October 13th, 2010· Now supports most types of high resolution CAM's, alas not all yet.
· New in Setup: select the way that Avacam tries to find available high resolutions of a device
· New in Viewer: Zoom!
· Motion detection improved with: (pro)
· centre focus of movement now has higher accuracy
· trigger modes: 6 new focal points of preference in the image added (trigger modus)!
· noise reduction filter
· New: Snapshot shortcut key added: ctrl+alt+c and F3
· New: True size of the snapshot is shown in the Viewer
· Using "Save As BMP": could sometimes cause error 380; fixed
· JPG True size" : could sometimes cause no true size image to be saved when selected; fixed
· When no filename is used a default filename will be shown
· Last used bitmap type is remembered
· Sometimes a small copy of the picture was shown inside the "True Size" picture after saving; fixed
· Save date/time stamp default format removed space with underscore_ , and date format issues fixed
· Left Side Text logo issues fixed. Renewed Side logo and Pro users can add their own!
· Windows 7 compatible
· Deleting a file in the "Viewer" causes Avacam to freeze; fixed
January 14th, 2010· New: AvaCam Remote Monitoring: FTP access! Automatically upload images to any server on the Internet, LAN, etc. Ideal for remote monitoring and surveillance!! Remote viewing HTML-example is included (pro).
· New: sound when taking AutoSave pictures (pro)
· New: sound when motion detect (pro)
· New: enable/disable sound of Snapshot, Burst, AutoSave, MotionSave (pro)
· New: Viewer now has a quick access button to open "My Documentsfolder
· New: Slide show in Viewer (timing between images can be set from 10ms to 10seconds). To "rememberthe last timing setting you will need to go to Setup and save the settings.
· Tip: Ideal for viewing a large collection of saved pictures as a movie when using small intervals.
· New: in AvaCam.ini section [SaveConfirmation] when set to 1 a save confirmation dialog will be shown in 'MotionSave' when a motion is detected.
· New: in Avacam.ini section [NoInfoDialog] when set to 1 no dialog will be shown during SnapShot save (also during Burst Save, Ending Recording, Errors etc.)
· bug fix: minimizing Avacam in "tiny modewhilst enabling "minimizeshowed Avacam's titlebar only: fixed
· bug fix: AvaCam sometimes "forgotits size and position, hence not always recalling the correct dimensions even after saving: fixed
· bug fix: when capturing was stopped the current image was not copied into the Viewer
May 13th, 2009· Date format changed to YY-MM-DD to allow proper sorting according to saved date
· Bug fix: on some systems the recording stopped after 23 minutes. Fixed (unlimited)
May 11th, 2009· Major Bug fix: program freezes when it lost focus (switching to another application) during recording.
· Totally re-coded Recording module for smoother and much more stable recordings!
· New: Stay On Top > to allow AvaCam to stay on top on your desktop (ideal when using mini mode)
· New: Video size is shown in the Video Sizebutton
· New: Pressing Viewer-button places current screen into the Viewer automatically
· New: Disable/enable audio capture during recording (SetUp)
· New: Use last selected path when using Save As (unless other is specified in INI Pro-Edition)
New: sounds:
· Play camera shutter sound when using Snapshot-button (can be disabled by deleting the file sound1.bin)Registered can copy user1.wav in the AvaCam folder to use their own sound effect.
· Play camera burst sound when using Burst-button (can be disabled by deleting the file sound2.bin)Registered can copy user2.wav in the AvaCam folder to use their own sound effect
Print module totally recoded, debugged and improved with:
· Margins
· 5 paper formats (also letter and legal)
· shows portrait/landscape AND paper size in real-time preview
· save all print settings including the print window dimensions and position
· restore to default
New in Viewer:
· run explorer with icon
· right-click options in Viewer
· two extra video control buttons: go to end of video, go to start of video
· properties, Refresh buttons added
· deleting a file selects the next file in the file List automatically (easier sequential deleting)
· re-arranged some buttons for easier usage
· bug fix: refresh/update when changing path/drive didn't always work
· Disable Confirmation on Delete
· Last folder or option used in main-screen opens associated folder in Viewer
· New during recording: recordingflashing
· New: The motion detection sensitivity levels are increased to 7 (instead of 4)
· Tooltip Burst mode now showing the correct total burst frames
· Setup options re-arranged for easier access
· Save As: type file 'AvaCam Screensize' is now named as 'Scaled Size'
· Improved error trapping and extensive debugging
· Bug fix: rarely failed to connect to the device at first start
· AvaCam shows 'No Connection to Video Device' if applicable
· Change recording thread
· Installation now includes an easy uninstall-icon in the program group
· Some cosmetic changes
· and debugged too many things to mention here
January 31st, 2009· New: "Save As" default folder can be specified (Pro-Edition -> Setup)
· New: "Save As" default way to save pictures: true size, AvaCam screen size (manual set in ini-file)
· New: quick access to Desktop and My Documents folders in the Setup browser
· New: set the maximum frames/pictures per second to be saved when activating "Burst" (all versions)
· Fixed the delayed "save-as" button issue: (image saved was the last captured, not the one when executing "Save As")
· Automatic detect upgrade: your settings are NOT lost when installing new version over the old one.
