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re: recording live video I have a MacroSystem US VLab Y/C real time frame grabber. It does a thing called "interleaved" single frame record. It grabs in 24 bit, full fidelity. You have to make several passes over the source tape to get full 30 frames per second grabbing, but it works, and gives excellent image quality. I usually capture to RAM, and then after a capture run, between rewinds on the source tape, I transfer the frames to hard disk. I then can manipulate the frames individually, and eventually copy them to the PAR for output. The only drawback here is the disk space needed for the frames, and maybe the time involved in doing the grabs, although the VLab software makes it a relatively painless procedure, just kind of tedious.