# Multiple Camera instances at different resolutions
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-camera-instances-at-different-resolutions/259966
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 11, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-camera-instances-at-different-resolutions/259966 "2008-05-11T00:29:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ignitrix](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ignitrix)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-camera-instances-at-different-resolutions/259966/1 "2008-05-11T00:29:42Z")
Can you have multiple flash.media.Camera instances running at different resolutions? Take the following code for example:
[AS]\_camSmall = Camera.getCamera();
\_camSmall.setMode(320, 240, 30);
\_videoSmall = new Video(\_camSmall.width, \_camSmall.height);
\_videoSmall.attachCamera(\_camSmall);
\_videoSmall.x = 0;
\_videoSmall.y = 0;
this.addChild(\_videoSmall);
\_camLarge = Camera.getCamera();
\_camLarge.setMode(640, 480, 30);
\_videoLarge = new Video(\_camLarge.width, \_camLarge.height);
\_videoLarge.attachCamera(\_camLarge);
\_videoLarge.x = \_camSmall.width;
\_videoLarge.y = 0;
this.addChild(\_videoLarge);[/AS]
Both video feeds are properly displayed, however both of them are displayed at 320x240 instead of the first at 320x240 and the second at 640x480 (note that if I change the first one to 640x480 then they both properly display at 640x480). The problem seems to be only if I try to run the two feeds at two different resolutions. Is this not possible?
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### Author:  [@ignitrix](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ignitrix)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-camera-instances-at-different-resolutions/259966/2 "2008-05-11T00:32:22Z")
Apparently, you can’t change the resolution of the video feed at all once you set initially. In the following code, I add a single video feed, and sometime later after this video feed is running, I take it all down, clean it up, change the resolution, and try to get everything up and running again:
[AS]\_camSmall = Camera.getCamera();
\_camSmall.setMode(320, 240, 30);
\_videoSmall = new Video(\_camSmall.width, \_camSmall.height);
\_videoSmall.attachCamera(\_camSmall);
\_videoSmall.x = 0;
\_videoSmall.y = 0;
this.addChild(\_videoSmall);
// Sometime later during code execution
this.removeChild(\_videoSmall);
\_videoSmall = null;
\_camSmall = Camera.getCamera();
\_camSmall.setMode(640, 480, 30);
\_videoSmall = new Video(\_camSmall.width, \_camSmall.height);
\_videoSmall.attachCamera(\_camSmall);
\_videoSmall.x = 0;
\_videoSmall.y = 0;
this.addChild(\_videoSmall);[/AS]
Although the feed does properly reappear, it’s at the resolution of the first feed. No change occurred! Lame…