Trying to Use Panasonic HS300 as Webcam

[racingintherain]

Have always used my camcorders as webcams in the past, but am unable to get a passthrough video signal from my new HD Panasonic HS300 camcorder using USB connection. I can find no mention in the manual. My office wants to use this for HD video streaming. Any help from the gurus?

I'm testing on a 64bit Windows 7 machine. In my office it will operate in a 32 bit XP environment.

Thanks in advance,

Rain

[aedipuss]

HD streaming would probably have to be through the HDMI connection. camcorder usb streaming is usually 320x240.

[racingintherain]

Thanks aedipuss. What I'm seeing is the computer recognizong the camcorder as another disk drive and not letting me see any video passthrough at all. When I try to use Vegas Capture, Skype, or other interfaces there is no recognition of the device. Do you think HDMI out and into the computer would solve that problem?

Rain

[aedipuss]

idk, never tried it. you'd have to capture the raw stream and compress the heck out of it in order to stream it. maybe with a blackmagic intensity pro.

we use an HD 720p webcam here. cost is minimal.

i can see the usb streaming being eliminated if it's a hard drive/flash based cam, because they have to access the video storage that way. it used to work for tape based cams.

[racingintherain]

Thanks. Looks like we'll stay with the 720p webcam as well.

Rain