Meet the (old) CyberLink YouCam. This is the 1st Giz Wiz Youtube video I could find and it’s all about a pretty ‘hot’ product at the time. This video was recorded 14 years ago and you’ll see what video quality was like back then. CyberLink YouCam software originally cost about $30 back then, which is probably more like forty or $50 today. It gave you the ability to add lots of fun screen overlays. After a while CyberLink YouCam was included free in many operating systems, including Windows Vista. Surprisingly, it’s still available, but now it seems pretty dated even though it’s been updated quite a bit since it was introduced. Chad mentions some other free choices which do more than YouCam on this week’s show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4FyVxh284
A free version is available here:
https://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/trials/youcam/download_en_US.html?r=1
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1859
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Email of the week!
From: John firth Subject; Landscape filming with a mobile phone
HI dick and Chad: I have an app on my phone which you can film landscape no matter which angle it is pointing.
Here is the link to Google play.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hvt.horizon
I believe you can get it on IOS . John.
