Freeware for Recording Audio&Video

Blackback Gull, If you're using Windows, check for Windows Movie Maker.  In Win10, it's name was changed to Photo App, but the functionality to create videos easily is still there from what I hear.

Also, I hear it stopped being supported and was "removed" during a recent Win10 update (which, when I heard that I was floored that MS would do something like that, not very customer friendly they are, are they).  But, apparently you can still download it from archives, but just search for sites the link to it safely so you don't get viruses and trojans etc.

I actually saved the install files for Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7 which works on 7 to 10, just in case I ever lose my ability to use the Sony Movie Studio/Vega suite I bought years ago.

Hope that helps.  Oh!  Also, there are also a lot of audio/video programs out there that are not free, but are pretty to very cheap to buy, like under 60 bucks to as cheap as 10 bucks so just do a good search and read the reviews and I'm sure you'll find something cool.

Good luck in your search! 

I see that LifeCam is a webcam. and if is old it's resolution will be very poor. You will have plenty of time with the lockdown to order a good musician's camera

Not top notch but we do a lot of recording for and of our grandkids using our cell phones.
Neither is a fancy phone, but the kids seem to like it.

I bought a zoom H something a couple months back, but have yet to use it for anything.
It does do a better job at audio recording. Guess it depends on what your goal is.

I have the Zoom H5. Just poster in your other thread. It's a great portable solution when you just want to throw down an idea and dont want to use a pc. And can handle a vocal mic and line in as well. I love mine.

FWIW, here's what I used to record the recent videos I've posted in the "Videos & Performing/Videos & MP3s by Members" section of the forum.

Microphone: either an AKG P220 (borrowed from my son) or and AKG P420 (purchased by me last week). Both of those are large diaphragm condenser (LDC) mics, and all of the singing and most—and sometimes all—of the guitar-playing was captured via that way.

Mixing board: a Mackie PROFX8 8-Channel Mixer into which the mic was plugged (and for some of the videos, into which the guitar was also plugged). Output from the mixer was to a Bose L1 1S system with B1 bass module in the same room.

Video and sound capture: this might be of interest to any Mac-based folks here. All the video and sound was through my 2013 13" MacBook Pro laptop using Quicktime software (comes free with all the Macs) -- so the sound was what my laptop was hearing in the room through its mic. I also have Final Cut Pro on the laptop, which is a professional-level video editing program, but I was looking for quick-and-easy, hence Quicktime.

I could have (and probably should have) used my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface, which plugs into a computer through USB, to input the mic (or the board's) output directly into the laptop, but hey, I didn't. Next time, I will. I'm fairly sure that would have enhanced the sound quality.

So, in short, I've found that just using a laptop and a decent mic can give you a 'listenable and watchable' video. Professional quality? Nope, but good enough for most situations. Decent mics? The AKG condensers are reasonably priced in the $150 - $300 range -- really high-end LDC mics can run into thousands of dollars, but (as with guitars) there's the problem with the law of diminishing returns: a $2,000 mic doesn't sound ten times better than a $200 mic. Not to my aging ears, anyway.

And y'know what, most phones nowadays have decent cameras and mics built in, and could probably do the job well enough too...

@sleigh I'm very keen on the Scarlett. Probably number 3 on my current gear wishlist. 🙂