#Change webcam settings mac plus#

When you go to configure your camera settings for video chat, you should see a new 'camera' device available, called 'CamTwist Studio.' If you select this device, your video stream should be the modified, low-resolution 320x240 (or whatever size you chose) stream, plus any effects you added in CamTwist. Most web-based video chat/meeeting services (such as GoToMeeting) use Adobe Flash for handling video. Now you're ready to launch your web browser (in 32-bit mode).(optional) If you wish, play around with the many interesting effects available within CamTwist, such as 'Comic Book,' shown here: A window should pop up showing you a live video stream from your camera device. Skip to Step 5 in the Cam Twist main window - select your camera device in the Settings column:.Follow the Steps in the CamTwist main window: double-click 'WebCam' from the Video Sources column. You'll then need to define a 'Setup' in CamTwist studio.

(Suggest 320 x 240 for low-bandwidth internet connections.)

Open CamTwist Studio, go to the Preferences, click the Video Devices tab, choose your video device, then use the 'Force camera resolution' setting to force whatever resolution you prefer.

(Why? Because the Adobe Flash browser plugin must run in 32-bit mode in order to access the CamTwist virtual camera device.) To do this, go to the Finder, locate your web browser app, do 'Get Info', and check the 'Open in 32-bit mode' checkbox. Set your web browser to run in 32-bit mode. (I'd bet it probably works in 10.7, also.)ĭownload the free (donation-ware) webcam effects utility CamTwist Studio. I've tested this solution under OS X 10.8.

You can work around this by piping the video output from your web camera into another program that processes the camera's video stream and 're-publishes' it to your Mac as a virtual camera (aka pseudo-camera) which will be available for use in other applications on your Mac. Apple (or a 3rd party) should write a utility to allow you to dial down the native resolution of the internal camera, but to my knowledge they have not, so far.

Change webcam settings mac