You don't even need a motion capture card or nonlinear editor, a framegrabber board, now easily available on the PC, is all you need. Some machines, like certain Apple Mac consumer models, even come with this feature built in. Some cards include the VLAB for the Amiga, the video tuner cards for the Mac and some PC graphics boards, and the Snappy VideoSnapshot. At the time of writing the original article, there was only one machine with a built in CCD camera, the Silicon Graphics Indy workstation. Nowadays, you can get a low cost Connectix QuickCam, in greyscale and colour, that fits on your parallel or serial port, both on PCs and Macs.
Some packages even come with software to make little animations.
If you capture single frames, you could use various commercial and shareware QuickTime and Windows AVI editing products to combine them to an animation, and add audio. Setting your monitor to VGA refresh at 60 Hz makes the output clearer with less scanlines running up and down. Many of these devices are very cheap to buy, and have many more uses, including business and school presentations. Efficient video compression formats like AVI and QuickTime make files much smaller and quicker to download, albeit somewhat still slow. There are also new products to serve the video in realtime.