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PART 2:
Capture
Capturing is the process of taking the signals from your video and audio sources and encoding them in a
format that is ready for streaming and recording.
If you followed the quick start guide, you're already capturing, streaming and possibly recording your sources.
The section of the guide helps you fine tune and troubleshoot the capturing process.
When using Pearl, you can stick to all the default capture and encoding settings, or you tweak them to set the
up exactly as you like.
You can capture a single source at once, capture multiple sources in a custom channel or even switch between
sources or groups of sources (layouts) while streaming and recording.
Techniques for creating channels to capture, stream and record a single source; to create custom channels
with multiple sources and multiple layouts; and how to switch layouts while capturing are all described in this
section.
The chapters in this section are:
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