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INTERVALOMETER
TL-1
USER’S MANUAL

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Service, Support and Warranty ------------------------------------------ 2
Product Overview------------------------------------------------------------- 3
Product Use Section--------------------------------------------------------- 5
Medical & Healthcare----------------------------------------------- 5
Scientific & Technical ---------------------------------------------- 8
Animation & Graphics --------------------------------------------- 9
Security, Business & Training ---------------------------------- 10
Creative & Imaginative--------------------------------------------- 12
Installation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14
Key Features ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17
Connection---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18
Control Panel------------------------------------------------------------------- 20
LCD Indicator------------------------------------------------------------------- 23
Specifications ------------------------------------------------------------------ 24
Contents

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Service and Support
It is our goal to make your products ownership a satisfying experience. Our supporting staff is
available to assist you in setting up and operating your system. Please refer to our web site
www.datavideo-tek.com for answers to common questions, support requests or contact your local
office below.
Datavideo Corporation (USA)
12300-U East Washington Blvd., Whittier, CA 90606 USA
Tel: [phone] www.datavideo.us
Datavideo Technologies Europe BV
Californiedreef 263565 BL Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: [phone] www.datavideo.info
Datavideo UK Limited
Unit 2 Waterside Business Park, Hadfield, Glossop, Derbyshire SK131BE UK
Tel: [phone] www.datavideo.info
Datavideo Technologies Co., Ltd.
10F, 176 Jian-Yi Rd, Chung Ho City, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan 235
Tel: [phone] www.datavideo.com.tw
Datavideo Technologies China Co.
2F-D, 2 Lane 777, West Guangzhong Rd, Zhabei District, Shanghai, China
Tel: [phone] www.datavideo.cn
Datavideo Technologies (S) PTE Ltd.
100 Lor 23, Geylang Rd, #01-03 D’Centennial, Singapore 388398
Tel: [phone] www.datavideo.sg

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Datavideo Intervalometer TL-1
A New Tool With Virtually Unlimited Applications
Product Overview
Datavideo’s Intervalometer TL-1 is an easy to use, microprocessor-based DV Bank accessory that
will open up new worlds of creative, scientific, technical and business opportunities for you. Now
you can have unlimited real time control of your production technology and use time more
efficiently and imaginatively.
What’s an Intervalometer? Simply put, a video intervalometer allows the user to determine the
number of video frames the DV Bank records and how often it records them; it enables the creation
of time-lapse video images. Thus, very slow activities (such as clouds moving across the sky)
appear to be speeded up.
Datavideo’s Intervalometer and DV Bank allow you to shoot single frame images, produce
activated or general-purpose interface (GPI) triggered segments, animations and time-lapse
videography. The Intervalometer allows the director/producer to “compress elapsed time” and
gives you nearly unlimited creative potential because the look, style and overall effect of the final
video can be fine-tuned:
Choose how often an image is recorded.
Select the number of frames recorded at each time interval.

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The Datavideo Intervalometer manages DV Bank recording in three ways:
1. Programmed interval time/duration
2. Instant one-frame recording: just press the SINGLE FRAME record button
3. Remote activation using a general purpose interface (GPI)-trigger switch. The switch may
be activated through sensors or a computer program
The Intervalometer and DV Bank can also be used to animate “still” images or objects, creating
“moving” images like in traditional cartoons. Again, the director/producer determines the recording
time interval and the number of frames to be recorded. When the video is replayed at normal
speed (30 fps NTSC / 25fps PAL) the process creates a continuous image that appears to move.
The Intervalometer is exceptionally useful in creating unique opening titles, revealing data on a
chart or for creating an easy to follow instruction guide for a complex process.
Datavideo’s Intervalometer opens up new worlds of creative and technical opportunities enabling
you to pitch new clients and to get involved in new, exciting industries by offering unique, never-
before realized creative and visual approaches to tough business, scientific and technical problems
that have previously defied solution.

