My old webcamera becam a useless piece of plastic junk when no Win7 64-bit drivers came out for it so I bought a new webcamera and what a fancy webcam it is!
A Logitech C310 [http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/webcam-communications/webcams/devices/7076] - fully HD capable (720p), terrific sound quality and enough features, filters and modes that will make Apples photobooth want to hide in shame.
Happily walking home knowingly that I will be playing with my fancy shiny brand new webcamera I just couldn't wait the moment I would be fiddling around with home-recordings in glorious 1280x720 pixels.
I shove in the webcamera, the computer connects to the Internet and download the drivers automatically, neat!
I boot up Windows Movie Maker and start to capture video from and.... what's this... No HD support?! Alright! Alright! No need to panic. I start the latest version of Windows Movie Maker - named "Windows Movie Maker Live!". Let's see here.... what the F¤!#, No HD support?!
Uuuhm... Ooookay. So I download the latest VirtuaDub and guess what... no HD support.
Now I'm starting to get pissed. I look at the manual to make sure that the camera CAN do 720p. Says on on the package, says so on every homepage that has the specification and information on the webcamera. My eye glances at the CD that comes with the webcamera. A program called "Magix" comes on it. I install it and.... guess what.. no HD support.
So I spent 4 hours yesterday trying to find a reasonable program that can support capturing my now useless HD camera but to no avail. I managed to FORCE Vdub to record in 1280x720, but the recording stutters like crazy and the image looks pixel-y, grainy and blown up and the audio is 5 seconds off sync with the picture.
Believe me. There is nothing wrong with my computer. This computer is a shiny brand new PC that I built myself with among one of the highest of high-end components [http://picasaweb.google.se/lh/photo/pE4nsTqBs0j1Fuc5xGFDCKg6C_9CHoojRJtJjgUwjYA?feat=directlink]. If it can run Bad Company 2 at the highest setting possible at a stable 70 FPS it can damned well record 720p material on the fly.
Disappointed, scarred and angstfilled I shoved the webcamera back into its box and I'm seriously concidering returning it and buying a cheaper webcamera that doesn't have HD support, because what is the bloody point of having a HD camera if no software supports it?
And please don't tell me that I need to get a high-end Professional video recording software such as Adobe Premiere that costs $1k USD and a 6 months course to even understand the basics of it because that is not an option.
I guess if there was only one sentence on my mind... it was "Welcome to Video Hell".
A Logitech C310 [http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/webcam-communications/webcams/devices/7076] - fully HD capable (720p), terrific sound quality and enough features, filters and modes that will make Apples photobooth want to hide in shame.
Happily walking home knowingly that I will be playing with my fancy shiny brand new webcamera I just couldn't wait the moment I would be fiddling around with home-recordings in glorious 1280x720 pixels.
I shove in the webcamera, the computer connects to the Internet and download the drivers automatically, neat!
I boot up Windows Movie Maker and start to capture video from and.... what's this... No HD support?! Alright! Alright! No need to panic. I start the latest version of Windows Movie Maker - named "Windows Movie Maker Live!". Let's see here.... what the F¤!#, No HD support?!
Uuuhm... Ooookay. So I download the latest VirtuaDub and guess what... no HD support.
Now I'm starting to get pissed. I look at the manual to make sure that the camera CAN do 720p. Says on on the package, says so on every homepage that has the specification and information on the webcamera. My eye glances at the CD that comes with the webcamera. A program called "Magix" comes on it. I install it and.... guess what.. no HD support.
So I spent 4 hours yesterday trying to find a reasonable program that can support capturing my now useless HD camera but to no avail. I managed to FORCE Vdub to record in 1280x720, but the recording stutters like crazy and the image looks pixel-y, grainy and blown up and the audio is 5 seconds off sync with the picture.
Believe me. There is nothing wrong with my computer. This computer is a shiny brand new PC that I built myself with among one of the highest of high-end components [http://picasaweb.google.se/lh/photo/pE4nsTqBs0j1Fuc5xGFDCKg6C_9CHoojRJtJjgUwjYA?feat=directlink]. If it can run Bad Company 2 at the highest setting possible at a stable 70 FPS it can damned well record 720p material on the fly.
Disappointed, scarred and angstfilled I shoved the webcamera back into its box and I'm seriously concidering returning it and buying a cheaper webcamera that doesn't have HD support, because what is the bloody point of having a HD camera if no software supports it?
And please don't tell me that I need to get a high-end Professional video recording software such as Adobe Premiere that costs $1k USD and a 6 months course to even understand the basics of it because that is not an option.
I guess if there was only one sentence on my mind... it was "Welcome to Video Hell".
