WebCam Companion 3.0.0.90

Forgotten in the mix is the widely popular webcam, used for online video chatting, simple video creation, and a variety of other functions. Forgotten, that is, until now.

ArcSoft WebCam Companion provides a broad range of functions designed and optimized for webcam use. Whether utilized to launch a video chat client or automatically record movement detected by the device, WebCam Companion gets the most out of any webcam.

Major Functions:

1. Photo and Video Capturing
   • You don't need a high-end digital video camera to make fun movies, and share them with friends and family. WebCam Companion makes capturing and editing video from your webcam fast and fun. Also preview photos and videos in full screen view, add animation effects to photos, and upload to YouTube.
2. Smart Video Enhancement
   • By using ArcSoft Noise Reduction, noise on webcam video will be greatly minimized. The video quality is always poor for scenes with lighting variations such as shadows and when color shifts in illumination occurs. You can use the ArcSoft Dynamic Lighting technology to improve the quality of real time video preview.
3. Pose Detection
   • With the Fun Frame application, automatically snap photos, adjust the pose detection sensitivity, select a variety of layouts and templates for printing, and select frame templates by category.
4. Masque your photos
   • Have fun and get creative with a morphing tool to integrate your face into another character, and then snap a photo. Preview your pictures with picture in picture, fit in view, portrait view, zoom in/out, and flip tools. Create a template by loading any pictures and then edit them with a variety of tools.
5. Editing Snapshots
   • Webcams are used primarily to stream video, but WebCam Companion lets you take snapshots with a variety of editing tools: adjust lighting with easy-to-use brightness and contrast controls, even sharpness to help compensate for movements; flip photos around to create mirror images, undo/redo changes with a single click; resize images by pixel resolution or by percentage, and now you can even crop your photos while you edit them.
6. Album Managing
   • As time goes by, your video and image file collections may grow large and become unmanageable; finding the file you want then becomes a difficult task. WebCam Companion has a convenient album-managing function that allows you to organize your files as soon as you create them. Captured images and video clips are organized into albums so that you can quickly find the right one.
7. Intelligent Video Surveillance
   • It incorporates efficient in-house face detection and motion detection technology to detect a face or object moving in front of the webcam and can report it by alerting the user by email or FTP with captured images. It also lets you set your recording to begin as soon as an abnormal event is detected by your webcam. Furthermore, it gives a convenient way to browse and review recorded videos by event.

Major Features:

1. Capture:
   • Records video clips in every resolution
   • Smart video enhancement by Noise Reduction and Dynamic Lighting technology
   • Takes still image snapshots in different resolutions (including Capture a series of images with one click
   • Captured media management: delete files, show media properties, find target, list media files by using different album types including All Captures, All Images, and All Videos.
   • Supports video/image preview for captured media
   • Supports BMP and JPEG file formats for image capture; MPEG-1 and WMV for video capture, and adds quality settings for JPEG and WMV format
   • Supports preview, takes photo, and records video under full screen view
   • Previews photo with in/out zoom, best fit, actual size, rotation, full screen, slideshow with transition, and music functions
   • Adds date stamp on captured pictures
2. Edit:
   • Trims video, and adjusts brightness and contrast with ease
   • Image edit: auto-enhance; brightness, contrast and blur adjustments; zoom in/out; rotate left/right; crop; mirror; resize resolution; and the choice to save edited results into different image formats
   • Saves those favorite moments from captured video into still images
   • Print function provides a multitude of page templates and functions to set page sizes and copies, as Sends selected media as email attachments; auto-fetch email address list, and automatically uses default email clients.
   • Plays selected images or all images in the album as slideshows.
   • Save as a variety of image formats: JPG, FPX, PSF, BMP, TIF, GIF, PCX, TGA
   • Supports popular video formats: MPEG-1 and WMV
   • Supports Upload to YouTube
3. Masque:
   • Morphs your face into another character
   • Takes photo of morphing face
   • Supports picture in picture preview, fit in view, portrait view, zoom in/out, and flip
   • Create a template by loading any pictures
   • Template editing function supports zoom in/out, undo/redo, brush, eraser, facial feature adjustment, and brush size adjustment.
4. Monitor:
   • Live video monitoring by motion detection and face detection
   • Record video automatically when the abnormal movement or face is detected by Alarming by emailing snapshots or uploading snapshots by FTP
   • Support listing those captured videos and events order by date
   • Adjustable sensitivity for motion detection
5. More Applications
   
   • Detects new applications automatically in ArcSoft Application Store
     
   • Supports listing all available applications with descriptions
     
   • Easily download and install selected new application with one click
     
6. Chat
   
   • Launch your favorite chat client directly from the utility
     
   • Link to a website to download and install supported chat programs
     
7. Additional Features
   
   • Black UI design to save power for Notebook use
   • UI Background can be changed for customization

Requirements:

• Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or equivalent AMD Athlon
• 80 MB free hard drive space required for program installation
• 512 MB DDR RAM or above
• 16-bit color display at 800x600 with DirectX 3D support
• DirectX 9.0c or above
• A USB 2.0 PC