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Product Use Section
What can you do with your Datavideo Intervalometer?
The Datavideo Intervalometer is a flexible, dynamic tool for you if you are a videographer or
filmmaker facilitating the creation of a new “look” for your videos, titles, animations, charts and
graphics, while expanding your creative and business horizons. Following are just some of the
uses for the Intervalometer.
Medical & Healthcare
Datavideo’s new Intervalometer is perfectly suited for countless medical and health care uses.
Whether operating in the lab, university, or in a hospital, clinical setting or an operating room, the
Intervalometer provides the doctor, researcher, practitioner, educator and technician the flexibility
to record, visualize, analyze and present medical procedures, data, new protocols and outcomes
clearly, concisely and creatively. With the Intervalometer you can work with or record:
Advance Bioresearch
Adverse Events
Aid Medical Device Design and Analysis
Analyze Procedures
Analyze Sleep Disorders
Assure Pharmaceutical Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Audit Activities
Augment Veterinary Resources

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Medical & Healthcare
Augment Your Medical Research
Automate and Verify Inspections
Automate Outcomes Analysis
Conduct Clinical Trials
Document Operating Room Procedures
Enhance Preventive Medicine
Enhance Safety & Efficacy
Gauge Good Manufacturing practices
Improve Dental Methodology
Improve Manufacturing Productivity
Improve Patient Compliance
Improve Patient Safety and Comfort
Monitor Waiting Rooms
Perform Medical Imaging
Perform Medical Systems Analysis and Review
Pharmaceutical Research
Record In Vivo and In Vitro Testing
Record Therapeutic Consequences
Report Treatment Benefits
Standardize Methodology
Study Human factors
Study New Ophthalmic Protocols
Test for Biohazard Safety
Validate Surgical Procedures

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Scientific & Technical
And, if your subject matter is more high tech than anatomical, the Intervalometer can be
programmed to capture just about any visible chemical reaction, mechanical process, scientific or
natural phenomenon. You can even use it to record paint peeling off the side of an old barn.
You could videotape a special spring rose blossoming for a perfume company. Or, you could
record a scientific experiment determining the pH of a substance in relation to various
temperatures. With Datavideo’s Intervalometer and an external GPI-trigger the you can easily take
a shot whenever the pH reached your target level, at a specific temperature .The Intervalometer
lets you master your subject without being a dependent on pre-programmed time intervals too.
Additionally, with the Intervalometer you can master:
Activity of animals and Insects
Aeronautical Testing
Aerospace Activities
Analysis of Chemical Behavior
Animal Habits and Activity
Astronomical Activity
Auditing Production
Automobile Engineering and Design
Biology Experiments
Birth (Process)
Building Construction
Changes in Sand Dunes, Mountains, etc
Constellations and Planets in the Sky
Decomposition of Matter

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Scientific & Technical
Embryonic Development
Environmental Analysis
Ergonomics Studies
Flight of Birds
Flow of Rivers and Oceans
Flowers Growing and Blossoming
Growth of Crystals
Growth of Plants and Animals
Hazardous Materials Handling & Testing
Human Factors
Lightning Strikes
Machinery Operation
Materials Testing
Materials Weathering
Metamorphosis
Military Hardware
Monitoring Processes
Movement of Animals and
Insects
Ocean Currents
Recording Data
Recording Natural Phenomena
Reporting Cause & Effect
Safety Studies
Snowfall and Precipitation
Systems Analysis
Tidal Changes
Vehicular Testing
Water, Chemical Flows
Wave Activity
Weather Forecastin
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Animation & Graphics
Use the camera to capture images for a flipbook, develop captivating title sequences or create a
unique animated title sequence for an annual shareholders meeting. For example, you could
program the Datavideo Intervalometer to record three frames whenever you press its SINGLE
FRAME button. Using this technique you can slowly build letters and words using tasty-looking
vegetables, triggering each three-frame recording manually. Once you’ve completed the name you
could then reprogram the Intervalometer to automatically record three frames every 10 seconds.
Your final act would be to place a hungry white bunny on the set-up table and let the
Intervalometer record it happily eating all the vegetables, leaving only a clean “plate.” Or you can
create:
A How-to Change a Flat Tire Tutorial
A Montage
A Multi-character Animated Play
A Video of Proper Lawn Mowing Techniques
An Online Video Demonstrating How to Replace a Toner Cartridge
An Opening Sequence
Animated Assembly of a Toy
Animated Charts
Cartoons
Collages
Letters Moving Across the Screen
Moving Lines on a Map
Titles with Block Letters, Letters Forming in the Sand, Handwriting, Old Style type or
Calligraphy
Unusual Effects and Demonstrations Like- Ironing a Shirt

