Quote Originally Posted by William Thomas View Post
rob,

do you mean leave the cams on when you are not podcasting at all...like when you are sleeping???? if so i cant see any reason to do that. of course cams stay on during podcast but thats it. i have a canon gl2 as well and i dont use the firewire i use the a/v connection. no problems. Not sure really what you mean by cams staying on all the time ....i can think of no reason to do that. maybe someone can enlighten me to what the advantage is.

good luck
I mean leaving them on all the time, 24/7. The reason for this is that I have Wirecast open 24/7 for re-runs, and Wirecast messes up when I turn off the camera and turn it on while its still open. The only way to avoid this is to keep the camera on. The other reason I ask is that I recently visited TWiT's Brick House Studio, and I notice they leave all 40 cams on all the time. Does this not ruin the camera?