Behavioural video filming

Behavioural video filming

This page describes how to setup video filming for behaviour and how to use the system when doing behavioural sessions.

Hardware and equipment

We use triggerable infrared The Imaging Source USB cameras, in particular the DMK 37BUX273. Other models with comparable specifications could also work. These cameras are compact, light, easy to use.

We usually do video data acquisition on a separate PCs with SSD drives (that are not the system C:\ drive) SSD considerations:

• sufficient SSD storage e.g. 4Tb or higher
• SSD write speed higher than the data stream requirements of one/two/more cameras for a specific combination of image type, image size, frame rate, etc. SATA III drives or better work. Several SSDs can also be used in parallel, if needed.

Setup