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Virtual Dub
You can also capture high quality video with
little to no frame loss with Virtual Dub. This is an excellent
freeware application which we will be looking at quite a bit throughout
this guide.
You can visit the
Virtual Dub Website
to download it. There is an optimized version available for P4
systems as well.
Virtual Dub is mainly a great video editing
tool but can be used to capture high quality video. First, we will
enter capture mode by selecting "Capture AVI" from the File menu.
Once in capture mode, select "Set custom
format" from the Video menu as shown above.
Choose your desired frame size and select
YUY2 as the format.
The next thing we will do is choose the
video compression by selecting "Compression" from the video menu.
One of the best "lossless" video codecs available is called "Huffyuv". It will capture
video practically with no frame loss whatsoever. You can
download the codec
here. You can further configure your desired codec by
clicking on the "Configure" button. The default settings (shown
below) for the Huffyuv codec are best.
Now that we have selected the video
compression to be used, it is time to select the audio compression by
selecting "Compression" from the Audio menu.
PCM 44100/16bit/Stereo is a good choice.
Now that we have made the proper setting for
both the video and audio, we are ready to capture! Just select
"Capture video" from the Capture menu. You will also notice
additional capture settings you can make such as stop conditions (based on
file size), drive selection and much more.
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