You can use EvoCam to publish a webcam with streaming video, view and record video from network cameras and video servers, create timelapse movies, or use it as part of your home security system with its configurable motion sensors -- these are just a few of the things you can do with this easy-to-use yet incredibly powerful webcam software.

EvoCam Features
• Supports multiple cameras simultaneously
• Supports multiple webcam windows, each with independent settings
• Supports virtually any QuickTime-compatible camera or video input device
• Supports a wide variety of network cameras and video servers
• Includes built-in web server with Java-based streaming video support
• Supports Bonjour for publishing your webcam on your local network
• Uploads images via FTP or SFTP to remote web servers
• Emails images as MIME attachments to an email account
• Saves images locally for use with Web Sharing or other web server software
• Archives all images to timelapse QuickTime movies and/or separate images
• Includes a Java webcam applet to display your webcam image on your web page
• Powerful schedules to control when EvoCam is online
• Unlimited motion sensors for automatic image capture when motion occurs
• Unlimited text captions and clocks using any font, size, style or color
• Unlimited picture badges using any image file, QuickTime movie, or dynamic image from a URL
• Unlimited QuickTime Effect items
• AppleScript support for control and customization

How EvoCam works
Using virtually any QuickTime-compatible video camera -- including an Apple iSight -- EvoCam periodically captures an image and uploads it via FTP to your web server. Need a security camera to remotely watch your home or business while you're gone? You can create one or more motion sensors, which will analyze the video for motion and capture a new image when motion occurs. EvoCam can also create timelapse QuickTime movies, compressing hours, days or weeks into seconds of video.

Built-in web server included
EvoCam also has a built-in web server, allowing you to connect directly to EvoCam using any Java-capable browser and view your webcam. The built-in server can be password protected, and you can customize the HTML to give your webcam a personalized look.

Intuitive user interface
EvoCam is an easy-to-configure, easy-to-customize webcam application. EvoCam uses true WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editing of text captions, picture badges, clocks and effect items. EvoCam allows you to edit these items in place over live video from your camera, continually updating the video display in realtime, even if you are moving or resizing items, editing text within a caption, or changing an item's color. With EvoCam's intuitive user interface, you'll be running your own webcam in minutes.

Webcam Example

Below, I'm going to show you an example of a home security webcam (to remotely monitor my home) I put together to demonstrate how easy it is to set up. In this example, I'm using FTP to upload images to a server. With EvoCam, you also have the option of using the built-in server. (see documentation in the EvoCam Help menu)

Uploading Images
I have the iSight on my MacBook Air running uploading images via FTP to a free hosting account I have. If you have a host for a website of yours, you can upload your images there.

DIsplaying Webcam

EvoCam comes with the necessary files needed for a webcam page. Just take the Java html and evocam.jar files and upload them into the root directory of your host account, or use your OS X internal Web server on your Mac, as I did in the example below.

I'm using the Leopard's OS X internal Web server on my MacBook Pro as a server for a website. (see instructions here) I just dropped the Java html and evocam.jar files in the following "Documents" folder and then turned on Web Sharing in the Sharing preferences control panel.

HD > Library > WebServer > Documents > jwebcam.html & evocam.jar

You can access my live webcam at the following URL: http://bmer.servemp3.com/jwebcam.html

You can also add the webcam to a page on your current website by inserting the following Java applet code. This is the same HTML code embedded in my jwebcam.html file.

Note, the paths have to be set with your domain name.

Additional Webcam-Related Info

• Creating Timelapse WebCam Movies on a Mac
• EarthCam Live Webcam Network
• Random Live Webcams
• Webcam List
• Webcam Search
• Webcam Central
• World of Webcams

If you have any questions setting a webcam up, feel free to email me or Evological support.

You can download a 15-day trial copy of EvoCam here.