Apple Video System User Manual

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Copy Video Display command

To capture the current screen image by copying, choose
Copy Video Display from the Edit menu or press x-C.

Important

When you use Copy Video Display or press x-

C, the current screen image is copied to the Clipboard. The
image is not saved on a disk. (To save an image that’s on
the Clipboard, you must paste it into a document or the
Scrapbook.)

Capturing movies

Before capturing a movie and saving it on a disk, you may
want to choose a compression rate so that the movie takes
up less disk space (but is of lesser quality), following the
instructions in “Using Compression,” below. If you don’t
want to choose a compression rate just yet, go on to
“Recording” on the next page.

Using compression

With compression you can store movies in a much smaller
space than they would normally require. To use
compression, follow these steps before you record a movie:

1

Choose Preferences from the Setup menu.
The Preferences dialog box appears.

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