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Security, Business & Training
All organizations, be they commercial, governmental, civic, educational or social have special
needs for video security, documentation, presentation, research and risk assessment that
Datavideo’s Intervalometer can meet. Whether it’s surveillance of a hotel parking lot, market
research, pedestrian traffic flow or the courtroom presentation of an expert witness, the
Intervalometer is flexible enough to be programmed to capture just the data needed, at any time
interval throughout the day or night. Exceptional videos can be produced easily and quickly for an
elementary school “assembly,” for risk analysis experts’ review, or for cadets at the national fire
academy. The Intervalometer is an ideal tool for:
Accident Investigation
Airports and Harbors
Archival Documentation
Auditing Production Lines
CD-ROM Technical Manuals
Cost/Benefit Studies
Courtroom and legal Presentations
Crime Prevention
Determining Optimum Aisle and Display Locations in a Store
Education and Training
Environmental Management
Forensic Analysis and Documentation
Graphical Data

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Security, Business & Training
HAZMAT Incident Management & Safety
Historical Collections
Law Enforcement
Monitoring Employees
Museums and Exhibits
Office Space Planning
Online Tutorials
Parking Lot Management
Pedestrian Flow
Presentations
Product Promotions and Introductions
Product Safety and Defects
Productivity Studies and Monitoring
Public Events
Public Mass Transit Systems
Risk Analysis
Safeguarding Government
Buildings
Schoolyard Surveillance
Stores and Malls
Timed Inspections
Trade Show Displays
Understandin
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Queuin
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Patterns

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Creative & Imaginative
The Intervalometer can also be used to condense existing video to playback in less time. For
instance, if you re-record a 60-minute videotape at:
one frame per second, you’ll end up with a 2 minute long tape
two frames per second, you’ll end up with a 4 minute long tape
three frames per second, you’ll end up with a 6 minute long tape
With Datavideo’s Intervalometer, you can combine different animations and techniques, recording
time intervals, numbers of frames, and existing video together into unique sequences. You can
even use it to “pencil test” your animation or graphic build. You can easily move the camera as you
animate, or between segments, put it on a turntable, zoom in or out, add filters for special effects,
all without changing the subject or lighting. The Intervalometer makes it easy for you to master time
and it encourages you to realize the full, imaginative potential of your creative self and your
technical expertise. It’s ideal for recording:

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Creative & Imaginative
Following People Walking in a
City
Football, Soccer and Baseball
Games
Hot Air Balloon Trips
Movie Production
Music Videos
Parades and Processions
Recording the Fun at Family
Picnics
Roller Coaster Rides
Skate Board Parks
Special Events
Storm Tracking
Studying Ice Melting
Surfers Stories
Tennis Matches
Theatrical Productions
TV Production
Apple Pie Eating Contests
Art Projects
Awards Ceremonies and
Recognition
Baking and Cooking
Bananas Ripening
Capturing Crowds on a Beach
Car Races
Catching Motorcycle Jumps
Checking Out the Fish Swimming
in Your Tank
Clouds Racing Across the Sky
Condensing Length of Existing
Videos
Documenting People in a Stadium
Documenting Snowboarders
Crashing
Examining People Moving on an
Escalator
Family Car Trips & Vacation
“Albums”
Family Heritage Projects

