Kimberley
Your question has triggered my curiosity and Premiere Elements Webcam gene.
I started to search the Internet and am looking at these articles that say "in so many steps" and you can convert
your digital camera into a webcam. Here is one from any...
How to Use a Digital Camera As a Web Cam: 12 Steps - wikiHow
I am starting to see if any of the suggestions really work.
We will be watching for your progress. With all the search for this, I made the discovery that my laptop built in webcam is
really SD and not HD as I thought the specs claimed. I was about to wage war on troubleshooting on why Premiere Elements and
its Add Media/Webcam and WDM were always giving me SD recordings instead of my expected 720p. It seems my laptop comes
in multi submodels with multi feature sets...lots of "or" and I was on the short side of the "or".
Always work with the computer's video card/graphics card up to date according to the web site of the manufacturer of the card or manufacturer of
the computer....the exception being the Premiere Elements 10 NVIDIA GeForce syndrome requiring roll back of the NVIDIA GeForce video card/graphics card driver to get Premiere Elements 10 to work.
We will work through the details of the Premiere Elements workflow when you are ready, especially those details related to the format being generated by the Webcam software. If "avi", not all avis are created equal. Avi is just a wrapper format. We will need to know the compression being used with the .avi wrapper.
ATR