I'm too tired to figure this out on my own.

[vixalicious]

Ok, so my spanking new work laptop has a web cam.  I have never had one before, because generally speaking the last thing I want to put on the web is a video of me doing anything.

BUT.

One of my favorite bands is doing a project where they want people to sing one of the songs on their upcoming album.  "The idea is that you will pick one of our four voice parts, sing it into your computer via youtube, and we will assemble the audio and video and create a virtual choir version of the song"

So I want to play along, but I have NO IDEA how to make this work.  I know how to upload a video onto YouTube, but I don't know how to make the video in the first place - I know how to make audio files.  So I'm assuming I need some kind of software that works with the web cam to make a video, but I don't know what to use.  Help?  Any direction appreciated! 

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[moonbathe_skin]

OMG! When I got this computer I had no idea it had a "concealed" camera, it is built into the lid of the laptop so I nearly had a heart attack when I accidentally touched the software icon and my animated face popped up on the screen! The software appears to be called Bison Cam and the tiny camera seems to be Chicony.............so on yours is the software not already installed??

[vixalicious]

No, they usually take stuff that isn't necessary to the job off the laptop to increase space and keep us from doing stuff they don't want us to on them. But I know the camera works because it came on when I went into Skype.

[moonbathe_skin]

I think you may be able to capture a vid recording with Skype??