The c920 works find with all the other apps I've tested. It's just that you have to use it in a slightly different way. So it's not that you can't use iMovie with it. You simply have to use another app like say QuickTime player, like I'm using, to record video and then import that video into iMovie. In other words you can't use that button in iMovie to record video directly into iMovie. So one catch is that the c920, and I thing all external webcams, don't work with iMovie directly. So you get a good comparison between using all of the MacBooks' native stuff and using the Logitech camera instead. I'm using the microphone in the c920 in this case and before I was using the internal microphone. I'm using QuickTime player to record in both cases. So here I am using the c920 hooked into the very same MacBook Pro. So this is me using the FaceTime HD camera built into my 13 inch MacBook Pro from 2014. I'm going to use both the FaceTime HD camera and the c920 hooked up to the same MacBook and you can see for yourself the difference in quality. Using that I can access all the different features of the camera and I can make really good recordings that rival those expensive cameras I used before. I will include a link in the notes to this episode at. I don't use the Logitech software that comes with it. That's partially because the software doesn't really give you access to all the features it does on Windows. Now despite the fact that it is Mac compatible a lot of people complain that it really isn't. So compared to the $1000 camcorders I was using before it's super inexpensive. That is why I bought a second one because it was so cheap and I wanted to have a backup. I also like the fact that it is relatively cheap. So it is compressing it on the camera so it is sending the compressed stream over USB2 meaning you can get 1080p video even though it is a USB2 peripheral. However what the c920 does instead of piping full raw video, or something close to it, over the cable it compresses it first in the camera to H.264 which is kind of the native format for QuickTime and using in Final Cut and iMovie and things like that. That is why a camera built into your Mac usually works a lot better for HD. See the problem with USB, particularly USB2, is that it is not quite fast and stable enough to pipe HD video over the little cable into your Mac. So the main thing is how it handles video even though it is a USB device. But in this case I really like this camera for several reasons. You can get one and then the next update of Mac OS10 it doesn't work anymore. A lot of them have had compatibility issues with the Mac and they don't tend to support their products very long. I'm not usually a fan of the Logitech products. I was using a MacPro so using one of the FaceTime cameras wasn't really an option. So what I really wanted was a very simple camera without all the extra camcorder parts of using tape or a SD card or something like that that just went straight into my Mac. It was a rather expensive solution but it worked just as well and maybe even a little better. Then I wanted to upgrade to a better camera so I upgraded to a Canon camcorder that cost north of a $1000 and it output HDMI, not Firewire, so I had to get a card for my MacPro that would take HDMI as input and then I was able to record directly to my Mac as well. So for years I used the Sony 1080P camera that did a great job. I like recording directly into the computer rather than going to tape or a SD card first. In the beginning I was using a Sony HD camcorder a lot that used Firewire to record directly into the Mac. I'm often asked about what camera I use to film these tutorials. On today's episode I want to talk about the camera I use to film these tutorials. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out The Logitech C920 Webcam at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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