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Capture video using your computer's webcam and save it to your hard drive

Capture video using your computer's webcam and save it to your hard drive

Vote: (433 votes)

Program license: Trial version

Developer: Noel Danjou

Version: 9.23-build-300.6

Works under: Windows

Vote:

Program license

(433 votes)

Trial version

Developer

Version

Noel Danjou

9.23-build-300.6

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • You have a dead simple interface that makes it easy to navigate.
  • You can capture the video straight from the webcam.

Cons

  • If you choose to do video files, they will take up a lot of space.
  • No support for the automated snapshots.

Ever wished you could capture the video source recorded by your webcam? You could keep your favorite with you all the time this way, and through Amcap, you can save the information to your hard drive so that it stays there. Amcap easily records videos to the hard drive, and you can save them in either AVI or MPEG2 format. This provides you with the codecs so that you can make it happen.

Interesting Options with Amcap

This system features plenty of enriching features that hands you a variety of options like adding special effects to your images and taking screenshots. Some of the special effects include alpha-blending, graphic overlay and transparency. However nice Amcap might be, it does have a couple problems. For example, it can be somewhat deceiving at times. Perhaps it's because you see one thing and expect something else, but the webcam monitoring tools look different to what we thought we'd have. Another problem was how we didn't honestly find Amcap useful because it doesn't even automatically take screenshots based on lapses in time. At that rate, you might as well snap the picture yourself using the screenshot button and copy and paste it. In that way, you're making use out of software that you already have, and you're not letting this software take up more space on your hard drive. That brings us to the next point: The video file takes up so much room on your hard drive, so you shouldn't download this software unless you have plenty of hard drive space available.

Why Should People Use Amcap?

You should use Amcap if you want a simple tool where you can capture videos on your webcam. For example, perhaps you're Skyping with your friends and family. You might be deployed while working for the military, and you can record your favorite moments with the family to replay them even when you're on duty. It works for almost whatever purpose you might have. Those on the lookout for a webcam monitoring app, we recommend looking somewhere else instead because this software probably won't satisfy you.

What is Amcap and How Does It Work?

Amcap can serve for a wide variety of different purposes, and the video capture application comes with a video preview where you can see the footage you're taking. Through this version, it will also feature a DV camcorder, and you have analog tuner support, improved MPEG2 support and multi-monitor and full-screen. You always have the parameter persistence. Whether or not you should download it depends on whether you can justify the reasons for it. With this system, you have 324,762 downloads.

Pros

  • You have a dead simple interface that makes it easy to navigate.
  • You can capture the video straight from the webcam.

Cons

  • If you choose to do video files, they will take up a lot of space.
  • No support for the automated snapshots.