AlterCam is an ingenious tool that installs a virtual webcam on your system which, in turn, allows you to broadcast video from different sources such as your real webcam, your on-screen action and even a video file. Besides, you can apply numerous effects to both the video and audio streams of your original video source. Then, you can make snapshots and record video from your "new" webcam.
The program offers you a nice and friendly user interface where you can select your video source, select one or more effects to apply to it and start or stop the virtual webcam service. Among the effects you can apply to the video stream are blur, erosion, green/blue/red world, grayscale, negative, quad mirror, sepia, mosaic, rotate, swirl and many more, plus some backgrounds and frames. As for the audio stream you can select the source microphone or disable it, alter the tone of voice and apply some effects like distortion, echo, chorus and others. Once you are happy with your applied effects, you can take a snapshot or start the video capture with a single click.
If you select your screen as the video source, you can choose to capture your whole desktop, a specific window, a specific area or simply follow your mouse cursor. If, on the other hand, you select a prerecorded video file as source for your virtual webcam, you need to select the file which can be in AVI, MPEG or WMV formats. Furthermore, the program saves histories of your captures be them snapshots or videos. And here comes one of the most powerful features of AlterCam: you can share your snapshots through Facebook, Twitter or Google+ and upload your videos to YouTube directly form the program. Finally, the program allows you to set the virtual webcam resolution up to 1920x1440 and select the video and audio codecs for video recording.
To conclude, this versatile tool will really come in handy to you if you need to broadcast your on-screen activity or a prerecorded video. Besides, the program can also be used as a screen capture tool, and allows you to share your captures in a very easy way. I would really recommend you giving this tool a try if you have any of the mentioned needs.
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