User`s guide

Capturing Video 37
To capture a stream of video and audio
1 Click the Record Video button in the Digital VCR.
The ATI Video Player software starts recording video and
audio.
2 Press SPACE or click the mouse button when you are
finished capturing.
3 Name your file and click the Save button to save your
recording.
To capture a sequence of frames
1 Click the Capture Sequence button in the Digital
VCR control panel.
2 Click the Capture Frame button in the Capture Sequence
window each time you wish to capture a frame.
3 Click the Finished Capturing button when you are
finished.
4 Name your file and click the Save button to save your
sequence.
The quality of the video that you capture depends on the
following conditions:
• speed of your system (CPU)
• amount of system memory (RAM)
• performance of your hard disk
• size of the video capture window
• choice of video codec (encoder-decoder):
For information on setting up capture files, see VCR Setup and
Advanced VCR setup in
Advanced Setup on page 43.
YUV9
Produces the best quality, but uses the
most memory.
VCR 1
Requires a Pentium 166 or faster, and
dramatically reduces disk space
required.
NOTE
Audio is
not
captured in
this mode
.
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