Tech Note for Nerds

From The Frame Grab Tutorial: http://tvcrit3.tvcrit.com/content/view/58/102/.


Compare/contrast these two images. The top one is in Bitmap format (1,013 KB; may display slowly) and the bottom one is in JPEG format (51 KB). See any difference? We thought not.

Signal 30 capture in bitmap format.
Signal 30 frame grab in JPEG format.


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