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HighlightCam works when there's continuous motion. Even at a busy party, the algorithm would pick out when people talked in front of the camera or some guy fell off a table. Think of it as smart time-lapse, rather than just a collection of motion-heavy segments.

Oh yeah, and we also take audio into account.

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Is there an example of the busy party scenario? It is difficult to see what you mean from the video on the home page or the video on the about page.

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Actually, our Justin.tv page demonstrates what processing of high-motion videos looks like (source vids are 5mins long):

http://www.highlightcam.com/justin.tv/

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The About page video is 60 minutes long, with motion for maybe 30 minutes. The highlight video is 50 seconds of the most interesting motion.

http://highlightcam.com/about/

The threshold adjusts automatically, so you'd get just under a minute for both one rabbit twitching its ears, or 30 rabbits getting a bundle of carrots.

Yeah, we should really find a good non-confidential party demo :> Maybe we'll film a party this weekend?

Got it. I imagine it is rather difficult to put together a demo for this kind of thing without trying one's patience. Definitely having a video of motion vs. interesting/highlighted motion would be convincing to both tech and non-tech individuals.

Yes, if this is your first TC article have a party to celebrate that.

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