PC Camera that saves video on the Hard Drive?

[Keltron]

I am currently looking for some sorta webcam. is there a pc camera out there that directly saves the video to Hard Drive?

 

[whalen]

As far as I know they all do that...where else would the video be saved...

 

[Keltron]

on the onboard memory whalen. some of them have only a minute of video time. i hope you are right

 

[TungFree]

There are camcorders with firewire capabilities you capture the video to the hard drive using a fire wire card for PCI slot with a program like vertual dub or premiere or Ulead media studio Pro. Then you import the video into the software and export a pic.

That is how I did it.

I do not know enough about cam (cameras you hook up to usb Port and can both take snapshots or video to send out to the internet or save to hard drive, But It is software you need to examin for the cam .)

 

[videobruce]

I recomend the Kodak DVC 325 (less than $50).

I also have the 3Com HomeConnect (which might be discontinued) and have tried 2 different Logitech cameras and also a Kensignton and find all of themn are POOR!
The Logitech has a terrible pix and the software is bloated,. the Kensington doesn't work with some applications and the pix is poor also.
The Homeconnect is fair but complicated to try to adjust if you don't know cameras and video. I did video production for over 5 years so it wasn't a problem for me, but I can see most wopuld be lost trying to adjust it.

The Kodak is the only one out of the 5 or 6 cameras I tried that was half way decent.
I'm waiting for the USB 2 cameras to come out.
The software is what saves to video to the hard drive.
Videowave, MediaStudio etc.