Webcam recording

[oburi]

hello all!
I am new here. I have a quick question. I have a friend thats a girl and she recently got a webcam and wants me to view her. I am wondering how I can record the video into any video format(avi or mpeg etc) onto my harddrive??

Thanks Alot!

Oburi

[Jeff]

Snag-it by TechSmith will let you capture any portion of your screen to an AVI file. You can specify the entire desktop or just a specific region (say, your girlfriend's webcam). You'll want to keep the webcam image on top at all times, otherwise it will record whatever window happens to be on top and in the region specified.

Also, make sure you have your girlfriend's permission. In many places, it's illegal to record someone without their knowledge.

[oburi]

hey thanks very much. what format does it save it as? is this program pretty user friendly??
thanks for the reply!

Oburi

[Jeff]

It saves video in AVI format. Snag-it is a great tool from screen capture of any kind. I think it's pretty user-friendly, but then I've been using it for a few years.

It's a commercial program, but there's a free trial you can download to test.

[bazm]

Hi, I'm new here!
Just thought I would mention this facility for screen capture that is fast, effective and FREE;
ScreenHunter 4.0 Free
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[Andy115]

SnagIt has one fundamental flaw, that being that it stops recording after fifteen or so minutes, without any error message. I found this out the hard way yesterday when I was recording a webcam and had a lot which I wanted to keep. Unfortunately, SnagIt simply returned to the main screen and lost all my recordings
i'll give this other program a try, though.

[smoothmove]

must of been a hot cam show you were recording.

dont know what else it would be....lol

[detn8r]

quote:Originally posted by Andy115

SnagIt has one fundamental flaw, that being that it stops recording after fifteen or so minutes, without any error message. I found this out the hard way yesterday when I was recording a webcam and had a lot which I wanted to keep. Unfortunately, SnagIt simply returned to the main screen and lost all my recordings
i'll give this other program a try, though.

Was this the evaluation copy? Because I've had no problem with the commerical copy.

[Fanatic]

As with any video capture, your recording time is usually constrained by available disk space. Is it possible that you ran out of disk space?

[Xrated]

I was gonna say the same thing as fanatic... isnt 15 minutes of snagit like 3 full cds ?