Real3d CamViewer1.4.0

If you're not satisfied with the recording tool shipped with your webcam, you can try Real3d CamViewer. It's a free and open-source Windows application that offers intuitive options for viewing and recording camera footage, making various image adjustments, using facetracking, and taking snapshots.Setting it up shouldn't be difficult. However, if you're experiencing errors, make sure that you have the latest .NET Framework installed. As soon as you reach the main app window, you can select your webcam device to view footage right away.

Record and save webcam footage with this tool

Buttons for starting and stopping video recordings are available in the "File" menu as well as via keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+R and Ctrl+E, respectively). If you're having trouble finding the folder with recorded clips, check the Windows Videos folder. Unfortunately, Real3d CamViewer doesn't have an option for immediately opening the directory with saved clips, nor for choosing another location.Video files are saved in AVI format and there are no other filetype options available. Similarly, captured snapshots (Ctrl+S shortcut) are autosaved as JPGs and placed in the Windows Pictures folder, without any other options.

Create video slideshows from any pictures

On the other hand, Real3d CamViewer has a feature for creating slideshow videos out of all pictures from any specified directory, giving you the possibility to set the delay between slides.As far as video adjustments are concerned, you can rotate and flip the picture, activate facetracking, toggle RGB and grayscale, as well as tweak the levels for blur, smoothness, sharpness, details, brightness, contrast, offset, saturation, vibrance, hue, gamma, sepia, posterize, threshold, equalize, dots, pencil sketch, and stylization. Auto photo correction is not implemented.Aside from the minor downsides, a bigger problem is that Real3d CamViewer consumed a lot of system resources in our tests and considerably slowed down other running programs, even after stopping the webcam recording. It seems that the software application has some stability issues that it needs to work on before becoming a reliable camera recorder.