Anyone know of a security Camera overlay for a DAZ camera?

billyben_0077a25354

I am trying to do a render of the Confinement Hall with a guard and a prisoner from the perspective of one of the two surveillance cameras on the confinement hall.  I want the image to appear to be coming from the security camera.  I know of a couple of products that have a point of view camera for a cam corder but do not know of a point of view camera for a security/surveillance camera.  Thanks in Advance

WendyLuvsCatz

https://www.psdbox.com/tutorials/realistic-security-camera-effect-in-photoshop

billyben_0077a25354

Wendy_Carrara said:

https://www.psdbox.com/tutorials/realistic-security-camera-effect-in-photoshop

Thanks, but I don't have Photoshop

FSMCDesigns

If you are just trying to get the camera in the scene to act like it is the security camera feed, you don't need any product. just select the camera in the scen as your viewpoint and move/rotate ir around to match the view of the security camera. To get the fisheye, camera look, just play with the focal length.

is this the look you are going for?

WendyLuvsCatz

I don’t have Photoshop either but can do similar things in Gimp or any other image editor 

its called postwork

JazzyBear

You can do that overlay in windows paint and apply it to a plane! If you want you can even parent it to the camera so if u move it it will always be in place.

You need the main readings/numbers and an oppacity that is set to mostly clear space for the picture to show thru.

billyben_0077a25354

FSMCDesigns said:

If you are just trying to get the camera in the scene to act like it is the security camera feed, you don't need any product. just select the camera in the scen as your viewpoint and move/rotate ir around to match the view of the security camera. To get the fisheye, camera look, just play with the focal length.

is this the look you are going for?

That is close but I was looking to add a [REC] icon on screen, maybe a red dot Icon, and a time stamp.  Trying to avoid having to do a bunch of post work on multiple images

Wendy_Carrara said:

I don’t have Photoshop either but can do similar things in Gimp or any other image editor 

its called postwork

I can do it in post work but Paintshop Pro is kind of Meh to do post work in and I never got the hang if Gimp.  While I am still a hobbyist, I refuse to spend $30.00 or more of my limited  graphics/hardware budget on Photoshop CC but I may have to breakdown and buy it if I get serious (commissions, comics, etc.).  Maybe once I can get my new rig bult with a couple of RTX 2080 TI's (or maybe a Quadro Pro RTX 5000 if it will play well with DAZ), then I will think about subscribing my life away to Adobe.

P.S. the reason I mention a Quadro Pro RTX 5000 is it is actually cheaper to get the 5000 rather than get two RTX 2080 TIs on Amazon right now.

WendyLuvsCatz

well if you have lots of images use a video editor and treat them as an image series and apply a png overlay in that

McGyver

If you go to my ShareCG freebie gallery, I have a (crappy) model of a handheld mini video camera which includes a couple of PNG overlay icons so people can customize their screens...

http://www.sharecg.com/v/67916/gallery/11/Poser/HD1000_MiniCam

They are more for a video camera, not a security camera, but you are welcome to see if they useful.

Somewhere on my computer I have similar ones for a security camera I made for a set I never finished, but I really wouldn’t be able to look for it until tomorrow evening, and you probably aren’t interested in waiting that long.  I don’t really even remember what the difference is between the graphics, it might just be the addition of “Cam 1”, “Sector 4” or some other nonsense... 

I think (pretty sure) what you mentioned might be included with the mini-cam though...

Good luck.

 

billyben_0077a25354

Thanks everyone for your help and answers.

chris-2599934

billyben_0077a25354 said:

I can do it in post work but Paintshop Pro is kind of Meh to do post work in

Paintshop Pro is fine to do postwork in. I have PSP X7, and it's all I use, besides occasional forays into GIMP for a few things it can't handle.

In this case it would be great, because (unlike a lot of photoshop alternatives) it handles vector graphics as well as raster ones. Create a vector layer to sit on top of your original image, create text objects in a suitable font for your timestamp and other overlays, and you're done. You can do multiple images by copying that layer from one image to another and editing the vector text accordingly.