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Create And Upload Videos Using Windows Camera App
Create And Upload Videos Using Windows Camera App
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Written by VipeCloud Developer
Updated over 4 months ago

Recording videos in-browser is great for most users because it's quick and easy. However, for some users it is better to record videos using your default Windows camera app.

Reasons for this include:

  • Unstable internet connection

  • Recording long videos

  • Ability to edit videos

  • Ability to choose camera other than built-in webcam

Since it wasn't possible to demonstrate choosing between cameras in the tutorial, here is a link to a support forum discussing how to do this.

Transcript

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hello vipers today we're going to talk

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about

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how you can record videos using

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the default windows

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camera app and so an advantage here

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is that this will allow you to record

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videos

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either using an alternate webcam that

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you have set up

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because browsers don't let you change

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from from one camera to the other and

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another

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advantage here as well is that you'll be

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able to

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have a more reliable connection uh so

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while an advantage to using this record

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video button in your browser is that

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it's

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easy uh a disadvantage is that

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this connection relies on you having a

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stable internet connection

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uh so if you have a if you're recording

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a long video it's like 20 minutes long

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or something like that

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and there's a hiccup in your internet

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connection along the way you could you

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risk

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losing that entire video whereas if you

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are just recording a video into a file

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that went straight onto your hard drive

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then that is a just a more stable

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connection there are fewer variables

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going on there so um so

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

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just record straight to your hard drive

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and thankfully in windows it's really

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easy to do this as well

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windows has comes with a really great

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default

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camera app so to access this

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you'll just want to hit your the windows

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key

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or go down to the bottom left corner

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where it says tap type here to search

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i'm using a dual monitor setup here and

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i don't have that task bar

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on this window so you can't see it but

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just hit

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i'm hitting my windows key type starting

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to type in camera and

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before i even finish the word it shows

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the camera app

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so you hit enter on that and there you

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go now you have your your windows camera

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app that pops up here

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and then this is kind of like a like a

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cell phone interface really you know you

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have your

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take video button take photos you want

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to make sure the video one

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is the one that is highlighted also uh

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so many of you might be using this

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because you're looking for a way to uh

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to use a webcam as opposed to your

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default uh

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as opposed to your laptop's default

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webcam

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

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not

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able to i don't have multiple cameras so

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i can't show you exactly

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how you change them in the in the

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page like in the help center

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uh page for this i'm going to include a

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link to uh to an article that i found on

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on microsoft's support forum talking

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about how to change

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uh cameras in this um from my

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understanding the

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the option pops up when you have

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multiple cameras

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and it's hidden when you only have once

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but i believe that you

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want to go over to this gear here and

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you should probably somewhere in here

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see a place to to change cameras i'm

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guessing it's probably going to be

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somewhere

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around here so this is where you'll have

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that option

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[Music]

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so to record your video just go

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here you hit take video it's very

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similar

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actually to how it plays out in our

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web app where you just let it roll you

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hit stop

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and it's saved and uh and then to

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to locate this you can either just

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open your open your file manager

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and go to i believe it's actually under

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pictures yes

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they put under pictures might be under

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videos too no

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just under pictures camera roll and

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there you go

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uh this is where you'll find it um

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alternately you could just go down here

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to this lower corner again this is kind

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of like the

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kinda like the android um

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like like the android camera app and

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then you go over to the upper right

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the three dots right there open folder

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and then there you go that'll also take

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you straight here

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so then what you're going to want to do

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to upload this to bike cloud as you hit

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the plus button file video

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uh and then you can just you know you

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can just navigate you know pictures

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camera roll alternately what you could

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also

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do to to navigate to where your file is

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in here

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is uh you know you've got like the uh

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the path to to this folder right here

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just click into this empty space next to

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it

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brings this up copy it go over to

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where we are opening again here i'll

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just start from this from scratch here

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

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clipboard

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hit the plus hit file video

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select in here paste it there

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and hit enter and then that is going to

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take us straight to our camera roll

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without having to navigate there

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so then we find the video we want hit

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open

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upload

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and let this upload

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then we can give it a name if we so

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choose

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and head over to our content management

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to uh to find it there

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while it is encoding so this is it right

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here

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and while it's encoding we're not going

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to see a thumbnail there but

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that's how you can use the the windows

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default camera app to upload a

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video or record a video and then upload

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it to vip cloud

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let us know if you have any questions

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