QuickCam

QuickCam is a small Windows application that can be used as your personal surveillance tool, as it is able to record video streams and automatically detect motion via your webcam. Its aim is to continuously stream the captured video on the Internet and record a video file when movement is detected.

Although the user interface is quite intuitive, you can check you the built-in help manual if you want to find out more about each dedicated parameter.

The utility organizes its main features into multiple tabs, such as Video, Network, Record, Motion, and System. Plus, it embeds on the top part of the primary panel several handy buttons, which help you start, pause, or stop the recording process, take snapshots, as well as enable or disable the network connection.

QuickCam gives you the possibility to select the video source from a drop-down list and alter the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness, gamma, white balance, and other handy parameters.

You may enable the anti-flickering mode for solving the problems related to live interlaced videos, and control the camera by adjusting the zoom, focus, exposure, aperture, tilt, pan, and other options.

When it comes to network features, you are allowed to select the video bitrate, choose the size for the output clip from several preset options or enter a custom one, automatically start the streaming process when you run the application, and de-interlace videos on network stream.

What’s more, you can specify the local IP address, limit the maximum number of users to a user-defined value, enter the network port number, view the current connections, as well as enable sound notifications upon connection.

QuickCam lets you specify the saving directory, export clips to AVI file format, choose the date/time format, as well as enter the frames per second for the capturing and playback modes.

Plus, you can make the tool show the compression settings dialogues when a new recording starts, automatically enable the recording process when the app starts, schedule the recording each day at a custom time.

The program lets you mark out a rectangle on the image for controlling the motion-sensitive area. Any movement outside this area is ignored, and you can control small or large amounts of movement to be ignored (e.g. falling leaves, heavy rainstorm).

Last but not least, you can make the tool automatically delete files older than a custom number of days, send files to the Recycle Bin, check out the event log, as well as add an audio file (WAV file format) from your computer, which is played upon connections.

QuickCam comes bundled with plenty of configuration settings for helping you stream captured video onto the Internet and record a clip when movement is detected.