In about 2003 with my G4 tower I used a great little bit of software called BTV from https://www.bensoftware.com/ It had a motion detection feature which at the time I couldn’t find elsewhere.
When my new ‘neighbours’ moved in recently I looked around the app store for something FREE to do motion triggered recording and didn’t find what I was looking for…
The app records video (Image only) in h.264 at the native framerate and size of the source.
It’s all in one window with a couple of UI controls.
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Drag and Drop the folder where you wish to save the recordings.
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Select the input camera source with the button to choose from a cyclic list of all devices found on the system.
It should just start doing it’s thing automatically until you quit. It will record clips of 4 seconds or longer if motion is still being sensed. -
Adjust the motion sensitivity slider, + for more sensitive, - for less.
The sensitivity slider should compensate for low light levels and small movements such as a light wind in the trees.
I hope it works for you and is reasonably foolproof.
Thanks to @howie @Bodysoulspirit @keithlang et al
Motion Detection Video Recorder.vuo (29.1 KB)
Motion Detection Video Recorder.zip (1.89 MB)