Camera: It sounds like I go up, but it looks like I go down

[FMiguelez]

Hi guys.

I'm stumped and embarrassed to ask such a stupid question, but you guys with cams perhaps can tell me what's going on...

So these 2 Logitech C270 webcams work great for my Skype piano lessons, but the video looks very weird... I play a scale going up, but the video records it with me going down

Also, if I play like a b major scale, the KEYS of the piano look inverted/mirrored, so instead of seeing CDEFGABC you see CBAGFEDC going up, and it's a trip to see this.

This doesn't happen always. But it just did this past weekend, and I'm so annoyed my lesson was recorded that way. Of course the cameras were NOT upside down or anything else (I set them from my POV).

This never happened before... What's going on and how can I fix this??

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Place the cam above, not to the side. If from the side, from the right side.

[FMiguelez]

Place the cam above, not to the side. If from the side, from the right side.

Yes! I use 2 cams: one above and one to my right side. And this time both look mirrored...

Especially the one I placed on my right side: it recorded as if I was facing the other way and took it from the other side

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Weird.

[bkshepard]

Skype generally expects the camera to be in front of the person looking back at them. Thus, it creates a mirror image. I don't know if there's a way to turn it around in Skype, but what if you position the camera in front of the pianist. What you really need is that forward-looking camera capability like phones have.

[FMiguelez]

Weird.

I know!

Look here, I posted a snippet in YT:

Skype generally expects the camera to be in front of the person looking back at them. Thus, it creates a mirror image. I don't know if there's a way to turn it around in Skype, but what if you position the camera in front of the pianist. What you really need is that forward-looking camera capability like phones have.

But that's the thing... I see his piano correctly from the teacher's camera in the Skype session. And it only happened during this session with that new camera angle I tried.

In the video linked above, that's supposed to be my left hand playing a C major scale... I also should be facing the other way. Even the keys seem all inverted. This is a screen capture by ScreenFlow for the Skype lesson. The other camera that seems fine was a direct capture from that app.