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12. Windows video capture application

Common procedures

User Guide

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You can stop recording by selecting Stop Recording from the

Capture menu or

from the toolbar.

When you stop recording images, the status bar displays the

number of image files saved. For example, the message Wrote

31 files. indicates the video capture application saved 31

image files.

To record captured images as a video file

Before recording captured images as a video file you must

configure recording options by selecting Options from the Tools

menu, selecting the Recording tab, and selecting Record as Video.

See

Chapter 15. “Recording videos” on page 97

for all the details.

1 Select Start Recording from the Capture menu or from the

toolbar select

.

2 Enter the file name, select the location for saving the video file,

and select Save.
As images are captured by the Frame Grabber they are

recorded to the video file. The status bar shows the name and

location of the video file. The status bar also displays the

amount of time that the video has been recording and the

number of frames (or images) recorded.
When the size of the video file reaches the AVI file size limit

(see

“AVI file size limit” on page 103

) the video capture

application does one of the following:
• stops recording
• starts a new video file and continues recording

(

“Configuring video file recording options” on page 102

describes how to specify the file name)

• overwrites the original video file and continues recording.
You can pause recording by selecting Pause from the Capture

menu or

from the toolbar.

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