Cheap Camera for simple IMAG

[bhorst]

I have been using an old Panasonic DV camera to run on occasion when we have shown baptisms up on the screen. I have been going into USB on the PC and running it live from SongShow Plus. It works pretty well with no lag.

We only use it once every few months.

The quality isn't that great though and was curious to see if any new cheap HD cameras would allow for live output into a computer.

It seems like any camera that records to a HD or Flash media doesn't play well with being used as a glorified webcam though.

Any suggestions?

[[Admin] osborn4]

How do you keep it from going to sleep?

We've tried imagging our baptisms with a consumer camera, going into the computer with firewire. But the camera goes to sleep before we get to when we want to imag and SongShow Plus won't recognize the live video input when we wake the camera back up. We have to shut down SSP and restart it.