If you are tracking a single point…
Use the X,Y as the file name.
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Open a series of frames – say the first 30 frames
Go to frame one
Locate your point of interest with the cursor set to Precise (toggle Caps Lock)
Read the X,Y to whatever precision is useful
Shift+Control+S (File Save As) Type in the X,Y
Control+W (File Close)
Repeat with frame two….
When done you will have your X,Y points available as a directory list
If you are in the Windows environment…
Open a DOS Window
Navigate to your X,Y files directory
execute the following DIR command
dir /on /b > xy.txt
This command will create a text file named xy.txt that contains a sorted list of xy file names.
From here you have several options…
Import into Excel, clip the file extension, parse the remaining into X and Y, run your calcs or export X,Y data for use by another program.
or
Open in Word,
Search and Replace file extension with "", (deletes the extension) Search and Replace "," (comma) with ^t (tab)
Save as X,Y.TXT for use by another program as Tab Delimited data. or
Search and Replace file extension with "",
Save as X,Y.CSV for use by another program as Comma Separated Values data.
Hope this workaround is useful
Mr3
wrote in message
You are correct. I have DV video of a device that is undergoing a fairly
complex motion, and would like to track its position frame by frame. If I can get a pixel output from each frame, I can process the data to generate velocity and acceleration of the object.
I have been totally unsuccessful in finding any software that can do this.
I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions.