It's a handy feature, and if you were using Windows instead of a Mac, you'd pay $20 for a very rudimentary application that can barely emulate a webcam, let alone a full video mixer with multiple camera inputs.

Also, webcam performers might like to stage additional performances by repeat broadcasting earlier performances or rebroadcasting performances for viewers in different timezones. Having a fake webcam is useful for uploading pre-edited video content to sites that only accept webcam input.

As you can see from the screen grab, PhotoBooth believes the 12' MacBook has a built-in iSight, even though the Mac has no physical camera at all - that's how good our iSight emulation is.

Launched PhotoBooth and took a picture of the prerecorded video.

Opened CamCamX and dropped a music video onto Source A (could just as well have been a still image taken with a cellphone).

Disconnected the external iSight from the 12' PowerBook.

Copied PhotoBooth.app (temporarily) from a MacBook to a 12' PowerBook.

'Not only can you broadcast live, but you can, at the same time, record your live video mix directly into iMovie 08 (iMovie HD, QuickTime Pro, et al) for later republishing as a DVD, clip, or iPod compatible podcast.'Īs a demonstration of so-called fake webcam with CamCamX, here's what we did: The video mix appears simultaneously on all Web cam application inputs without any special configuration, as if the video mix were itself a built-in iSight camera, according to B-l-a-c-k-o-p. Operators can perform a live video mix that is published as a live video in Yahoo Messenger, Skype video phone, and Adobe Flash-based video websites all at the same time.

The company also offers an AppleCare-like 3-year warranty (system requirements were unavailable). The software is priced at $30, though a lifetime subscription is also available for $100. What sets CamCamX apart from other existing video mixers is that the video mix is re-routed back into the Mac as an emulated iSight (Web cam) camera.' The CamCamX emulated camera is simultaneously available to all traditional Webcam and video recording applications as a live camera input. 'CamCamX takes a fresh approach to live video mixing on the desktop just as with traditional video mixers any two camera sources, QuickTime movies, and still images can be used as inputs and mixed in real time. CamCamX 1.701G (Released 2010.05.25) is the current and final version of Ghost.ī-l-a-c-k-o-p Design is now shipping, a broadcast quality video mixer for Macs that uses 8-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 component video as its native video format. CamCamX 1.701G (Released 2010.05.25) is the current and final version of Ghost. CamCamX 2.0 is an upgrade (uses new serial number) from versions 1.x. Most Mac models (including MacBook) have a secondary display connector. Today we released a new version of CamCamX which includes the ability to mix to a secondary display.

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