BTV Pro for Mac

From Ben Bird:

BTV Pro is an application for the Macintosh that allows you to view, capture and edit video, create stop-motion animations, and also has advanced capture features such as frame averaging, time lapse and motion detection. It works with any Macintosh compatible video input source such as video input cards, TV cards, built-in video, USB, and FireWire video sources.

Main features

• Works with any Macintosh compatible video input sourc
• View live video in a window or full-screen
• Play back movies in a window or full-screen
• Capture video to disk as a standard QuickTime movie using custom compression settings
• Capture frames of video to disk in many different file formats (PICT, JPEG, TIFF and more)
• Advanced video capture features
• Powerful time lapse capture feature
• Motion detection capture feature
• Easily add frames of video to movies with custom compession settings - ideal for animation
• Frame averaging feature to eliminate noise in still image captures
• Edit movies using simple copy-and-paste and click-and-drag commands
• Floating Frame Position window that shows time code and frame count
• Export movies with custom compression and frame rate settings, and filters
• Output DV video over FireWire to a digital camcorder
• Channel changing on ixTV and TurboTV tuner cards
• AppleScript support
• Includes the macgix LiveCam AppleScript to turn BTV Pro into a Webcam application

  What's new in this version:

  • New feature to add the image of a clock to frames in timelapse and motion detection
  • New feature to make a movie out of a folder of image files
  • New floating window that displays a count of frame captures
  • New onion skin feature for helping with stop motion animation
  • New "Movie Information" window that shows useful information about a movie
  • Much more efficient motion detection
  • New AppleScript command to set the recording time limit
  • New shortcut key to add a frame to a m... See all new features