Re: video input on mac/osx

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Jun 05, 2009; 3:29pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-Basic-question-on-make-movie-plug-in-tp3692257p3692259.html

On Jun 5, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Aryeh Weiss wrote:

> How is video input acquireed with ImageJ on a macbook? I found some
> plugins for specific cameras, as well and a plugin that acquires
> though quicktime. However, I did not understand how to get this to
> work with the built in camara on the macbook. My search of the archive
> on osx+video did not turn up anything.
>
> Having just moved to a mac from windows/PC , there are elementary
> fuctions with which I am not yet familar, so I am sorry if this is a
> silly question.  If I missed it in the archive or on the wiki, please
> send the appropriate link.

The File>Import>Video command (QuickTime Capture plugin) should work
with the built in MacBook camera as long as you run ImageJ in 32-bit
mode by launching the "ImageJ" application instead of "ImageJ64".
QuickTime for Java does not work in 64-bit mode and Java 1.6, which is
used by "ImageJ64", only runs in 64-bit mode. There is more information
about the QuickTime Capture plugin at

      http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/plugins/qt-capture.html

-wayne