As I described in a previous blog post, “Video Recording with Synchronized Slides“, we use a Canopus TwinPact 100 framegrabber to capture the presenter’s screen. This is recorded right along side video of the presenter speaking. The TwinPact 100 converts a VGA video signal to Firewire.

Recently I came across the Epiphan VGA2USB frame grabber. While simpler, it looked like it might shed features we don’t really need, while providing better video quality. We decided to order [snip...]
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