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We are not very experienced with using the Quickcam 9000 on Monkey Jam. We noticed that the quality seems just the same (if not worse) than the 4000 when we are using it. Are there any specific settings that you use, either on Monkey Jam or the Quickcam 9000?
For a very average shot of just the middle of the day I keep my settings like this.
The manual focus doesn't matter, as that always changes depending on your shot, but my settings may be irrelevant if you use a different sort of lighting than me. I use two halogen lights around my set.
Thanks for the tip, but we really already knew how to set those settings. We wanted more help on how the Monkey Jam settings are. Also, we never use "Anti-Flicker" or LED control.
I don't use Anti-Flicker or LED control either, they're automatically like that...
Anyway, those settings come up to the right when I animate with MonkeyJam, so I use those. I looked at the Monkeyjam settings themselves once and I really don't like them. I stick to the QuickCam ones, and that's why I offered such advice as what I gave.
We were wondering about such things as the size in which you film (like 640x480).
Alright, here's my MonkeyJam setup.
You can see everything clearer on the larger size version:
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq20 … 1278865933
You use 800x600? Maybe we will try that to see if our quality improves. Can anyone else post what their settings are? We'd like a wider range from which to draw our conclusions.
I'd also be interested to see that. If there are people getting better quality out of their films than mine, then I'm interested to see how. My quality's pretty high though. Looks great when rendered in HD. And just in case you haven't seen the results of that BB, check out my more recent videos on YouTube (Link in my sig).
Meh, it would kill my computer. 800x600 does a fine job for me. And I thought you used Helium Frog?
Sorry if this question might be a little irrelevant to the topic, but i don't have the autofocus/manualfocus function on my webcam settings panel, along with other functions, how can this be? are there older and newer versions of the webcam?
i bought mine off ebay.
Meh, it would kill my computer. 800x600 does a fine job for me. And I thought you used Helium Frog?
How do you do HD with 800x600 pictures?
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get an external hard drive when you get the money, Helium Frog gets best quality too yes.
