Apertus combines Open Hardware and Free Software to build a camera package that is able to record digital cinema formats at high quality standards. It is based on Elphel's free software/open hardware cameras and custom-developed software and hardware.
| Tags | Digital Camera Video Capture |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Platform Independent |
| Implementation | Java C++ HTML PHP |
Last announcement
Hola amigos, February is upon us, and so is another news update for the Apertus Project.
Our new Project Leader, Sebastian Pichelhofer, has crea...
Recent releases


Release Notes: The live video stream player was switched from mplayer to VLCj, and this helped to reduce video latency from the camera down to almost realtime (20-40ms, below exposure time of a single frame at 25fps). The video playback GUI to review recorded clips was started. Another big progress is that we have completed our The JP4 RAW to DNG converter was completed, and a GUI was created for it.


Release Notes: The ElphelVision viewfinder software now has a professional realtime histogram as well as even more parameters and settings that can be configured. JP4 RAW recording is also possible now, but the Mplayer plugin for live demosaicing of the RAW video for previewing has not yet been implemented.


Release Notes: The ElphelVision viewfinder software passed its first 30 commits and is already able to display a live video feed from the camera under Windows and Linux, as well as receive image metadata, send commands and parameters to the camera to change exposure time, and start/stop video recording. There are two new videos available on the Apertus Videos page.