Maker Robin Bäckman has launched a software program software designed to show a Raspberry Pi single-board laptop (SBC) and digital camera module right into a film-capturing powerhouse with in-body enhancing and audio dubbing: the Gonzo Pi.
“It is a video digital camera with tape and scissors,” Bäckman writes of the undertaking. “Press[ing the] ‘view’ button whereas a scene is chosen will glue all [the] final takes of all photographs in that scene collectively and play it. Press[ing] ‘view’ whereas a movie is chosen will glue all scenes in that movie collectively. No must construct customized case, or buttons, this can work with a Raspberry Pi and any of its digital camera modules, USB keyboards, and USB audio playing cards, a daily HDMI show also needs to be high quality.”
Gonzo Pi goals to show a easy Raspberry Pi and suitable Digicam Module right into a feature-packed digital camera with in-body enhancing and dubbing. (📷: Robin Bäckman)
The Gonzi Pi digital camera system is designed to ship usable footage proper out of the digital camera, placing fast enhancing performance instantly in-body. As Bäckman explains, a press of the “view” button permits all takes in a selected seen to be related collectively, whereas a “retake” operate permits for any given take to be reshot. As soon as footage has been captured, the software program additionally permits for multi-track audio dubbing — capturing new tracks on-demand and robotically mixing them into the shot, scene, or movie with which they’re related.
All the things in Gonzo Pi is designed to be accessible from a typical keyboard, although community management can be out there. Utilizing keyboard shortcuts, it is potential to repeat scenes or photographs, transfer them, paste them, management shutter velocity and publicity settings, management the purple and blue coloration channels, brightness, distinction, and saturation, quantity ranges, have interaction an non-obligatory audio compressor, and even set an audible countdown timer going — or set off a timelapse with customized intervals.
The digital camera software program features a flipped-display mode and timer for self-shot movies. (📷: Robin Bäckman)
Whereas it is potential to make use of Gonzo Pi with no extra {hardware}, Bäckman has additionally designed a customized housing for a show, the Raspberry Pi itself, and the digital camera module and lens, together with an non-obligatory battery to rid your recordings of trailing wires. A customized board to the highest supplies devoted shortcut buttons for the software program’s varied capabilities.
The software program for Gonzo Pi is out there on GitHub underneath the permissive Apache 2.0 license, whereas 3D print information for the case and an non-obligatory viewfinder can be found in a separate repository. Bäckman has additionally introduced plans to promote pre-built variations of the Gonzo Pi, although with out confirming pricing.