Norpix TroublePix
TroublePix is a powerful, easy to use video recording and management software for use with a single camera. Compatible with many machine vision and scientific cameras and all major camera interfaces.
TroublePix is the ideal video recording solution for many applications where a portable, powerful and easy to use system is required. With TroublePix, you can record, review and cut recorded sequences, and save them on disk in a variety of formats. TroublePix works with a single camera and is compatible with many camera models from all major camera manufacturers.
Applications
- Factory floor troubleshooting
- Biomechanics
- Sports coaching
- Racetrack time-keeping and goal reference
- Microscopy
- Scientific video acquisition
Features
- Compatible with GigE, Firewire, USB, Cameralink, HD-SDI and analogue cameras
- Compatible with 32 and 64 bit Windows XP and Vista
- Records high-speed video directly to PC RAM or hard disk
- Records video in uncompressed or compressed format
- Records video before or after an external trigger signal
- Saves video sequences in a variety of formats (AVI, MPEG, DivX, XVID,MOV,...)
- Automatic saving and naming of multiple video sequences
- Precise time stamping of every image
- Works with laptop, portable and desktop computers
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Direct to disk video streaming
TroublePix is the software for single camera video recording. It has the unique capability of streaming uncompressed video directly to the PC hard disk or disk array at a speed limited only by disk transfer rate and PC bus speed. No special hardware is necessary.
Real-time video compression
Optional real-time video compression with high quality allows recording high speed videos even to slower disks like those used in most laptops.
Event marker and digital IO
TroublePix supports digital I/O through USB or PCI I/O devices for monitoring of digital status signals, and for starting and stopping video recording by TTL signals.
Time stamping
Each image is time stamped by the PC clock with 1-2 ms resolution. GPS receivers are supported for situations where highly accurate time and position information is required.
Pre-post recording
The pre-post module records the video into a ring buffer, constantly overwriting the oldest part. When a trigger is received, TroublePix freezes the video buffer, so that the video before and up to the arrival of the trigger is saved. This feature is particularly useful for capturing rare events occurring at unpredictable time intervals.
Camera support
TroublePix supports many camera models from all major manufacturers, and all major camera interfaces like GigE, Firewire, USB, Cameralink, parallel digital and analogue. See the Norpix web site for an updated list of supported cameras and frame grabbers.
 Supported camera and frame grabber drivers
Optional modules
Colour remapping module
Cameras with 10 to 16 bits of video data are supported by the optional colour remapping module, which maps monochrome or colour video by a user-defined Look-Up-Table (LUT) to 8/24 bits of data, compatible with a PC display and AVI file formats. Typical LUTs are Gamma/contrast/brightness and bilinear (knee LUT) for imaging high-contrast scenery.
The colour remapping module also allows display of monochrome video data as colour images through a user-defined pseudocolour mapping function. This display mode is particularly useful for enhancing small grey-scale differences and for use with thermal cameras.
Motion Trigger module
The Motion Detection Module triggers video acquisition of by measuring the average grey level inside a predefined region or by measuring the change in grey level between the incoming images and a reference image. This module is useful for control of acquisition without the need for an external trigger device.
Accessories
A number of accessories for TroublePix and StreamPix are available for triggering, coordination and synchronization of video recordings.
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Wireless triggering with 30 m range
Remote-control style wireless trigger device with four programmable buttons, which can be used to start and stop recording and for event marking. Includes remote control and USB receiver. |
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Radio Trigger with 100m range
Wireless trigger set with range of over 100 m outdoors. Used in conjunction with the USB IO box as a long range wireless connection between a trigger switch and the PC. |
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USB Trigger and I/O box
USB-connected IO device with 24 TTL ports, which can be programmed for recording control or for event markers. The IO ports can be activated by a switch for manual triggering or connected to PLC outputs for hardware-initiated triggering. |
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Isolated IO box
USB connected IO box with 4 opto-isolated input ports that can be connected to 24V logic signals for triggering acquisition directly from standard industrial sensors or PLC outputs, and 4 relay outputs suitable for driving high-current loads. |
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USB pulse generator
USB-connected pulse generator, which can be used to generate synchronization signals for precise control of camera frame rate. Ideal for use with cameras without programmable frame rate and for synchronizing multiple cameras. Includes 8 IO lines for hardware triggering. |
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Two-channel synchronization controller
The Labsmith LC220 is ideal for precise and programmable timing of video recordings to external events or for synchronizing multiple cameras. Many different timing functions can easily be set up, like frequency division, delay sweep, pulse bursts etc. The LC220 with TroublePix or StreamPix can be used for tasks like:
- Synchronize video recording and analog data acquisition with precisely related sampling frequency and frame rate (several analog samples per image)
- Synchronise slow and fast cameras with fixed ratio between frame rates
- Synchronize video recording to periodic events, e. g. rotating machinery
- Record high-speed periodic phenomena with low frame rate cameras (video stroboscopy)
- Use TTL signals to gate video recording
For more details on the LC220, see
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