Really buggy!!

I open the app, it automatically turns on my webcam. The app hides in the menu bar as an icon which is fine. Then if I click on any other open app and then click on the icon to open it it doesnt actually bring it up. NO matter how many time I click on it in a row it just wont open. Double clicking it doesnt open it either. The only way to open it is to hit command and then click on it. But then it takes up a lot of unnecessary room with a large rectangle around the webcam settings/viewer. Then you cant just click on any other app to bring that to focus since Camwiz stays in the foreground. You have to click the icon up top again to hide it. The toggles that hide sections of the app arent labeled so you have no idea what they do. The texture/background of the app makes the text hard to read. I would prefer a simple single color dark (or light) colored background with contrasting text. I do like the tuner features which allow you to adjust the saturation, brightness and contrast. I do not like the hidden way you have to view the recorded videos though. You click on the play (sideways triangle button) to see the videos and then you click on a video, and have several options to choose from, Info, Play, Export and Delete. I think it should automatically export them to your Movies folder in its own folder called CamWiz. But hey, I am just one person here. I hate it when apps import files (or keep files trapped) inside their own realm which then adds to storage use when you export them. Like with iPhoto and iMovie. It just doubles up the amount of storage that is used for no good reason. I say just make the apps have a list of some kind that indexes the files into the app so that it does the same exact thing as it already does yet does not double the amount of hard drive space you use!

All in all this is a nifty and very useful app. I like how you can set the recording time to automatically stop recording at whatever time interval you want. I think the many options buttons are a bit much. I think it should be all in one place. I also believe that the bundled options you can buy are good but I probably wouldnt end up using any of them except the motion detection.

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