Recording with iSight

[zforrester]

I was wondering if there are any apps out there that use isight to just record video, like a security camera type thing.
any suggestions?

 

[ravenvii]

iMovie can do that.

Eats up massive amounts of HD space, though. Maybe there's a better program out there for this purpose that records in a lower quality to conserve HD space.

 

[condor]

Quicktime Pro also lets you record video directly with your iSight.

 

[mrichmon]

I was wondering if there are any apps out there that use isight to just record video, like a security camera type thing.
any suggestions?

EvoCam allows you to record. A few other applications are out there. The article at http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/23/more_isight.html and the first two linked pages in that article give an overview of some of the main non-chat iSight applications.

 

[zforrester]

EvoCam allows you to record. A few other applications are out there. The article at http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/23/more_isight.html and the first two linked pages in that article give an overview of some of the main non-chat iSight applications.

wow, thanks guys, awesome stuff.

 

[emw]

The iVeSeen application looks pretty interesting. Does anyone have any experience with it? It would be nice to have an inexpensive video recording application I could use to send "video mail" to my kids while on long business trips.

 

[ITASOR]

The iVeSeen application looks pretty interesting. Does anyone have any experience with it? It would be nice to have an inexpensive video recording application I could use to send "video mail" to my kids while on long business trips.

iVe used it. I no longer have it, but it was great when I did! You can change the quality to a preset "e-mail" setting so that the files would be small enough to e-mail! All the programs Boinx makes are awesome...especially iStopMotion!

Oh yeah, for for iVeZeen...at $14.99, you can't beat it!

 

[live4ever]

QuickTime Broadcaster can capture and encode to all the QT codecs, instead of capturing to DV (which is like 13 GB/hour) with iMovie.

Gives you nice small files in one step, if you don't want to buy QT Pro.

 

[emw]

iVe used it.

Nice

Glad you liked it. As you say, for a mere $15, it seems like a nice thing to have around. Thanks for the input.

 

[dan-o-mac]

GCam works great and it's free! http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/13240

 

[emw]

Doesn't appear that GCam is still supported or available