recording live session from Vista
December 29, 2007 6:18 AM   Subscribe

I would like to know how I can capture audio/video sessions on an HP laptop with built-in webcam for playback on the same machine. Some basic editing functions would be useful to clean up a session. I need to be able to take the file and play it on my Mac as well.

I'm working on a laptop for a week running Windows Vista. It's a new HP with a built-in webcam.

I need to record my voice and image so I can play the session back at will.

I will be moving to my regular workstation, an Intel Mac, so I will need to be able to open, play and edit the file there as well.

I would like to know if there's some built-in software in Vista, or some freeware I can download to do this? I would pay a shareware fee if necessary to get this functionality but using the HP is only temporary. My typical platform is the Mac so I'll need to know how to do this there as well.

Basic functionality: ability to record audio off the built-in mic and save as an mp3 or mp4 for playback. Some basic editing
functions would also be nice.

As long as I'm doing the audio, might as well do the video too. The audio is must have, video is optional but to my mind seems like that should be easy to do at the same time.

I'm thinking perhaps Quicktime Pro could do this, or perhaps one of the chat clients like Yahoo Messenger can record the webcam as an mp4. Still, be nice to have some editing functions too.


Extra functionality: video capture.
posted by diode to Technology (2 answers total)
 
Audacity is the standard response to questions about recording audio. Works great.

So far as video, the laptop should have some software already on it if it has an integrated webcam. HP should have put something on there to make use of it.
posted by DMan at 8:10 AM on December 29, 2007


You didnt mention how much your willing to spend,..so here are a few suggestions:

A lot of my friends speak very highly of Camtasia.

On the cheaper end, the program i use is webcamXP

Dman's suggestion (audacity and/or HP provided webcam software) would work, but (assuming) you'd have to manually sync up the audio/video, and I'm assuming you dont wanna do that manually.

If I think of other ideas (freeware/opensource??)..I'll post again
posted by jmnugent at 8:32 AM on December 29, 2007


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