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Frame grabber

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Hardware used to pull one frame from a movie sequence taken with a camcorder and digitise it. Software can also be used with digital camcorders to grab an already digitised picture.

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A small file thats dropped into the acquire folder of programs such as Photoshop. Then you would go to Twain>Acquire and the computer would connect to the scanner or frame grabber and operate it from within the program.