how well does pd/gem/framestein do with writing video files. I would like to make a patch that takes an incoming stream from a camera and reords to file like writesf~ but for video and sound. If PD can't are there other programs that will work for this
thanks

there's the pix_record object
only record .mov, without sound

You have to record the sound separatly and resynchronise it after

or if you are using windows and don't like pix_record, you can alternatively use this open source screen capture software: http://taksi.sourceforge.net/