Creative WebCam Center makes it easy to capture images and video with your Creative WebCam. You can start Creative WebCam Center in any of the following ways:

• Click Start, Programs, then Creative, Creative WebCam and finally, click on Creative WebCam Center.
• Right-click the Creative Cam Detector icon in your taskbar, and select Launch Creative WebCam Center. This icon appears if, during installation, you clicked the option for Creative Cam Detector to load automatically at Windows startup.
• Plug your camera into the USB port and let Windows auto-detect it. You can choose to start Creative WebCam Center in Capture mode from a popup window that appears.

Note
Creative WebCam Center automatically detects your installed model of WebCam, and disables any unsupported features in the user interface.

1. In the Creative WebCam Center window, click the Capture tab.
2. Click the Photo Resolution box and select the resolution that you want. If you want to capture a panoramic view, select Panoramic.
3. Click the Snap photo button to capture an image. Images are saved as files in the default media folder.
4. To view the images in the image viewer, double-click the image files in the Thumbnails/Details pane.

Note
The Panoramic option is only available with selected Creative WebCams.

1. In the Creative WebCam Center window, click the Capture tab.
2. Click the Video Resolution box and select the resolution that you want.
3. Click the Record button to start and stop video recording.
   Videos are saved as files in the default media folder when you stop recording.
   To view the videos in the video viewer, double-click the video files in the Thumbnails/Details pane.

With Smart Face Tracking, your camera automatically zooms in on your face during video instant messaging sessions, or when recording video.Smart Face Tracking has two tracking modes:

Continuous: The tracker continuously follows each face movement (Note: Avoid selecting this mode if there is rapid head movement as continuous tracking movement can result in jerky video).
Smart: The tracker waits until your head stops moving before framing your face.

You can enable Smart Face Tracking in the Face Tracking Utility. You can launch the Face Tracking Utility in the following ways:

• In WebCam Center, click Tools then Face Tracking Utility.
• Right-click the Creative Cam Detector icon in the System Tray and click the Face Tracking Utility option.
• Click Start, Programs, Creative then click Creative WebCam Features, and then Face Tracking Utility.

Note
Smart Face Tracking is only available with selected WebCams. You will not see the Face Tracking Utility option if your camera does not support Smart Face Tracking.

With the Pan and Tilt feature, you can achieve accurate WebCam monitoring. Your WebCam is capable of horizontal, vertical and diagonal panning in eight different directions. Select one of the following options to start controlling your WebCam's positioning directly from your computer:

• with WebCam Center:
  
  
  1. In Creative WebCam Center, make sure Smart Face Tracking is not enabled, and you are not in My Recordings mode.
  2. On the video pane, move your mouse toward the direction you want to view. An arrow appears.
  3. Click the arrow. Your camera view moves toward the direction indicated by the arrow.
  4. To bring the camera view back to its default position, move your mouse toward the center of the video pane, and then click the symbol that appears.
  
  
• with Pan and Tilt Control:
  
  
  1. Click Start, Programs then click Creative, Creative WebCam Features and then on Pan and Tilt Control.
  2. Click the arrow buttons to move your camera view.
  3. You can also navigate your camera view by pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard.

Note
DO NOT physically turn your Creative WebCam Live! Motion lens head. Manually moving the lens head may damage your WebCam or change the lens head's default position. If the latter happens, see Resetting your WebCam to its default position.