· Installation option: clean install
· General revision
October 23rd, 2008· New: Burst mode = save 10 frames in one click (take a 10 frame snapshot and saved in snapshot folder. Example: 'Burst19-08-08 14.44.09_frame0001.jpg)
· ...........Burst has replaced the copy button (copy still available in right-click options)
· New: in Viewer-> delete files with DEL-button (no confirmation dialog allowing fast deletion of sequential files)
· New: in Viewer-> size in KB is also shown next to the size in pixels
· New: Disable video compression dialog (shown when recording so user can choose the compression format). When disabled the raw (uncompressed= largest but best quality) format is used.
· New: right click options enables user to start Recording (ideal if Avacam is in Hidden Buttons mode)
· New Pro Edition feature: Write system date & time direct onto the images (JPG/BMP) that are being saved (except in Save As...). Option in setup: "Embed Date & Time onto images"
· bug fix: prevent (right-click) popup-menu options to freeze
· bug fix: forces the main viewscreen to fit the size of the window if larger then default (after restart)
· bug fix: when closing AvaCam when it was maximized the position and viewscreen was not restored
· bug fix: always showing logo after leaving Setup, even if size of screen was too small
bug fix: resized window does not fit video screen after restart:
· bug fix: Viewer-> bug in showing the duration of the video
· bug fix: Viewer-> Clipboard copy -> did not always copy the contents of the viewer
· core enhancements allowing smoother actions
· and other minor changes and fixes
December 5th, 2007· Motion detection! Takes snapshots when motion is detected.
· Record Video with any available compression!
· Viewer improved and enhanced
· Saving edited images in Viewer
· One-click photo effects: de-speckle/smooth, sharpen, invert, flip horizontal, flip vertical, greyscale, brighten, darken, colorize plasma, Enhanced Gamma Blending (drastically improve image quality by merging two or more of the same images = Astronomers tool)!!
· Shows in a label the original image size in pixels
· Open selected file with IrfanView in Viewer
· open folder in viewer of last used save option
· view saved and/or recorded videos (AVIs)
· If Irfanview is installed on your PC, Avacam enables option to copy to Irfanview automatically implemented (also in right click mouse options too)
· Right-click Copy-button will copy image to IrfanView AND Clipboard
· Button to quickly select between available video devices
· Audio format setup
· Enable/disable/change side logo, picture, text with a gif-image when viewing enlarged or full screen
· Filenames saved by AutoSave- and MotionSave features can be changed
· Autosave and MotionSave snapshots filenames optional with counter instead of date/time stamp
· Confirm setup changes to save first time you change something to the settings
· New button styles (8 styles), new slate blue color and improved default colors
· Save As: as image seen on screen (stretched): Select option in Save As dialog: BMP Bitmap Files AvaCam Screensize & JPG Picture Files AvaCam Screensize
· Added shortcut keys
· Improved control multiple cams
· Title bar shows active mode (autosave, timer save, motionsave, recording etc...)
· Message when saving snapshot, edited picture in viewer and saving setup
· Fit/size/stretch switching gave sometimes unexpected results: fixed
· During resize to full screen and restore gave flickering: fixed
· Refresh (framerate) can be now be set lower then 10ms (25ms default instead of 100ms)
· General debugging and improved error trapping for increased stability
· New in Pro-Edition only: Increase/decrease contrast (steps of 10% ,right-click = decrease by 10%)
· New in Pro-Edition only: Set sensitivity of motion detection and focus range
· New in Pro-Edition only: Activate autosave or motionsave with start and stop times (all automatic)
· New in Pro-Edition only: Hide title bar in full screen view
· New in Pro-Edition only: Set maximum and minimum pictures save limit up from 1 to 99999 instead of 9999
· New in Pro-Edition only: All AvaCam paths/folders can be changed with ease using build in explorer
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