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12. Windows video capture application Common procedures
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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.