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Video Framegrabbing Guidelines as PDF file
VIDEO FRAMEGRABBING
PROCEDURES
Ask the Lab Manager to open the Video Frame Capture room. She will power the equipment. Do NOT personally power up, or touch the cables! When the computer is powered up: • Insert your Zip disk into the Zip drive. • Select APPLE/PREMIERE 4.2.1. Note: if computer freezes, press Control+Command+Restart (upper right key on keyboard) and release. The computer will re-start. Launch Premiere and resume process as described above. If Appletalk is active,
a dialog box will appear. • "New Project Pre-Sets" dialogue box opens. Select "Offline Video Tape NTSC" and press OK. • A work area will now open within Premiere. Select FILE/CAPTURE/MOVIE CAPTURE. In the work area, place the cursor at the right corner of the work screen. Drag diagonally down to the right to get the video input pixel size you want--640X480 is common. • Turn to the middle
VCR, lower the tape window and insert your 1/2" video. Close the window.
If you still do not see the image, call Tammy. Otherwise: • Play your video. Just before you come to a part you wish to capture, click once in the "Record" box at the top of the "Source window. Without moving your cursor, click once to end the capture. Stay within a capture range of from several frames to 20 seconds for the video clip so the system is not overloaded. (Note that 640X480 X72dpi = 900K of data per video frame, which equals approximately 30 megabytes per second of video--which means that just 3 seconds of saved video will fill your Zip disk. So choose the video you will finally save to your disk wisely, sparingly). • The video clip you have selected now opens as a "Clip" window on top of the "Source" window. At the lower left edge of the "Clip" window is a horizonal scroll bar you can use to scroll to the exact video frame you wish to save to your Zip disk. • When you have scrolled to that frame, select FILE/EXPORT/FRAME AS PICT. A dialogue box will open. Name your video frame, navigate to the desktop, and doubleclick on your Zip disk icon. SAVE the video frame to your Zip disk. Nothing happens for 5-10 seconds, and then the frame appears as a third window. Click the "Close" box at the top left of this third window. • On the "Clip" (the second) window, scroll to a second frame within the clip. Choose a second or third frame, etc., as needed. • When you have finished exporting the frames you wish to harvest from the video clip, click the "Close" box at the top left of the "Clip" window, do not save, and play your video to capture another video clip. • Capture and Export additional frames as described above. • When finished, select
FILE/QUIT. • Navigate to the desktop.
• Remove your Zip disk. • Remove your videotape. • Leave the computer on. • Close both doors and inform Tammy that you have finished. Take your Zip disk to the Open Lab and bring up each frame within Photoshop.
For TA’s: Turn on power strip. Power up: Computer, Video monitor, middle VHS deck, Hi8 deck On Hi8 deck: push the "TV/Video" button. Plug external monitor into Hi8 s-video to monitor 8 gig array hooked to a ultrawise SCUZZI = capture at 30 fps, full field. Command + Option + P+R = zap the PRAM. In capture cable ouf of 1/2", into hi8, into capture board SVideo blue and green cables go out to computer.
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