POV.HD User Manual
Tips and Guidelines
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When the POV.HD begins recording using the
Loop
Record Method
, it gets the Loop Record Time–30 seconds
in this example–and begins recording a segment of that length. When that segment is complete, it is saved
temporarily, and another segment is started. The drawings show the time line divided into 30 second chunks
which correspond to the recorded segments for this example.
When you press Tag to save a loop, the POV.HD saves the entire segment you’re in right now plus the segment
that immediately precedes it and the segment that follows it. This means that if you press tag just after
something exciting happens, you will capture what happened immediately before the tag. When using the
Loop
Record Method
, you don’t need to anticipate what’s going to happen in order to catch everything. Loop
lets you catch things after the fact. Because the
Loop Record Method
also saves the segment immediately
following the current segment, if you hit tag near the end of the current clip you will still get one entire
segment following your pressing
TAG
.
NOTE
: Each time you press
TAG
, the POV.HD saves four separate clips. One for the segment preceding the
current segment, one for the current segment, one for the segment following the current segment, and an
XML file for the tag which created the clips. Each of these is stored as a regular clip file. The figure below
shows the nine clip files that result from the example above. Also note that there are no entries in the ‘tags’
directory.
Loop & Forward
is a combination of the Loop and Clip methods. When you start recording video is captured,
but none of it is saved until the first time you press Tag. At that point, the POV.HD saves a loop just as it would
in Loop, but from that point forward, all video is saved, as it would be when using Clip.
Once you have pressed Tag to start saving captured video, pressing Tag again adds a tag to the clip, again as it
would if you were using clip.
0
2 min
4 min
6 min
8 min
10 min
Start
Recording
Stop
Recording
tag at
00:02:06
tag at
00:05:54
tag at
00:07:1
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Loop & Forward Method
