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Sholom: >> I use the Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro for both still frame grabs and for motion video capture. It works well w/Windows and gives you 640 x 480 pixel images at 72 fps << >Isn't that very good? I mean, regular video is 30 fps, no?< Well, if it captured 640 x 480 pixels at 30 fps (60 fields/second), it *would* be–but in 640×480 mode, it only captures @ *2* fps! So that's fine for frame grabbing, but not so great for motion video… >Well, basiclly I need to be ablee to capture a frame from a VHS tape and print it out on an Epson Color Stylus.< For that, the Smart Video Recorder's fine! It'll give you reasonably good color accuracy and capturing single frames is pretty easy–you just click on the single frame icon in its window and it captures it, then go into your file menu and save single frame by whatever name you want. It only captures files in .DIB bitmap format, though–which PhotoShop 2.5 doesn't seem to recognize–but you can always rename it as a .BMP file (BTW, does *anyone* know why the SVRP doesn't offer .BMP as an alternate still format to .DIB?–I mean, they're pretty much the same…). >BTW, have you heard of a product which will do this attached to a paralell port?< Not offhand–I've heard of external genlocks (for outputting computer images to videotape), though, so I'm sure *somebody's* got a product that goes the other way. I just don't know names or how it works, for now. Best, Tim