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Hi all,
At the moment using D-SLR for brickfilming is generally off limits unless you want to splash out on something like Dragonframe. However, today I came across digiCamControl, a free program for Windows that allows you to make your D-SLR appear to applications as webcam and hence let you it in Helium Frog, Monkeyjam, Heron Animation, Boats Animator... etc.
If you are using a Mac checkout CamTwist or a paid solution for Windows is SparkoCam.
I'd thought share how to set it up:
- Download and install beta version 2.0.17 (IMPORTANT) or above of digiCamControl.
- Open digiCamControl and in the menu bar navigate to 'File > Settings'
- Select the 'web server' tab and tick 'use webserver'. For privacy reasons I'd recommend making sure that the 'allow public access' option below this is unchecked.
- Restart digiCamControl with your camera turned on and connected to your computer via a USB cable.
- Click 'allow access' if a Windows Firewall alert appears.
- Press the 'Live view' button in digiCamControl (it has an icon with 'Lv' on it).
- Open the program you want to use the camera with and choose 'digiCamControl Virtual WebCam' as your video source.
Note: If a green focus rectangle is displayed on the image you can hide it by unchecking 'show focus rectangle' in the display menu of the live view window of digiCamControl.
I hope this is helpful to someone and feel free to comment here or on the blog post I made regarding this if you have any questions!
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