Camera settings, webcam look and feel>
 

Anyway im trying to film some content whereas it will look like a webcam, meaning not razor sharp and a bit choppy

Anyone any ideas? a way to set my regular cam up for this? filming it on a webcam wont help as it only has that look when its over the web broadcasting

do it in post OR buy a cheap ass cam and shoot it WHILE shooting with your good cam as well... then you'll have quality footage as well as crap footage for safety....

adding grain and stuff in post = increasing file size 6X

cant find a cam to duplicate that

anyone know how many FPS on avg is broadcasted thru webcam

Depends on the cam, you want 30+ FPS.

doubt it that will give it to good of a picture too smooth

You could try to film at 15 fps or so, edit as normal but use some filters (real time that don't require rendering on the timeline) to reduce the brightness, contrast and/or saturation of the footage. (Cineform filters for me in Premiere Pro) Then export to an intermediate AVI and import into your video encoding app, or if you prefer encode straight out of your editing app to a final format like WMV, MPEG or Flash with a low video bitrate and mono or low bitrate audio as well. That should do the trick. You can even add something like a running timecode on the video (plug-ins exist for this in Premiere Pro) or a border or frame around the video like you sometimes see on security camera footage to give it a hidden camera look if you want it to look like that. I would also make sure that you keep the camera in a fixed position so it operates like a real webcam as well or give the girls a remote control they can point at the camera to operate it like a cam girl does.

Some cam quality is very high these days, like on http://flirt4free.com [premiere category] maybe you can just dress up a webcam sized video with cam interface design on the page and not worry so much about re-encoding.

Otherwise to get the old school look, Jim Gunn ^ has some badass tips.

Why don't you just film it with a shitty webcam?

Scrolling down this thread, I was just about to post the EXACT same thing... :2 cents:

thanks people some good options and idea here for some project

use your cell phone

Good call!

put all settings on auto & use crappy lighting

Thumbs up on that, too, and make sure your lighting sucks.

Buy a few old 1 ccd camcorders on ebay. Dont use good 3ccd ones, keep the lighting low.