Photron USA, a manufacturer of advanced, high speed imagers, offers Motion Tools, describing it as the only automated slow motion analysis camera control software available.
Designed for use with Photron's PC-based high speed video cameras, the software package is included at no additional charge.
The basic camera control and image replay software includes simple, automatic single-point tracking, or a manual tracking feature that captures one to four points per frame.
Optional modules available with the revolutionary software include a data acquisition module that can record up to 16 channels of external Ascii data from load cells, accelerometers, microphones, pressure transducers, etc.
Up to eight time-synchronized Photron high speed PCI cameras can be simultaneously used to capture 200,000 data samples per second.
The Motion Tools Enhanced Analysis feature can track up to 18 trajectory points simultaneously and display and export the time and positional raw data to Microsoft Excel, for convenient tabular and graphical displays.
Photron's Motion Tools software also has an automatic download module which will trigger the system to save a predetermined number of frames both before and/or after an alarm is received.
It will download the frames and accompanying external signal data (required by the data acquisition module) to any internal or external drive.
Other features include both GPS and IRIG (preferred by the military) timing modules for analyzing and synchronizing millisecond time codes from high speed cameras that are recording from various locations.
Key high speed video frames and/or sequences may be easily labeled with Motion Tools's image annotation feature.
Photron Motion Tools provides both manual and automatic tracking capabilities, multi-format file save and load, simultaneous playback, zoom, scroll bar, reverse, continuous loop, block playback, and synchronous play of multiple images.
Windows NT, 2000 and XP compatible, Motion Tools software package is included at no additional charge with Photron's high speed video cameras, the Fastcam PCI, Fastcam-X 1280 PCI and the Fastcam-X 512 PCI.
