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• Due to differences in firmware between .AS cameras and normal cameras a checkbox and exposure setting have been added to the Auto Capture settings tab. The .AS cameras have a firmware limitation on the maximum auto exposure limit which prevents the auto exposure from compensating for correct exposure on transition to dark. For this reason users with this camera type can select the checkbox indicating they are using a .AS camera and put in their preferred exposure time (in seconds) for evening capture and the software will now use this as the exposure setting instead of forcing the camera to auto exposure mode.
• The auto capture frequency has been changed to seconds instead of minutes to allow for more frames to be captured during a night and allow users to be able to select a combination that allows for a continuous capture without gaps to give smoother looking time lapse and prevent missing of events.
• Fixed issue requiring the user to manually remove old version before running the installer. The updater should now be working correctly.

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• Windows 10 now provisionally supported. This is still in the testing stages hence this being a beta release.
• ffmpeg program updated to the latest version
• updated driver package for TIS cameras

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• Resolved an error where some users experienced issues with the programming crashing after the loading screen.
• Added additional error logging to better support users with any bugs.

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• Some users have reported that the software crashes after the splash screen. This is due to a driver issue and may be resolved by downloading the package here and installing only the 2015 items. Alternately if this does not resolve the issue there will be a new release which resolves this during May.
• Microsoft altered their repository and as such the automatic installer package for .NET 4.5 no longer links to the correct location. If you do not have .NET 4.5 installed then download the Offline or Web Installer versions before attempting to install Sky Cam. New repositories will be included with the next release.
• The software was designed to take advantage of the auto exposure and auto max exposure functions available with the latest drivers however it has been brought to my attention that the older .AS cameras have a limitation of 0.5 seconds on the auto max exposure setting. This unfortunately is locked out in the firmware and TIS have refused to make any changes to the firmware to remove this limitation. Users with cameras operating this firmware will need to manually adjust the exposure settings during transition to darkness after setting of “Auto Capture” for the moment. A future release will include some additional options for users of the .AS firmware which will allow them to set a fixed exposure time that the camera will switch to when the solar altitude drops below pre defined values. This will however mean some periods of under exposure during the transition until the maximum set exposure value is reached.
• Previous unhandled errors would cause the software to close without warning or error messages. New error handling will be implemented to the next release which will catch any previously unhandled errors and report them to the user and write them to a log file which will help in resolving any issues in the future.

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• Added image processing feature to allow the user to transform collections of still images into mp4 videos using H264 codec.
• Added video quality slider to enable the user to limit video quality for smaller file size.
• Software is now a stand alone installation and no longer requires the previous installation of IC Capture or IC Imaging Control
• All auto capture images now share the label “SCAImg” followed by their sequence number to enable full cross compatibility with image processing to mp4
• ffmpeg.exe is now bundled with the installation for image conversion to mp4

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