Video capture

Video capture

Video capture is the process of converting an analog video signal—such as that produced by a video camera or DVD player—to digital form. The resulting digital data are referred to as a "digital video stream", or more often, simply "video stream". This is in contrast with screencasting, in which previously digitized video is captured while displayed on a digital monitor.

Capture process

The video capture process involves several processing steps. First the analog video signal is digitized by an analog-to-digital converter to produce a raw, digital data stream. In the case of composite video, the luminance and chrominance are then separated; this is not necessary for S-Video sources. Next, the chrominance is demodulated to produce color difference video data. At this point, the data may be modified so as to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and hue. Finally, the data is transformed by a color space converter to generate data in conformance with any of several color space standards, such as RGB and YCbCr. Together, these steps constitute "video decoding", because they "decode" an analog video format such as NTSC or PAL.

HardwareSpecial electronic circuitry is required to capture video from analog video sources. At the system level this function is typically performed by a dedicated video capture card. Such cards often utilize video decoder integrated circuits to implement the video decoding process.

Example

An example of the use of Vid-Caps is the recently released trailer for Activision's . Within hours of the trailer being aired during the NFL Draft on April 28, 2007, websites such as "Planet CallofDuty" had posted several versions of the 1 minute 37 second trailer so that fans of the Call of Duty series could attempt to extrapolate new features and facets of the game.

ee also

* Screencast

References

"Covergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide, Buying Into American Idol." Henry Jenkins. 2006 New York University Press.


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