Recording Video

You can use Active WebCam to record a stream of full-motion video and audio from your video and audio sources. The program has the following recording features: Live Recording, Archive Recording, and ability to create Archive of Snapshots.

With Live Recording the program records video and audio constantly in a temporary file that allows you pause, fast-forward, and rewind live video from camera at any time.

The Archive Recording is performed when user clicks the Record button. The video and audio content is streamed into a file on your hard disk.

Archive of Snapshots is a sequence of still images captured with a predefined time interval.

Recording Video Clip

• To record a video clip, click Record a Video from the Tools menu.
• To stop recording, click Record a Video again.
• To see the list of recorded files, click Gallery from the View menu.
• To play recorded file double click on it in the Gallery panel.

Customizing Recording

To customize video recording, click Recording Settings from the Settings menu.

Recording Frame-Rate

Use the Frame-Rate box to set the number of frames per second for the video record. The Frame-Rate value can be set from 1 to 30. How much you adjust this value should depend on the speed of computer’s processor and the type of video (high movement versus low movement) the computer is encoding. More frames used per second means that there are smaller changes between frames, which equates to smoother-looking video. The lower the number of frames per second means that there are fewer frames per second to display action, which equates to less smooth or even jerky video. The more frames per second that your computer has to encode, the harder the processor has to work.

Maximum file size
Set maximum size of single video clip.

Minimum disk space
Specify minimum disk space when Active WebCam starts to delete oldest video clips before record new one.

Live Recording

The Live Recording means that the program records video and audio constantly in a temporary file. This process takes some CPU usage, but at any moment you can rewind and playback recorded content. The maximum duration of live content is controlled by the Max. File Size value.

• Click to select the Enable Live Recording check box to switch on the live recording.
• Specify temporary file name in the Live File box.

The file with live recording can be encrypted to prevent its misusing. Select the encryption type from the Encrypt Live File list.

Archive Recording

The Archive Recording is performed when user clicks the Record button, or if a motion has been detected, or if the recording was scheduled at certain time, or the Recording all the time option is selected. The video and audio content is streamed into a file on the computer's hard disk.

Active WebCam saves the recorded clips in a predefined folder. You can change this folder in the Folder for Archives box.

Also you can define how to name the video files in the File Name box. File name may include parameters like time: {hh:nn}, camera number: {CAMERA}, or index: {COUNTER} enclosed in the braces {}. See more info about parameters in the time formatting macros topic.

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