What do you mean by "cheap colour camera"? Do you mean a camcorder? putting together the same basic setup so hopefully I'll be able to use it for video conferencing. My main problem is that I can't figure out how to use the ATI video capture to work with something like Netmeeting. My other problem is that my camera won't stay on If the record button isn't pressed on it in 5 minutes, it shuts off. Not sure how to solve that one either. I hope yours doesn't have the same problem.