11.1: Capture and Live Video - Processing Tutorial

This video covers the basics of capturing live video in Processing.

From Chapter 16 of Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction

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[timeslongpast]

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[jessicaevans]

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[dapoogunmola]

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The request resolution of 640x480, 30fps is not supported by the selected capture device.
How can I solve it

[rzxcodo]

thank you for your hard working for this tutorial. fan from vietnam <3

[chrisgavin]

I had been trying out some of these Processing/camera things over the span of several months with a couple of different USB cameras with no success at all... On my Windows 10 PC I had loads of trouble getting my device drivers to load properly and ultimately couldn't then get as far as getting Processing to 'find' my camera and deliver any images. BUT... I've finally got my USB camera driver working and just installed Processing 4.0a1 Beta and SUCCESS. These older Processing demos now work, but the video library is newer and now name of the capture camera has to be added into the new Capture line... So in my case I have to change the line to video = new Capture(this, 640, 480, "HD USB Camera") . I hope this helps someone out there!

[techienoor]

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[subhamkumar]

I'm really a big fan of you. I love the way you teach .
I always wanted to do image and video processing but i can't get any good tutorials that teach the basics behind image & video processing. They get started with using the library and functions.
But this tutorial help me a lot and make me enjoy the whole process of learning.
Thanks Prof. Daniel Shiffman for this tutorials .
I also have a request that if you can make a video on video processing by using opencv library then it will be a great help.
And also your typing is quite fast :)
Thanks

[JohnCanniff]

best drawing of a camera ever :) all jokes aside, these vids are excellent.

[cocodoll]

I've been waiting for this channel to come out all my life <3. Thankyou Daniel SOOO MUCH, I read your beginner's guide to Proceesing book and it litterally saved my life. There's just one matter about working with the webcam that I can't seem to figure out; How do you MIRROR the image??? You have a few examples in your book but they all involve editing the image with different effects...So I can't seem to figure out what function I should call out in order for my webcam image WITH NO EFFECTS ON WHAT SO EVER to just simply REVERSE it's self like a mirror??? Thankyou in advance. I deeply admire you <3

[geoffwagner]

wow certainly a playlist that needs some slight refinement in ordering again lol computer vision playlist shouldn't be missing these first two lol was like "oh no no capture, library? oO" it's over here .

[limitlesskode]

I am here today in 2023 to learn this 👌

[roberto]

Processing couldn't find my webcam device, i solved naming the cam as "pipeline:autovideosrc"
like this: video= new Capture(this, 1280, 720, "pipeline:autovideosrc");

[mrair]

the video library seems to bre deprecated in the latest OS from mac, i get the error AVCaptureDeviceTypeExternal

[franciscohanna]

Hi Daniel! Greate video. I have aquestion: What camera were you using in this series? Will a nice webcam do well for image processing with Processing or OpenCV? If so, do you recommend any specific brand/model?

[Ingryd]

oh God!! my video size problems are solved! Thank you!!!

[DeathTrapProductions]

I'm trying so hard to wrap my head around all of this but I'm not very good at coding. Amateur at best. I tried to copy everything exactly but my sketch won't run and access my camera.

[noradzhamfarkhan]

thank you for making it fun to learn. (Y)

[TizedesCsaba]

It is really great, but how can I use the captured image in mousePressed()?! Eg. I want to use it as a background and I want a continuous transparent video on it.

[gameworn]

My integrated web cam seems to be the only camera that will work with Processing. Does anyone else know if other USB cameras will work. I have tried 3 others so far. I am using Processing's graphics to run an underwater ROV . Without the camera, the ROV is blind. My other option is to run a separate video cable, but that in technical terms is, yucky.