Capturing photos at regular intervals from recorded footage via iVMS-4200

[guaranexx]

Hello all,

I have some cameras set up at a construction site, which are recording to a DS-7716NI-I4 NVR. I would like to turn the recorded footage for some of the cameras into a time lapse video to show the progress over time. I am wondering if there's an efficient way to extract photos of the recorded footage at regular intervals either via the iVMS-4200 client or through the NVR's web interface directly. Manually scrolling through the recorded footage and capturing photos is quite time consuming, so I'm hoping there is a better way! Any help is much appreciated.

 

[Phil]

Image capture to SD and FTP intermittent

Using NVR and IP cams for timelapse recording

how to make a timelapse with continuous recording, after the fact

so I wanted to do timelapse for my own benefit and while searching i found out that it wasn't that easy. I made this powershell script that prepare everything for you, you need ffmpeg (search for it) if you have any question, let me know. step by step in the header of the file if you see any...

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[Kyle]

Hi @guaranexx,

To my knowledge, it is not possible to set images to be captured automatically.

If you extract the footage, and then play it in Hikvision's VSPlayer, you should have to option to set up "Continuous Capture." This allows you to set the intervals between automatic image captures from the footage. It is all explained in section 2.2.2 (page 7) of the attached manual.

This Pro-Lapse article also seems to suggest that you can do it in VLC player, which is one of the few players that can play Hikvision's MP4 files without needing to convert the file type.

 

[guaranexx]

Thank you both for the suggestions. I'll give these methods a try.