AVS Video Editor has a feature of capturing video from almost any video capture device connected to your computer. To capture video please click the Capture button in Start menu pane. After that AVS Capture Wizard will start. Depending on video capture device AVS Capture Wizard will look differently:

You can select three main tabs in the AVS Capture Wizard interface:

• Device - to configure the capture device used,
• Record - to manage the video file and format settings,
• Schedule - to set the additional file duration parameters.

For example, using a TV tuner as capture device, you should set the following parameters for video capturing at the Device tab:

1. Select Video Device from the list of the available video devices. It is the list of devices available in the system.
   Note: it's possible to change video device settings clicking the Configure button.
2. Set Video Input.
3. Set Video Standard from the list of available video standards.
4. Select Output size in the drop-down combo box.
5. Note that you can change Frame Rate clicking the appropriate button.
6. To modify audio parameters, first select Audio Device or mute it checking the appropriate check-box and select Audio Input and output Audio Format.

7. You can also configure TV Channels clicking the Configure... button at the bottom of preview window.

   

8. After you finished please click the OK button.

At the Record tab of AVS Capture Wizard you should specify output file and format settings.

Note: you can select between the original or custom format settings. In case you select custom video and audio settings, note the opportunity to modify video codec parameters clicking the Advanced... button. Here you should also enter the file name for your saved movie and set the location.

At the Scheduler tab you can select to split the output file by size or by time. Besides all, it's possible to set stop capture parameters for your convenience.

To start/pause/stop capturing please use the appropriate buttons. You can visually judge the capturing process with the help of Preview.

After capturing process is complete, you will need to import the captured material into AVS Video Editor. To do that click the Next>> button to go to AVS Video Editor import interface:

After that you can import your video into the Import Area clicking Add Video button. You can preview the imported files, using the Preview Panel. Click the Play/Stop button to start or stop file playback and the slider to navigate through the file.

To detect the scenes in your movie that is going to be imported, tic the Enable Scene Detection check-box. It might be useful if you plan to delete some scenes while editing or insert transitions inside your movie.

You will need to use the right pane to select the scene search search type - Detect Scenes Changes or Detect TV Commercials. As can be seen from the name of the search type, the first one is used for any videos, whereas the second one is used primarily to detect the TV commercials and cut them out.

Note: every scene containing commercial will be given a 'Commercial' caption.

When you selected all the parameters you can click the Import Media button to start the importing process or the Back button to return to the video editing.

You will see the importing progress in the Preview Area.

You can visually judge the importing process with the help of Preview. To cancel importing click the Stop button. You can also see the quantity of scenes found in the imported movie.