Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
With all of the video calling and "working from home" going on in the world, can you re-purpose your old camcorder to make it easier? Surely it would be advantageous for some people, such as teachers, who might need a document camera or the ability to focus on a chalkboard. As we show in this video, the lens quality and picture control adjustments on this 12-year-old camcorder (the Canon Vixia HF100) put newer integrated laptop web cameras to shame! It definitely adds the ability to focus on a document or a whiteboard in a Microsoft Teams meeting. All I needed to add was an HDMI to USB video capture device, which is placed inline between the output signal of the camcorder and the PC's USB port. I can even play back pre-recorded video from the camcorder's SD card into the video call, which is interesting since I could simply pre-record myself pretending to be attentive to a meeting...
Even more surprising is Windows automatically recognizes multiple attached cameras and allows a user to easily switch between them, either in Microsoft Teams or the native Windows 10 "Camera" application.
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - HDMI Camcorder Needed
1:24 - HDMI to USB Dongle
1:55 - Setting up a camcorder win Windows 10
2:29 - Using 2 Cameras in Microsoft Teams
3:30 - Results of Experiment
4:34 - Showing Home Movies as a Webcam!
We hope you enjoyed this video. If you want to see more, click on our channel name (ACBMemphis) and then click videos.
With all of the video calling and "working from home" going on in the world, can you re-purpose your old camcorder to make it easier? Surely it would be advantageous for some people, such as teachers, who might need a document camera or the ability to focus on a chalkboard. As we show in this video, the lens quality and picture control adjustments on this 12-year-old camcorder (the Canon Vixia HF100) put newer integrated laptop web cameras to shame! It definitely adds the ability to focus on a document or a whiteboard in a Microsoft Teams meeting. All I needed to add was an HDMI to USB video capture device, which is placed inline between the output signal of the camcorder and the PC's USB port. I can even play back pre-recorded video from the camcorder's SD card into the video call, which is interesting since I could simply pre-record myself pretending to be attentive to a meeting...
Even more surprising is Windows automatically recognizes multiple attached cameras and allows a user to easily switch between them, either in Microsoft Teams or the native Windows 10 "Camera" application.
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - HDMI Camcorder Needed
1:24 - HDMI to USB Dongle
1:55 - Setting up a camcorder win Windows 10
2:29 - Using 2 Cameras in Microsoft Teams
3:30 - Results of Experiment
4:34 - Showing Home Movies as a Webcam!
We hope you enjoyed this video. If you want to see more, click on our channel name (ACBMemphis) and then click videos.
