Creative Live! Cam with Voice
by Creative
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Customer Review: A camera that is easy to install and easy to use
Summary: 5 Stars
We love this camera we tried another by a well known company and the software and camera did not work with our operating systems. The camera had so many quirks we could never get it working. I am not a computer expert and I got this thing up and running with no problems. I would recommend this camera to anyone.Customer Review: Creative little camera
Summary: 4 Stars
I use this camera quite often and it seems to work pretty well. My PC is pretty powerful but it seems sometimes the video is a bit choppy which is a little disappointing. Also, the video and audio get out of sync depending on what you choose to encode your video as.
1 thing I particularly do not like is it seems the microphone is constantly ON. I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum ZS2 internal card which I like using the 'record what you hear' feature quite often and I noticed that on one of my recordings room ambience included in my recordings. It took me a while to find that culprit was this camera. I unplugged the USB cable because I couldn't find an option to shut the microphone off when the camera was not recording, but was unsuccessful. I'm sure there is a way, but I looked for a good while and just winded up unplugging it instead.
The lighting seems to auto-adjust which can be good and bad at times. I believe this is also an option to shut off, but like I said, it is good in most cases. Sometimes when you move too close to it, it locks into a lighting setting and could take a while to re-adjust back to a good setting.
You really have to play around with the setting to get a good recording, but if you are just using it for normal conferencing I think you should be fine.
Overall it is still a good camera. I bought this a couple years ago, so Im sure there might be better ones out there now. Just do you research before you buy and if you can get a good price for this one then go for it.
Customer Review: Really great, EXCEPT!
Summary: 4 Stars
Got my wonderful Creative webcam, proudly installed the software, uninstalled the software, installed the software, uninstalled the software. Anyway you get the idea. Not put off by dumb machines, I tried several changes in the default layout. It seems the layout the Creative believes is the living end, AIN'T! I had to change it to AVI and the Intel Indedo video compresser and changed the audio compresser to MPEG layer-3.
Best it's little heart, within range it follows me around when I move in the chair, keeping me centered in the picture. I like that.
I was this close to sending it back (*) because I had a problem!
Customer Review: Good video quality with a little fisheye
Summary: 4 Stars
I only use the video portion of the camera and use cell phone for audio, so I haven't tested the audio aspects. The video quality is very good, although it does tend to have a fisheye effect that is noticeable.Customer Review: It is hard to say
Summary: 4 Stars
My image on my screen is very sharp,however on the other side of transmission the picture is some what blured ( pixelated). The problem could be other then the quality of the Live Cam itselfe.
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