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A project log for Raspberry Camcorder and Video Editing Station

Creating an all in one portable video production set up.

dustinDustin 11/30/2020 at 03:130 Comments

I finally got ahold of some AAA batteries for my bluetooth keyboard, so I can start coding on the Pi instead of on my laptop. I really do need a way to modify the code remotely, but that's a whole new rabbit hole.

Now I'm onto feedback. The program does work, though at a very basic level. It's nearly impossible to tell the state of the system, as there are no recording lights, symbols, or even sounds. I figure the easiest thing to investigate first is just putting screen overlays that DO NOT embed into the video. Back to the documentation for a bit of research, then I'll try out some code and post the results...

After screwing around with the example in the docs for way too long, I've decided to do something else instead. I find it very frustrating how little information there is on this. The default code sets the camera resolution to 1280x720, and I need it at 1920x1080. I'm not familiar with numpy at all, so I'll have to learn all of that too. Too many knowledge gaps, too tired to try.

I did figure out that the example in the docs doesn't work on Python3. You have to replace 

np.getbuffer(a)

 with 

a.tobytes()

 since the first bit of code existed in Python2, and I'm working with Python3. Moving onto the next part, still to be determined.

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