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Concept - Video booth with Raspberry Pi

oichapman
oichapman over 6 years ago

I'm interested to use a rPi as a way to record short (30 second) video with audio that'll be stored to a SD card.

 

The use case is that when we got to trade shows/exhibitions that we want visitors to the stand to send messages back to the dev team back in the office. At our event the end user would push a big green button and record a message. In a later version it would be nice to then upload these messages to Linkedin/Twitter (when we have approval), but that's another days problem for now. 

 

Is it better to use an external webcam which handles both audio and video, or to run them separately?

 

I've seen a few threads on here about recording with audio, but they focus more on live streaming which is something i'm not too fussed about.

 

Any advice greatly welcome.

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  • DAB
    0 DAB over 6 years ago

    Check out the Ben Heck Episode where he built a wedding photo RPi.

     

    If you are doing video, you can get both audio and video integrated if you add a microphone and either a RPi camera or a webcam.

     

    DAB

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  • beacon_dave
    0 beacon_dave over 6 years ago in reply to DAB

    Episode 300: Portable Raspberry Pi Photo Booth

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  • korn
    0 korn over 6 years ago

    I made a couple of these rpi based tweeting photo booths.

     

    http://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/march2016_RaspPiDigitalPhotoBooth

     

    its driven by a single python script using pygame. real easy to change.

     

    should be easy enough to change from stills to video clip....

     

    First one was ugly but worked.

     

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    I used a ring led as a "Flash"

     

    My latest case  is more elegant

     

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    A gutted bell and howell movie camera

     

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  • korn
    0 korn over 6 years ago in reply to DAB

    definitely cheaper to use a USB webcam.

     

    You're making me want to go try it......

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  • rew
    0 rew over 6 years ago in reply to korn

    My problem with "cheap" webcams is that you never know what resolution you'll get. Apparently there is no limit to the "you could blow up the image of our cam to XXX megapixels" that can be claimed. I've had a 0.25Mpixel webcam being advertised as 5Mpixel. (at the time I would've been happy with 1.25Mpixels).

     

    My experience is that the webcams that DO have a decent resolution (and optics) are just as expensive as the raspberry camera module.

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    0 korn over 6 years ago in reply to rew

    I know just what you mean I've seen those bloated specs. drives me nuts..I even saw a HD 1080P camera but when down to page six in the specs it says its a 320x200 sensor...

     

    I've used a few Logitech webcams with Zoneminder and once and once you get the capture and sensors resolution matched they aren't too bad... actually better than my NetBotz cameras

     

    I'm thinking cheapie webcam for public photo booths & art installations that might get trashed and keep my good HD cinema cams for other uses.

     

    I do want to try taking the lens off an RPI cam and mounting it to my telescope, I've seen that in a magazine and really like the idea....

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