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How to
How to play video clip to your friend which was recoded
before?
- In Play Video page, open your video clips which recorded before.
- (Optional) Select a video effect using "select an effect" button.
- Click play file.
Tips:
If you want to launch your favorite video clips more quickly. You can copy
them to "Install Directory\Preset Video" subdirectory and access them by "preset
video" button.
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How to send
sound along with video?
By default, Windows
recognize audio input from Microphone. So you can not
send audio along with video when you play movie files to
your friend. To do it, you should switch your recorder
input to the stereo mix in Windows. By this way, all
sound on your computer will streamed to IM applications.
You may take the following steps to select the stereo
mix in your Windows.
1. Open Volume Control dialog and select its Options
menu, then click Properties in it.
2. Make sure the
"Recording" and "Stereo Mix" buttons is checked and
click OK. See screenshot below for reference.

3. In the next dialog,
select the "Stereo Mix" item as your input.

Now your IM applications
will send sound along with video to your friends.
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How to do a
live screen streaming or video forwarding?
Let's take MSN Messenger
as example. Assume you open two video chat windows
called A and B in messenger. You want to forward friend
B's video to friend A. So you can take the following
steps:
1. Run Magic Camera and
switch to Capture Screen Panel.
2. Click "Play" button
and move the capture window to friend B's video window
on the screen.
3. In friend A's video
window, select Magic Camera as your camera source. Now
you can send video to A which is live captured form B.
Screenshot: 
With the same method, you
also can send back your friend's living video in
real-time. Freely adding video effect to it before
sending back. You friend will be amazed by this magic
mirror.
Screenshot:
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How to save
video conversation?
To save your
own living video:
Take the following steps:
1. Switch to Capture
Camera Panel or any other panel you want to save your
video.
2. Make sure you have
selected "Save Video To" checkbox.
3. Make sure the path for
saving is correct and disk space is enough. Something
like below:

4. Start
playing/capturing, then the played frames will be saved
automatically with bitmap file formats.
5. After stop
playing/capturing, the recording action also stops.
6. Go to Encode Page to
produce a video file using the recorded bitmap sequence.
7. Set encoding
parameters. Below gives a example:

A few notes:
- The source path is
the saving path you have just set in the
playing/capturing page.
- The available
encoding formats is depends on how many codecs you
have installed on windows.
- the output video
files can be either avi or asf format.
8. Click the "start
encode" button.
TIPS:
You
can also add magic video effect to the clip.
To save your
friend's living video:
Take the following steps:
1. Switch to Capture
Screen Panel.
2. Make sure you have
selected "Save Video To" checkbox.
3. Make sure the path for
saving is correct and disk space is enough. Something
like below:

4. Move the capture
window to select your friend's video window(for example,
MSN Messenger video chat window) on screen.
5. Start capturing, then
the captured screen will be saved automatically with
bitmap file formats.
6. After stop capturing,
the recording action also stops.
7. Go to Encode Page to
produce a video file using the recorded bitmap sequence.
8. Set encoding
parameters. Below gives a example:

A few notes:
- The source path is
the saving path you have just set in the
playing/capturing page.
- The available
encoding formats is depends on how many codecs you
have installed on windows.
- the output video
files can be either avi or asf format.
9. Click the "start
encode" button.
TIPS:
You
can also add magic video effect to the clip.
With the above functions,
you can save the video conversation for later playing.
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How to change bitmap of the default preview?
1. Go to Magic Camera directory, find the subdirectory "Background".
2. There are files named "camera.jpg", "film.jpg",
"photo.jpg" and "screen.jpg".
2. Replace these four jpg files with your own using the same filename.
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