Volocity is an acquisition and analysis software for Macs and PCs. This guide is intended to give a brief introduction to Volocity acquisition for basic microscope/camera combinations. You can also use Volocity to control automated microscopes for time-lapse acquisition but that is beyond the scope of this guide. Please see the Volocity User Guide for more information. Volocity is no longer being developed by Perkin Elmer so camera acquisition will be migrating with time to Micro Manager.

Make sure the camera is on before opening Volocity, then click on its icon in the Mac dock or double-click its icon on the PC desktop.

Images in Volocity are stored in databases called Libraries. When you open Volocity you must either create a new Library or open an existing Library. I would recommend creating a new library for each session so that you don't lose all your data if a library becomes corrupt. Once you've created or opened a library, click on the Video Preview icon to see the live view from the camera and the video controls.