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I'm testing a high speed camera in Kinovea. I defaulted Kinovea by removing the preferences.xml file.
The delay timer seem to get messed up- I had to set the delay to 10.0 to get 1 second of pre-recording, the end timer seems to work ok i.e. If I set to 10 I get 10 seconds of total recording. If I go below 10.0 on the delay timer it acts like there is no delay. I don't know if its related to the camera. Its a machine vision camera running at 790fps using DirectShow not GenIcam.

I can do a screen recording to show the issue if required.

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If you want to return to default settings you should also delete the content of the "Windows" directory in the preferences as that's where the delay is stored. (and in that case probably delete the "Workspaces" content since workspaces are pointing to windows).

For it to work correctly there must be at least 10 seconds (or whatever is the delay value) worth of images already in the buffer when recording starts so recording shouldn't be triggered before that. Could it be that? This should show in the displayed image as black with a negative timer until it's available. (if configured to show the delayed image).

It also depends on the Recording mode configured in the preferences. Preferences > Capture > Recording > Recording mode and delay > Delayed or Retroactive.

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Thanks Joan,

I'll try to test tomorrow. It was working fine with the UVC camera.

Regards Phil