Trigger
- Reviewing the results
Introduction to HS-System Image Trigger
- Implemented in Hardware, it can trigger on changes in a single frame!
- Target values written in per frame metadata
- Reference frame interval control allows filtering of low-speed events
- Configuring the SSID
- Opening the camera in the Web-App on a PC
- Ad-hoc (peer to peer) connection
- Connecting to an iPhone
- Using the TS with WiFi outdoors
- Setting up WiFi on the IL via FasMotion
- Connecting to an iPad
- Hawking HWUN4 compatibility
- Limitation of Gamma correction
- Benefits of saving raw image data
- Saving DNG files for best results
Presentation: DVR Hybrid System
- DVR system architecture
- DVR time-lines
- Video demo
- Advantages of high-speed hybrid system
- Definition
- Opening the Histogram in FasMotion
- Color Histograms
- Opening the Histogram on TS cameras
- Image adjustments using Gamma/Contrast vs Curves
- Opening the Curves function in FasMotion
- Saving/Opening Curves on the PC
- Control for Micro Four Thirds lenses
- Part of FasMotion for HS cameras
- Controls Aperture, Focus, and Zoom
Technical Interest:
Presentation: Magnification and Frame Rate
- Definitions of photographic terms
- Relationships between object size, distance, speed and frame rate
- Basic speed comparison
- Motion blur and other distortion
- When the illumination is poor...
Presentation: TS5 vs TS3 (=IL5 vs IL3/HiSpec)
- Application vs formats
- Depth of Field advantage
- Magnification
- Importance of DOF in high-speed applications
- Relationship between pixel size and DOF
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- Lens Focal Lengths and formats
- Resolution and Sensor Size vs Field of View
- Lens format compatibility
Video: Camera Calculator-Depth of Field
- Aperture and focus
- F-Stop definition and
- Definitions of DOF terms: near/far focus, Hyperfocal Distance
- Relationships: DOF / Aperture / Pixel Size / light and sensitivity
- Demonstration viewing fibers
- See also YouTube clip on Mites
- Benefits of Color vs Mono
- Common uses
- Performance differences
Troubleshooting:
Video: Saving Logs via FasMotion
- Fastec technical support may ask for logs
Video: Troubleshooting Trigger I/O
- Setup
- Transceivers
- Triggering Device
- Cable
- IL or TS Camera connected to network, but not seen in "Found Cameras" in FasMotion
- Change IP address to one compatible with connected subnet
- Use camera's MAC address