webcam reccomendations

[Mnx4]

hey all. I was thinking it would be real fun to send video mail to my friends while away at college. i don't want anything fancy-schmancy; i just want a camera to record a pretty good video that i could burn on one of those cdr mini discs. I've been looking at the quickcam express since, like i said, i don't want anything fancy, but it looks to have a good set of features and programs. also, should i get a cam with a microphone or can i just take any old microphone and sync it with the video? thanks

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[cakecake]

Not much experience in this field. But I did use a web cam for a short while. If you want sound you probably want one with a connector for a microphone.

I would just want to warn you... videos you record from your web cam can take up a LOT of space on your hard drive. a 45 second video can be 200MB. Make sure yours has options to reduce recording quality or compress, because many of the cheap $45 ones don't have software that does that.

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[Mnx4]

aren't there porgrams on the net that can convert .avi (i'm guessing web cam works in .avi format) to divx or mpg2? also, you're saying go for the one with a built in mic, right?

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[Mnx4]

c'mon.. anyone?

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