Video Devices

No other contemporary message medium has the visual impact of video. With a video digitizing board installed in your computer, you can display a television picture on your monitor. Some boards included a frame-grabber feature for capturing the image and turning it into a color bitmap, which can be saved as a PICT or TIFF file and then used as part of a graphic or a background in your project.
Display of video on any computer platform requires manipulation of an enormous amount of data. When used in conjunction with videodisc players, which give you precise control over the images being viewed, video cards let you place an image into a window on the computer monitor; a second television screen dedicated to video is not required. And video cards typically come with excellent special effects software.