Beer Forum

Hello.

I just got myself a cheap USB endoscope with build in LED lights and was planning on hooking it up to my netbook (running win 95) so that I could film a fermentation.
I was thinking of doing a timelaps over the span of time the visual fermentation takes place and I wanted to hear if anyone else had done this and what software they had used.I was hoping that there was some software where I would be able to time to, for instance, take 5 min of video every hour and then store the file so that I could edit it all together later on. Anyone know of such a software or have some recomendations?

Go Nutters!

I don't think anyone makes any software that will run on win 95 anymore.

Well I can always hook it up to a laptop running Win 7 in stead....

The guy I know that does time lapse uses cameras first, then downloads it onto his computer for editing. You doing full light on this and planning on it not being a drinker?

I am not planning on lighting the beer with any external light source, just the light in the endoscope head. There are only four LED's in the 10mm head so they are not giving out a whole lot of light considering the size so the beer should be fully drinkable, all considered.

But the guy you know uses an ordinary handheld camera I take it for this?

He's the same guy that does the Better Beer Authority review shows that I've been doing for the last 10 months or so.

This shows some of his set up as well as the going through some of his top time lapses.

Northern Brewer has done this. Maybe you could reach out to Chip Walton, if he is the one who filmed it, and find out how he did it.

Just be sure to have earplugs ready in case he starts his reply with some theme 'music'.