Remote movie capture

[jimodoherty]

Hi,
I am thinking of buying PSremote for my Powershot camera, I'm looking for a way to perform remote capture of movies, similar to the image capture. Basically Im doing experiments nwith the camera and I don want to have to go up and down all the time to acquire a movie. This function is not available in the Canon Zoombrowser software, is it available with PSremote???

Any help is appreciated!!!

Jim

[Chris Breeze]

Sorry it isn't possible to capture movies when the camera is in remote mode. This is a limitation of the camera firmware and Canon interface libraries. What you could do is set the viewfinder to video out and then connect the camera's video out port to a video capture card or a VCR.

[jimodoherty]

Chris,
Thanks for the information, I was always wondering was it a limitation due to the camera, or was it simply that they were not interested in controlling the movie mode remotely.

Thanks again

Jim

[jimodoherty]

Chris,
Just in passing, you mentioned that this was a firmware limitation. Does this mean that if Canon develop the remote control over the movie mode, then a new Canon camera I buy now could possibly be updated later on to allow this function??
Ive asked Canon about this issue too a few weeks ago, but they havent responded to me.

Thanks again

Jim

[Chris Breeze]

I will try and include it in PSRemote if Canon make it available via their SDK. I suspect this is unlikely though because movie mode needs a start and a stop command which could result in the camera getting into a strange state if the connection to the PC was lost mid-movie. This is similar to the way that bulb and mirror lockup can't be controlled remotely from the PC on Canon DSLRs.