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Installation
Equipment Needed
Datavideo Intervalometer TL-1
Datavideo DV Bank DN-100
DV Camera or Video Playback Deck
Optional- Datavideo DAC-100 Bi-Directional DV to AV Converter; if analog video camera
or existing analog video tape is used
Optional DDC1215 Battery adapter for the DV Bank and Intervalometer
Step 1: Equipment Set-up
1. Disconnect power supply from DV Bank; connect the Intervalometer into it using the D-Sub
9-pin interface cable (supplied).
2. Reconnect power supply to the DV Bank; it will automatically run through a system check;
the illuminated buttons on the right front of the unit will flash. When the test is completed,
press the POWER button on the DV Bank.
3. Using the UP and DOWN arrow buttons on the front of the DV Bank, choose the file
(number 1-99) to store the digital video.
4. Set-up your tripod and video camera, frame and focus it on your subject.
5. Connect the DV Bank to your DV camera using an IEEE 1394 (Firewire) cable.
6. Connect the DV Bank to your video monitor, turn the monitor ON and select the
appropriate mode for reviewing the video stored on your DV Bank.
7. (Optional) You can connect a wired remote (GPI) trigger to the back of the Intervalometer if
you wish to record frames either manually or through a sensor, switch or other electro-
mechanical device.

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If you are using an analog video camera, connect the DV Bank to a Datavideo DAC-100
Bi-Directional DV to AV Converter and then connect the video camera to either the S-
video or Video “IN” jacks (RCA) on the front of the DAC-100. Connect the DV Bank to
the DAC-100 with an IEEE 1394 (Firewire) cable.
Step 2: Programming the Intervalometer
a. Choose the interval timing by pressing either the HOUR, MINUTE and/or SECOND button
and then press the UP or DOWN arrow buttons to select the time interval for recording.
b. Choose the number of frames you wish to record at each interval by pressing the
DURATION button and then press either the UP or DOWN arrow button to choose the
number of frames to be recorded at each time interval (between 1 and 29 frames).
The Intervalometer uses the Datavideo DV Bank as its power source. Intervalometer
settings need to be programmed every time power to the DV Bank is turned off or
interrupted.

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Step 3: Using the Intervalometer
1. Press the RECORD button on the front of the Intervalometer. The Intervalometer will begin
timing the session and when the appropriate time interval is reached it will send the pre-
selected number of video frames (images) to the DV Bank1.Recording will continue
indefinitely as long as the camera, DV Bank and Intervalometer are connected and have
power.2
2. When you’ve completed your recording session, press the STOP button on the front of the
Intervalometer.
1. The light of DV Bank’s RECORD button will flash once for each frame recorded in its
memory.
2. During recording, the frame counter on the Intervalometer display will advance every time
a video frame is recorded and the time code in the DV Bank LCD display will advance in
unison as well.
Blooming Flower Monitoring

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3. To review the video stored in the DV Bank press the MENU button until
SETUP/LOOP/PLAY appears on its LCD screen. Select this mode by pressing the UP
arrow button under the LCD screen, then press it again to “ENABLE LOOP PLAY.”
4. Press the PLAY button on the front of the DV Bank and the frames you recorded through
your Intervalometer will play back on your video monitor.
The Intervalometer can also be used to record one frame at a time using the
SINGLE FRAME button on the front.
Key Features
Easy to setting the Interval time between 00:00:01 ~ 23:59:59
Can get a single frame
Snapshot when Interval
Key Lock

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Connection
Notice᧶
Prior to connect TL-1 to DV Bank᧨please un-plug the DV Bank DC power
input jack to ensure proper power on procedure.
System connection
TL
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IEEE 1394 FireWire Cable
GPI Trigge
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DV Bank
DV Camcorder

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Connect TL-1 to DV Bank
Connect a wire remote GPI trigger adaptor
GPI Trigge
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