Grabbing Video and Stills with
Avid Video WorkShop


  1. Turn on and insert your videotape into the VCR.
  2. Under the Apple menu -->, Open Avid Video Workshop.
  3. Under the Windows menu -->, open the Recording Window.
    This Window will allow you to control Video capture.
  4. To grab video, press the Record button
    Press Stop to end your grab.
    To grab stills, click on the camera icon.
  5. Avid Video Workshop will save all moving video clips in Quicktime format.
To see how to save a QuickTime movie file, see the QuickTime information pages.

Video Workshop saves grabbed and moving images in a special folder.

Your stills and moving images will be in the Recording Folder. The grabs will appear a number filess. For example untitled 1 though untitled 5. (Or how many movies or images you grabbed.)


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