Hardware: PC Capture
- The lower left lists various external devices that provide a video
source for still image capture.
- Digitization completes the capture process, feeding large volumes
of data onto the host computer bus, for processing (e.g., by Photoshop)
and perhaps compression (e.g., using JPEG) prior to recording on a
mass storage device.
- Playback can occur later, with the image transmitted to display RAM
(that is often dual ported), processed or mixed with graphics or other
sources, and displayed on a monitor.