Webcam

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble getting my ps3 eye feed into quartz composer. I'm using Mavericks and have changed the QC settings to run in 32-bit. I've placed the macam.component in the proper Quicktime folders, but the feed does not show up in the video input patch. I've tried using the FV Video Input, the macam option is on the list, but when i try to run it, the feed does not show in the viewer.

Could someone suggest some other options for getting my ps3 eye feed into QC?

Thanks

Hi everyone,

I'm posting this to possibly save others the headaches and frustration I was encountering until a minute ago.

PROBLEM: Whenever I had a Capture patch embedded in a composition (about 90% of the time in my case), I couldn't safely restart the viewer -- 95% of the times QC would just stop responding or even crash. Luckily KinemeCore tried to auto-save the composition (thanks for that!) so I didn't really lose much work. However, I did feel losing a lot of time, self-confidence and maybe even karma with all those crashes.

SOLUTION: So, after a looooot of trial and error I found out it was the QCAsynchronousQCView that I (accidentally?) checked in the extended preferences that was bothering my system. After unchecking this and a restart of QC I didn't have any trouble.

N.B. Probably someone else here can better explain the actual reason for this trouble. I know these options are all unsupported, for advanced users and "at own risk" and all, but at least I'm hoping someone else with similar trouble will now find this post. I know I would have liked that :)

pyramus

What's support like for general USB webcams in QC? Do general logitech or whatever cameras work OK? I've only used the built-in isight with it, but I'm thinking it would be fun to attach a camera to a telescope + make a useful astronomy app.