a looking-glass book

dynamic imaging

had a few talks about this in the last few days. i think i nailed the pieces im building right now, so im starting to think about plugins.

go with this for a moment:

i want to display thumnbails in some different dynamic ways. the ways dont matter.

but if quickly gets complicated.
because when you shoot 30 frames a second, thats a little over 100,000 still frames an hour. which is great, because i want to shoot a good 4, 6, 8 hours of footage a day. so thats somewhere around half a million shots a day.

and im still talking about at least 50 days of shooting.

that would be 25 million images.

thats a lot of images. thats too many images.
storage is an issue. filesystem support is an issue.

does anyone have any ideas how to overcome this?
do i dump 15 frames a second and let the other half disappear [as stills, they will still obviously be in the video]? do i find more clever ways to pull them out using user feedback? do i hope for sensors in the future (ala sensecam) that will recognize the good ones (but what makes good)?

25 million images.
50 million images.

i cant even imagine.