Best settings for capturing a video via Webcam?

[MeghanB]

Hello! I really hate to bug y'all about this, but I have looked up, down, and sideways to figure out my problem.

I have a Logitech webcam (not the best, but not the worst) connected to my Windows XP 32 Bit computer. (Yes, I realize I need to upgrade. We are working on that.) However, I make YT videos on a regular basis for crafting, and have recently started using Corel VideoStudio Pro X-5 Ultimate to capture via webcam and edit my videos. When I go to watch the video after it's been captured, the sound "skips" during the video. Words will be cut off, but the video looks fine. The actual video itself doesn't skip.

I'm wondering what the best setting would be to capture a video via webcam so that it is a smooth picture/sound (as smooth as a mid grade Logitech cam will do, of course), and have the file not be 3gb. Since I upload these to YT (not via the YT uploader), the smaller the file, the better, within quality reason.

Thank you so much, in advance, for ANY and all advice you can give me.

[teknisyan]

The default settings of VideoStudio X5 always works for me. If the audio appears to be skipping and may also be out of sync, then you may want to check if there is something in the background is also using the microphone of your computer. I would suggest that you make sure that you are only running VideoStudio X5 and nothing else when you try and use the capture feature.

[MeghanB]

Thanks so much for your reply! I'll try that next time. I'm hoping that issue goes away once I upgrade to a better computer. Lol.

[lata]

Hi

If you play the clips with one of your media players, does it play ok.
If so then its Video Studio that is not playing the video correctly.
otherwise its the capture that's at fault.

When you captured were you using the web cam mic or another?

Did you set the PC audio properties to the correct audio record?