How to Use Your Camcorder as a Webcam

Step 4 Start Sharing you Webcam with your friends!

Now you can start sharing your webcam, using Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger.

There are other options to this, but I had a webcam and videoediting card lying around not doing anything so it works for me.

One other option is to use your digital camera as a webcam if it supports a webcam function.

There are also many addons to the TrackerCam software that allow you to remotely control the camera, (ie:zoom and pan) or automatically track moving objects, which would be cool if you were operating a sexcam or were paranoid and wanted to use it as a security camera.

Comments

[bernardnz77]

Good day, I have install already the trackercam but when i use it it says; "No camera selected or the selected camera cannot be used! You can select one or continue without camera. Your camera may be in use by another application;. When i try to open the webcam on my yahoo messanger it says ;"P lease run Trackercam soft ware to use this driver".. please help me what im going to do to get it work.. the model of my video camera is DCR-SR45E.. Thanks and i look forward for your kindly responce. bernard

[wildgift]

Pop open that door where you insert the tape. Leave it open, and it seems to keep the camera on.

[bricoleur]

That is easy, but when I've tried it with several really old analog VHS camcorders, they had built in circuits that cut them off after a few minutes of tape inactivity. Any suggestions aside from putting an endless loop tape in them to fool them into recording forever? The thing is that the optics on a couple that I have are really excellent, but they are useless if they simply shut themselves off.

[Trisho]

to have continuous unit on, please remove your tape and have unit plugged in to AC then it will not shut off I think.

[jesterday]

Well mine was like that too, if there was a tape in the drive, but if there was no tape, then it would stay on.....that would be my only suggestion.