Create And Upload Videos Using Windows Camera App

hello vipers today we're going to talk

about

how you can record videos using

the default windows

camera app and so an advantage here

is that this will allow you to record

videos

either using an alternate webcam that

you have set up

because browsers don't let you change

from from one camera to the other and

another

advantage here as well is that you'll be

able to

have a more reliable connection uh so

while an advantage to using this record

video button in your browser is that

it's

easy uh a disadvantage is that

this connection relies on you having a

stable internet connection

uh so if you have a if you're recording

a long video it's like 20 minutes long

or something like that

and there's a hiccup in your internet

connection along the way you could you

risk

losing that entire video whereas if you

are just recording a video into a file

that went straight onto your hard drive

then that is a just a more stable

connection there are fewer variables

going on there so um so

often it's uh it's just it's safer to

just record straight to your hard drive

and thankfully in windows it's really

easy to do this as well

windows has comes with a really great

default

camera app so to access this

you'll just want to hit your the windows

key

or go down to the bottom left corner

where it says tap type here to search

i'm using a dual monitor setup here and

i don't have that task bar

on this window so you can't see it but

just hit

i'm hitting my windows key type starting

to type in camera and

before i even finish the word it shows

the camera app

so you hit enter on that and there you

go now you have your your windows camera

app that pops up here

and then this is kind of like a like a

cell phone interface really you know you

have your

take video button take photos you want

to make sure the video one

is the one that is highlighted also uh

so many of you might be using this

because you're looking for a way to uh

to use a webcam as opposed to your

default uh

as opposed to your laptop's default

webcam

um since i'm using a desktop here i'm

not

able to i don't have multiple cameras so

i can't show you exactly

how you change them in the in the

page like in the help center

uh page for this i'm going to include a

link to uh to an article that i found on

on microsoft's support forum talking

about how to change

uh cameras in this um from my

understanding the

the option pops up when you have

multiple cameras

and it's hidden when you only have once

but i believe that you

want to go over to this gear here and

you should probably somewhere in here

see a place to to change cameras i'm

guessing it's probably going to be

somewhere

around here so this is where you'll have

that option

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so to record your video just go

here you hit take video it's very

similar

actually to how it plays out in our

web app where you just let it roll you

hit stop

and it's saved and uh and then to

to locate this you can either just

open your open your file manager

and go to i believe it's actually under

pictures yes

they put under pictures might be under

videos too no

just under pictures camera roll and

there you go

uh this is where you'll find it um

alternately you could just go down here

to this lower corner again this is kind

of like the

kinda like the android um

like like the android camera app and

then you go over to the upper right

the three dots right there open folder

and then there you go that'll also take

you straight here

so then what you're going to want to do

to upload this to bike cloud as you hit

the plus button file video

uh and then you can just you know you

can just navigate you know pictures

camera roll alternately what you could

also

do to to navigate to where your file is

in here

is uh you know you've got like the uh

the path to to this folder right here

just click into this empty space next to

it

brings this up copy it go over to

where we are opening again here i'll

just start from this from scratch here

so i've got that saved in my uh in my

clipboard

hit the plus hit file video

select in here paste it there

and hit enter and then that is going to

take us straight to our camera roll

without having to navigate there

so then we find the video we want hit

open

upload

and let this upload

then we can give it a name if we so

choose

and head over to our content management

to uh to find it there

while it is encoding so this is it right

here

and while it's encoding we're not going

to see a thumbnail there but

that's how you can use the the windows

default camera app to upload a

video or record a video and then upload

it to vip cloud

let us know if you have any questions