Some users have reported incompatibilities running CamCamX with Safari and Flash 11. This is because Safari is now a 64-bit application and Flash 11 runs in 64-bit mode as well. To use Safari with Flash 11 and CamCamX, you must set Safari to open in 32-bit mode. This is done in the Finder using Get Info.

1. Locate Safari in Finder.
2. Choose "More Info..." button or "Get Info..." from the File menu.
3. Select the box marked "Open in 32-bit mode."

Google Chrome is a 32-bit browser. Chrome also works with CamCamX and Flash 11.

If you have an external USB camera and you wish to switch the A/B camera views, here are the steps:

1. Under the Camera A menu, choose "No Camera".
2. Under the Camera B menu, choose "No Camera".
3. Under the Camera A menu, choose "No Camera" again: this will refresh the camera list.
4. Under the Camera A menu, choose "Logitech" (or similar). This should open the Logitech camera.
5. Under the Camera B menu, choose the "iSight" or "FaceTime" camera.

In general, choosing "No Camera" from either "Camera A" or "Camera B" menus will refresh the camera list. New camera drivers are only recognized when CamCamX starts up, so a new camera might not be recognized unless you quit and relaunch CamCamX.

There is a small compatibility glitch in the way that camera and microphone settings are accessed in Flash under Lion.

The popup window that appears when you first access an online web site that requires access to your camera is unable to respond to mouse clicks. The workaround is to make adjustments to the global settings for Flash.



Conveniently, the Adobe Flash Settings Manager is a hypertext link. Access it here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html

To Use CamCamX with Safari under Lion

• Set the global Flash preferences for that website to "Always allow"

Labels: camcamx, flash, lion

One of our persistent customers suggested we work on the compatibility with Mirial Softphone, a H.263 internet video telephone solution for the Mac.

The standard version of CamCamX flickers badly with Mirial Softphone. We were able to diagnose the problem and have a custom fix available (1.806 support release - contact us if you need it).

Labels: mac, mirial, softphone, video mixer

Version 1.805 of CamCamX is here along with full support for live streaming into any Snow Leopard QuickLook-enabled application.

Look inside the Leopard Goodies folder of the installer and you'll find everything you need to stream CamCamX output live into an iChat Theater session or Finder.

Also new in this version is CamCamX Live.mov. Start CamCamX and open this movie file in any QuickTime enabled player that can play looping movies and you've got a live output of your CamCamX mixer feed!

From your insanely great friends at Black Op!

Labels: quicklook, quicktime, snow leopard

WORKAROUND: Maximize the CamCamX monitor window to Full Screen and share that Desktop in Skype.

CamCamX (and other BlackOp and 3rd party virtual camera drivers) have an issue with Skype 5.1.0.914.

http://goo.gl/BW03F

Skype needs to change the way it handles the isInUseByAnotherApplication selector for our camera driver. This issue would affect all virtual camera drivers including Google Talk etc.

Labels: skype

One customer reported problems when running CamCamX under the 10.6.7 Snow Leopard update. We installed the update here and didn't have any problems. After googling a bit, we uncovered a variety of 10.6.7 problem reports related to repairing disk permissions on your boot drive.


Startup in safe mode and see if the problem still exists.

To start in safe mode:

Turn the computer off.
Press the power button.
When you hear the startup tone hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be
held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress
indicator (looks like a spinning gear).

When in safe mode, do a repair disk permissions (Disk Utility.app).

Labels: 10.6.7, snow leopard

Starting with Snow Leopard 10.6.6, compatibility problems with QuickTime Player Pro 7 have been corrected and now you can once again record directly from the CamCamX mixer output to a H.264 (or native) movie inside QuickTime Player Pro 7.

Reminder:

1. Launch CamCamX.
2. Enable "Allow New Camera Connections".
3. Start/launch QuickTime Player Pro 7.
4. Open Preferences.
5. Choose the CamCamX virtual camera drive.
6. Under the File menu, choose New Movie Recording.

QuickTime player will continue to record your mix until you click stop. You can switch back to CamCamX and operate the mixer while QuickTime records in the background. You can also do this with Quicky and Quickier (our free recording apps).

CamCamX 1.701 is now available for downloading. Included in this release are important compatibility updates for Snow Leopard. In addition two new camera mix-modes are included. Side-by-side CNN style (using this mode will bring in the A-camera "still picture" image as the background. And also Picture-in-Picture, which allows you to run more traditional news stories.

It's best to prep your artwork as 640x480 4:3 images for both performance and display.

Also, if you have Flip4Mac or Perian installed, more types of video can be used as sources.

Speaking of source video, check out keepvid.com - a site that allows you to download most youtube clips as .mp4. In general, MP4 clips are the best source format for CamCamX. We determined this experimentally by looking at the performance of various codecs. Sure, H.264 works great, but when you've got multiple cameras running and multiple webcam clients (Justin.tv and ustream.tv), it's more important to balance the CPU load by using traditional MP4.

We've been able to successfully configure a 1G Macbook (White) to work with 5 simultaneous camera inputs (Two USB cameras, two external Firewire iSight cameras and the Built-in iSight).

1. Get your free license to FourEyes3D (CamCamX users can email us).
2. Start FourEyes3D, use the [ 1 ] and [ 2 ] buttons as a 2 input switcher.
3. Enable Rebroadcasting in FourEyes3D.
4. Start Q@amera. Open the first Firewire iSight as the input. Enable Rebroadcasting.
5. Start CamCamX.
6. In CamCamX, select FourEyes3D as the A camera and use Camera B to switch between Q@mera and iSight #2.

Some Flash-based webcam applications are using the driver description string instead of the name of the camera in the camera selection popup.

This can be confusing with CamCamX. The driver description for CamCamX is:

USB Video Class Video

Labels: flash, live mix, webcam, webchat

http://web.mac.com/the.permanent.record/

If you have a media event you are producing with our products, we are happy to send you linkage to promote it! Viva la media democracy!

We released a new version of CamCamX this past week which should provide a substantial performance boost, reducing the frame delay between the source camera inputs and the mixed camera output which appears as a virtual camera input in other applications.

1. Start CamCamX and make sure the Allow New Camera Connections button is enabled.

2. Open iMovie HD and create a new project in the iSight format.

3. In the iMovie HD window, move the toggle button Switch to import video or edit your movie to the left.

4. In iMovie, click the camera icon to the (left of the toggle), and from the pulldown and select Built-in iSight (CamCamX).

5. Click the Record with iSight button.

Labels: faq

Today we released a new version of CamCamX which includes the ability to mix to a secondary display. Most Mac models (including MacBook) have a secondary display connector.

Apple makes a variety of secondary display adapters, allowing you to run CamCamX mixes out to a secondary device. Run the CamCamX mixer on your main display and connect the secondary display to:

1. Composite and S-Video.
2. VGA and S-VGA Projectors.
3. Apple Cinema Display (DVI).
3. Plasma Television (HDMI).

It works pretty good.

Labels: faq

If you have only one camera (i.e. Built-in iSight) and want to make it appear under Camera B instead of A.

1. Under the A Menu, choose No Camera.
2. Under the B Menu, choose No Camera -- forces refresh of available cameras.
3. Under the B Menu, choose Built-in iSight.

Labels: faq

Boinx Software has a product called iStopMotion that will allow you to create stop motion animations using CamCamX as a camera input. Check it out:

http://boinx.com/istopmotion/

If you have QuickTime Pro, you can also create stop motion in DotMatrix or Q@mera.

Labels: stop motion animation