Captions

MacWebCam lets you add up to four text messages to your video image window. Each caption can contain static text, timestamps, and datestamps.

You can select a font, size, style, and color for your text captions. There is also a transfer mode, which changes how the text is drawn on the video image. These text modes are:

• Normal: Text is drawn on the image without a background color
• Background: The background color is painted behind the text
• Invert: Uses the background color
• Gray blend: Uses the foreground and background colors to blend into the video image
• Shadow 1: Paints a 1 pixel offset drop shadow using the background color below the normal text
• Shadow 2: Same as Shadow 1, except the offset is 2 pixels down and to the right
• Overlay 1: Adds a 1 by 2 pixel boarder using the background color around the text
• Overlay 2: Adds a 1 by 4 pixel boarder using the background color around the text

The <COUNTER> variable is for testing purposes. It can be used to help figure out how many images are being streamed per/second. It is incremented each time the caption is drawn. Its usage is subject to change in the future.