Overview of the Capture Window

Overview of the Capture Window

The capture dialog has four elements:
  1. a menu containing all the available commands and settings

    capture_menu.gif

  2. a toolbar containing the most used commands for capturing

    capture_toolbar.gif

  3. a display area where the device drivers show the preview (video pictures in the selected frame rate) and (if supported) the overlay (the pictures from the source, in original frame rate).
  4. a status bar showing messages from the device drivers.
Basically, there are two kinds of capture: (single) frames and video. Single frames are captured as .DIB (device independent bitmap) files.

You can also simply capture single frames into an AVI by pressing the btn_123_.gif button: first click opens the file. All following mouse clicks will add the current frame of the video into your AVI.

Continuous video is captured as a sequence of pictures in an .AVI file.

The file types are fixed with VFW or DirectShow.