Opening a video window on the screen
Using the Video Monitor program provided with your Macintosh, you can view video on the screen and capture a single video frame.
You’ll find the Video Monitor program in the Apple Extras folder on your hard disk. Refer to the Guide to Apple Extras, also in the Apple Extras folder, for additional information about Video Monitor.
Follow these steps to see video on the computer screen.
1 Make sure that a video device is connected to the video input port.
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If you need to connect a device, turn off both the computer and the video equipment first.
Open the Apple Extras folder on your hard disk and locate Video Monitor.
The Monitor window appears. If the video device is already on and is playing, its images appear in the window.
Turn on the video device and play an image (usually by pressing the Play button).
The video image appears inside the Monitor window. If you don’t see an image, continue with step 5. Otherwise, skip ahead to “Video Images and Memory Allocation.”
IMPORTANT If your monitor has a
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