Patent ID: 8233086

Claim:
A method for efficiently digitally capturing an analog video signal being outputted by a video generation system, comprising: a) inputting said analog video signal having a first video resolution format, a first frame rate and a first scanning mode into a video scaler device; b) inputting a set of commands to said video scaler device so that the scaler device transforms said analog video signal to produce an output digital video signal having a second video resolution format, a second frame rate and a second scanning mode; c) mixing said output digital video signal with the audio portion of said analog video signal at a computer having a video capture card, resulting in a digital video stream; and d) further processing said video stream so that it comprises a desired format, wherein said set of commands further includes a command to reduce the number of active lines in the output digital video signal from a standard number of active lines for the output digital video signal to a non-standard number of active lines for the output digital video signal.