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Author Topic: Program for recording on webcam? Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-17-2007 02:20 PM                     I have a built in webcam on my new HP laptop, but I can't find any program pre installed that will let you record video and audio from the mic onto the computer, does anyone know of a good program that will allow this?  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 02-17-2007 06:51 PM                     I have a camera built into my Macbook, though I've never used it. I have Windows XP and Mac OS 10 installed on it, and I've just tried the camera with Microsoft Movie Maker, which came with XP, and it works fine. Have you tried this? Maybe you just need a driver for your camera? Are you running XP or Vista? Or something older?  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-17-2007 08:16 PM                     It came preinstalled with vista. There's some Windows movie/dvd maker program on it, I'll have to check that out and see if it works.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 02-18-2007 05:45 AM                     We have just one Vista machine at work, (out of almost two thousand) but that doesn't have a camera, so I can't try it. From what little I've seen of Vista it seems to be quite big on the 'multi-media' type of thing, so I'd be surprised if they'd removed a feature which was in XP, unless possibly you have the Business version, rather than one of the two home editions, or the ultimate one. If the Vista was pre-installed then presumably any necessary driver would also be pre-installed.  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-19-2007 11:08 PM                        If movie maker is still built in you should be able to capture footage from a device. If that doesnt work there is always windows media encoder. (free) JJ  |  IP: Logged

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