Recording

Camera & Sensor Settings

Now that your camera and sensor are paired, you are ready to click the Record tab and begin recording your volumetric video!

Now that you have paired your camera to your sensor, there are some settings you can change, and other settings which, if changed, will invalidate the pairing.

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Settings you can change

You can change these camera settings

• exposure
• framerate
• shutter speed
• ISO
• white balance.

You can these sensor settings:

• depth mode
• color mode
• exposure parameters - shutter speed & gain
• white balance

You can move/pan/tilt the enitre rig, as long as it doesn't affect the positional relationship of the camera to the sensor. Be very careful if you move the camera at all.

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Settings you cannot change

You cannot change these camera settings:

• focal length or zoom level
• video resolution or sensor crop

You cannot reposition the sensor relative to the camera.

Recording with Depthkit Cinema

Since you are recording high resolution video on your camera, the sensor video will still be needed for synchronizing your footage. When you process your footage, you will use both of these videos to synchronize each take.

Don't forget to record a clap, or slate, for each take as well! This will be needed to the synchronization step up next.

More on this this stage in Processing Cinema captures.

Record Settings For Depthkit Cinema

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Incompatibility with 15Hz Recordings

If you paired your camera and depth sensor using either 3072p 15Hz color resolution or 1024x1024 15Hz depth mode, you will need to change your stream configuration to settings that do not record at 15Hz. If you record your takes in 15Hz, you will not be able to synchronize the sensor footage to the camera footage.

While our recommendation is to pair your camera and depth sensor at 3072p and 1024x1024 for maximum frame overlap with your camera, recording requires different settings. For best performance while recording with the Depthkit Cinema workflow, set your color resolution to 1080p and your depth mode to 640x576 Narrow raw and increase your resolution if your hardware can support it.