Kessler MOTION CONTROL: Oracle Controller Full (3.02 SL) - Manual (Page 17)

TIME LAPSE & STOP MOTION WITH ORACLE™
MOTION CONTROL - OVERVIEW OF THE MODES
Live record
Use this mode to record your motion then play it back in real time.
You can record 25+ minutes of movement in each memory bank.
Smart Lapse™
SmartLapse™ is a remarkable method of recording a non-linear path in
real time. You then play the path in any time span from the time you
it took you to make the recording up to 29.5 days. Smartlapse™ works
by pulsing the power out in .05 second bits and recording each bit
rather than streaming smooth power like in live mode. Then, when
you want to play this recording back we simply replay each pulse back
but with varying delays biased off of your over all time of playback.
Because you are only able to record 10 steps per second it is
important to move as slow as you can to create the smallest possible
“movements” per pulse to give you a very smooth play back.
Continuous
This method will allow the camera to take pictures while the cart is
in motion to give more of the “film” or “video” look to your time lapse.
(Please see Shoot - Move - Shoot vs Continuous on page 39)
Shoot - Move - Shoot
This method of time-lapse shooting will interleave your
picture taking and movement. The camera first takes its
picture. Next the head or slider will then move, stop, then
the camera will take the next picture. This method will give
your time lapse more of a hyper real or stop motion look.
(please see Shoot - Move - Shoot vs Continuous on page 39)
Note: You may notice that when you go to adjust how many
pictures you want to take the number of pictures jumps in odd
increments. This is because when you created your path in
SmartLapse™ you have determined the amount of moves so the
Oracle™ will only allow an amount of pictures that can be evenly
divided into the amount of moves that you have made
with a max amount of pictures to be 2 pictures per pulse/
move. Any more than 2 pictures per will play back choppy.
EXAMPLE: if you recorded a move that took 2000 pulses the
maximum amount of pictures will be 4000 with 2000 or lower
providing the smoothest playback.
Stop motion
This method is identical to Shoot - Move - Shoot but will only
take one picture at a time. Once the first picture is taken the head
or slider will move into the next position and wait until you are
ready to take the next picture. Once you are ready simply press
enter and the cycle will start over until the complete path is finished.
No Intervalometer
This mode will simply turn off the intervalometer while the motion is
ran.
Advanced Mode
With advance mode you will be able create a cycle. Within this cycle
you will be able to control how long a motor comes on for, how long it
will stay off for, what power it will run at when it is on and how many
times this cycle will repeat. You could use this mode for something as
simple as telling a turntable to turn on for 1 hour at speed 50 then shut
off and only have one cycle. To creating an string of thousands of micro
pulses in durations of 50 milliseconds each to create a time lapse. Or even
to turn on for a calculated amount of time that will equate to 8 equal
moves of rotation and to take a picture at each position to create a 360
degree panoramic.
When in advance with Shoot - Move - Shoot, the number of
pictures will not be limited like it is when shooting shoot move shoot in
SmartLapse™ be case the amount of moves will not be predetermined.
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