I am frustrated!

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I am pretty frustrated!
I bought both boinxTV Home and Istop Motion a while ago and was using my webcam, and it was working fine. Then I tried to make some bigger projects on Istopmotion and tried all still cameras I got and none worked, also the webcams I got weren’t recognized, just the isight camera.
Yesterday I spent 100 euros buying a new camera (Rollei Movieline SD-40) and went happy home to try it with either boinxTV or istopmotion, and was surprised it didn’t worked. Trying to search for some information in the forum, the information I got is that the new cheap cameras doesn’t have a live video output, and I think this is the problem of my camera. Reading the forum I read something about a HDMI adapter, but I don’t know if it will work if I connect my camera instead of using the USB cable, using the HDMI one together with an adapter.
I am getting really frustrated, because everywhere I read about animation softwares, the istopmotion is on the top of the list and usually it is written that all video cameras should work, and the one I bought is probably not going to be supported.

Well, my question is: if I connect my camera using a HDMI adapter, will the software recognize it, or I just spent money on something that is going to be worthless?
thanks in advice.

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Hello,

the problem with the new camcorders is, that they don’t provide an live video output via USB port. A lot of cameras used to have a firewire port to output the image, but this has changed over time. Your camera seems to have an HDMI output to connect it directly to a TV set. Does this HDMI output also do “live” output, or just the playback from tape? If the cam does a live output via the HDMI port, it is most certain that you can use it with a 3rd party HDMI capture card. We use the products from Matrox and they work very well with BoinxTV and iStopMotion:

http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo2_family/mxo2_mini/

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Hi,
Danke Achim!

Well, I am not really an expert about cameras, but when I connect it to my HD-TV using the HDMI cable, it shows the camera image like a webcam.
I was checking and found a webcam that seens to work with the istopmotion, it has not the quality I was looking for, but at least I don’t need to move my macbook the whole time while doing some little movies.

Danke für das schnell Antwort.